JAKARTA: Tens of millions of Indonesians were voting Wednesday in the country’s first nationwide regional elections, the latest step in years-long efforts to strengthen democracy following the end of authoritarian rule.

About 100 million voters are eligible to elect 269 provincial governors, district heads and city mayors, with polls taking place in around half the local administrations of the world’s third-biggest democracy.

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