A top Indonesian court was set to rule Thursday on a defeated presidential election challenger's claims that the 2019 race was rigged against him -- allegations that sparked deadly rioting in Jakarta.
His lawyers have sought to overturn the official results that declared incumbent Joko Widodo the winner with 55.5 percent of votes, against Subianto's 44.5 percent. Subianto, who lost a similar court battle in 2014 when Widodo defeated him, has little recourse if the court rules against him again. Last month, peaceful protests against the official result by Subianto supporters erupted into two nights of street battles between police and rioters, leaving nine people dead and hundreds injured in the capital's worst violence in years.
This week, Amnesty International called for an independent probe into what it called"grave human rights violations" by police against protesters -- including beatings and"torture" -- and allegations that they were behind the killings of demonstrators.