Indonesia started deploying 240,000 police to provide security for tomorrow’s election as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono attempts to win a second five-year term, reports Bloomberg.

Voters will cast ballots at 450,000 polling stations stretching from Aceh, which borders India, to Papua, Indonesia’s eastern-most province near Australia. The election commission has prepared 1 million ink bottles to mark the fingers of the country’s 176-million-strong electorate after they vote.

Yudhoyono, 59, is running against predecessor Megawati Soekarnoputri and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, 67. The president was favored by 63 per cent of respondents in a poll conducted June 30 to July 2 by the Indonesian Survey Institute, compared with 20 per cent for 62-year-old Megawati.