1999 Indonesian presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Indonesia between 20 and 21 October 1999. The President and Vice President were elected by members of the People's Consultative Assembly and 200 nominated members after the June 1999 legislative elections. Abdurrahman Wahid was elected president on 20 October and was inaugurated on the same day, while Megawati Soekarnoputri was elected vice president the following day. Background. In October, the People's Consultative Assembly made up of the People's Representative Council and 200 nominated members from the military and selected civilians, a total of 700, met to elect  the President and Vice President. There were initially four candidates for the presidency; Abdurrahman Wahid, B. J. Habibie, Megawati Sukarnoputri, and Yusril Ihza Mahendra. However Habibie refused the nomination from Golkar after his accountability speech was rejected by the MPR the day before election, while Yusril withdrew his candidacy on election day. Election day. On 20 October Abdurrahman Wahid, chairman of the PKB was elected, beating Megawati Sukarnoputri by 373 votes to 313, although her party (PDI-P) won the most votes in the legislative election and had one-third of the parliamentary seats. This triggered riots among Megawati's  supporters. The following day, Megawati was nominated by Gus Dur's party (PKB) as vice president and got elected, beating Hamzah Haz from the PPP by 396 votes to 284. This ended the street protests. This was the first and last democratically indirect presidential election in Indonesia and the first presidential election that did not feature a candidate from ruling-party (Golkar).