INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo looks set to be re-elected according to unofficial results announced hours after polling closed gave him a 10 per cent lead.

The election was billed as a “race to the right” with the two main candidates – Mr Widodo and former army general Prabowo Subianto – accused of pandering to Islamist conservatism.

More than 192 million people were eligible to vote for 245,000 candidates with 20,000 local and national lawmakers selected. 

Indonesians had just six hours to vote in one of 809,500 polling stations across the country.

It was the first time the country had held the presidential, parliamentary and regional elections at the same time.

Accusations of ballot rigging are being investigated after footage circulated on social media which appeared to show thousands of ballot papers at a warehouse in neighbouring Malaysia – many of them allegedly marked in favour of President Widodo.

Mr Widodo of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) first came to power in 2014 when he won the presidential contest beating the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) candidate Mr Subianto.

Final results are set to be announced in May.