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Orient P. Riwu Kore, the winner of Sabu Raijua district election in East Nusa Tenggara on Dec 9, 2020. (JG Screenshot/Orient P Riwu Kore's campaign page on Facebook)
US Citizen Runs in an Indonesian Election and Wins
BY :YUSTINUS PAAT, DION BISARA
FEBRUARY 03, 2021
Updated at 07:17 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021]
Jakarta. A United States citizen has run for district head in Sabu Raijua, a region in one of Indonesia's poorest provinces East Nusa Tenggara, and managed to win the election with a wide margin in the strangest election mishap the country might ever see.
The winner, Orient P. Riwu Kore, 56, run with backing from former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, Defense Minister Pabowo Subianto's Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) party, and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the current ruling party, in the last year's regional election.