(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) karta April 09 - Indonesians cast their votes in parliamentary elections held simultaneously across the nation which is the biggest democracy after India and the United States on Wednesday. Some 185.8 million voters spread across thousands of islands that stretch some 4800 km from east to west are registered to vote in the largest and most complicated single-day poll in the world (ANTARA) news agency reported. There are more than 545 thousand polling booths across the country. This year 15 political parties of which 12 are national and three are local are participating in the elections. In the parliamentary elections some 6607 candidates were contesting for 560 seats in the House of Representatives (DPR). In addition there will be elections to 132 seats of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) at the national level 2112 of the provincial parliamentary (DPRD I) seats and 16895 seats for the district/municipality-level legislative assemblies (DPRD II). Results are due on May 7 and 9. Indonesia holds its national general elections comprising the parliamentary elections on April 9 and then the presidential election on July 9 with a run-off election in September if no presidential candidate gets more than 50% of the vote
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