Indonesian police have secured the General Elections Commission (KPU) and authorities are warning police supporters to stay at home when it declares the winner of the presidential election.  Jakarta governor Joko Widodo is expected to win with a comfortable margin of three to five percent.

But Widodo’s opponent, former general Prabowo Subianto, has signaled he won’t accept the results.  Subianto’s team said it would file a police report against the KPU for proceeding with the count without fully investigating Subianto’s allegations of rampant vote-rigging.

“A legal challenge of the results is virtually inevitable, on actual or trumped-up allegations of electoral fraud,” said Jeffrey Neilson, the Indonesia coordinator of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney.

Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – whose party supposed Subianto – said, “Conceding defeat is noble,” clearly suggesting that Subianto should respect democracy and accept the results of the election.