Jakarta | Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is set to lodge a legal challenge against his loss to incumbent Joko Widodo after the worst political violence to rock Jakarta in two decades left six protesters dead and hundreds injured.

Prabowo, as Subianto is commonly known, appealed to his supporters on Wednesday night (Thursday AEST) to halt protests as he was seeking legal remedy against the official result confirming Widodo's win in the April 17 election. The former general was set to file an appeal with the Constitutional Court on Thursday, according to his spokesman Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak. Prabowo unsuccessfully challenged his loss to Widodo in 2014.

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