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One person was shot dead in Papua city of Abepura, the scene of the 2006 riot which killed three police officers and one military personnel, in an attack at a police precinct hours before polls opened.Local police declined to identify the attackers or comment on the incident, which followed by seizure at the Cendrawasih University about three kilometers from the police precinct.Reports said about 100 people attacked Abepura police precint after threats to attack other police precincts in Jayapura circulating through short message service hours before the attack . The attack occurred at around 1 AM (14:00 GMT) forcing police to release shots to the mob which killed one person. At about 3 AM local time the attackers set the lecturers office of Cendrawasih University on fire and prevented fire fighters to enter the university compound. Police conduct search in the area on Thursday morning and reportedly have took control over the university but no report on how police took over security ...

INDONESIA goes to the polls today amid widespread confusion about new voting rules, chaotic organisation and warnings of corrupted voter lists.The general election, the third since the dictator Soeharto was deposed, is a huge undertaking involving 171 million registered voters who will decide on more than 800,000 candidates contesting national, provincial and district legislatures.There are more than 600,000 polling stations on the country's 6000 or so populated islands.The most important contest, the vote for 560 members of the national legislature, will have an important bearing on the presidential poll due in July. Opinion polls suggest President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Partai Demokrat will win at least 25 per cent of the seats, the threshold needed to run as president.Golkar, Soeharto's former party, and Megawati Soekarnoputri' s Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) are polling about 15 per cent while several smaller nationalist and Islamic parties show support b...

INDONESIA goes to the polls today amid widespread confusion about new voting rules, chaotic organisation and warnings of corrupted voter lists.The general election, the third since the dictator Soeharto was deposed, is a huge undertaking involving 171 million registered voters who will decide on more than 800,000 candidates contesting national, provincial and district legislatures.There are more than 600,000 polling stations on the country's 6000 or so populated islands.The most important contest, the vote for 560 members of the national legislature, will have an important bearing on the presidential poll due in July. Opinion polls suggest President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Partai Demokrat will win at least 25 per cent of the seats, the threshold needed to run as president.Golkar, Soeharto's former party, and Megawati Soekarnoputri' s Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) are polling about 15 per cent while several smaller nationalist and Islamic parties show support b...