维多多赢得印度尼西亚总统大选

Joko Widodo, the reformist governor of Jakarta, has been elected as the next president of Indonesia, capping a meteoric rise for the 53-year-old furniture salesman turned mayor.

雅加达首都特区行政长官、改革派佐科•维多多(Joko Widodo)被选为印尼下任总统，从而令这位曾经的家具推销员火箭般的升迁历程达到顶峰，他今年53岁，是雅加达的市长。

The election commission in the world’s third-largest democracy announced on Tuesday that Mr Widodo had beaten his only challenger, former general Prabowo Subianto, by 53 per cent to 47 per cent, with more than 130m votes.

印尼选举委员会周二宣布，维多多以53%的得票率、总计逾1.3亿的选票击败了唯一对手、曾任将军的普拉博沃•苏比安托(Prabowo Subianto)，后者获得了47%的选票。

“This is a victory for all the Indonesian people,” Mr Widodo said after the results were announced. “I hope this people’s victory will pave the way to an Indonesia that is politically independent, stands on its own feet economically and preserves its culture.”

选举结果公布之后，维多多表示：“这是印尼全体人民的胜利。我希望这次人民的胜利能够为政治上独立、经济上自主并保留原有文化的印尼铺平道路。”

The news came after an emotional Mr Subianto said he would reject the results on the grounds that the election was “not fair, not just, not clean”.

就在这一消息传出之前，十分情绪化的苏比安托曾表示会拒绝接受选举结果，因为选举“不公平、不公正、不干净”。

The self-styled strongman has three days in which to lodge a formal protest with the Constitutional Court but analysts dismissed his attack on the electoral process as unfounded.

这位自称强硬的人还有三天时间可以向宪法法庭(Constitutional Court)提出正式抗议，不过分析人士认为他对选举过程的攻击是毫无根据的。

“Mr Subianto is clearly struggling to accept defeat after a decade-long struggle to win the presidency,” said Paul Rowland, an election expert in Jakarta. “This is the best-run presidential election that Indonesia has ever seen.”

维多多是首位来自印尼严密的上流社会圈子之外的总统，他此次胜选点燃了人们心中的希望，希望他能为这个东南亚最大经济体引入急需的改革。

The first president to come from outside Indonesia’s tightly knit elite, Mr Widodo’s election victory has sparked hopes that he will be able to introduce much-needed reform of southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

尽管苏比安托团队对维多多的抹黑令他经历了一场艰难的选战，但他谦卑的形象、在地方政府改革的成绩以及毫不贪腐的名声都令他成为印尼最受欢迎的政治家。

Wijayanto Samirin, an economic adviser to Mr Widodo, said: “Mr Widodo will have the guts to make dramatic changes in policy because he is not weighed down by vested interests.

对苏比安托强硬外交措辞颇为担忧的外国投资者表示，维多多行胜于言的风格有助于印尼政府应对十分棘手的结构性问题，比如地域性贪腐、糟糕的基础设施、以及今年规模估计达210亿美元的燃料补贴法案——该法案是印尼财政赤字预计会达到2.4%的关键原因。

“But he must move quickly to announce and implement reforms in his first year, while he still has momentum.”

由于期待维多多会改变印尼前景，今年印尼金融市场已经回暖，雅加达证券交易所指数上涨了20%，卢比兑美元汇率上涨了5%。

Mr Widodo’s humble image, record of local government reform and corruption-free reputation has made him Indonesia’s most popular politician, despite a bitter campaign by Mr Subianto’s team to discredit him.

不过，分析人士警告说，由于在高层的政治经验太少，今年10月份维多多上任后将很难满足人们的过高期望。