The country’s current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, called upon both Mr Prabowo and the likely winner, Joko Widodo, to cool the heated political environment in the lead up to the Electoral Commission’s  declaration of a result, which is scheduled for Tuesday.

But team Prabowo instead increased the pressure on the commission, saying the election counting agency would risk committing a crime if it did not delay its announcement of the result until fresh elections could be held in a number of areas.

“I call on all [regional] electoral commissions to do your jobs according to the oath you made before the election that the process will be clean,” Mr Prabowo said late on Sunday.

“The election monitoring agency [Bawaslu] has recommended that the election commission should re-stage the election [in several areas]; if that’s not complied with, it’s a crime.

“I question the legitimacy of this process. It might lead to a situation where the process will be regarded as invalid.”

In Jakarta, Bawaslu has suggested that the Commission check results from 5802 polling booths around the city after some people were found to be voting outside the area where they lived.

Bawaslu officials earlier described such inconsistencies as “technical” problems. It’s not uncommon in Indonesia for people to be ordered to vote again, but they rarely change the result of an election.

All credible “quick count” polling agencies and a crowdsourced, online version of the official count, kawalpemilu.org, show that Mr Joko, known universally as “Jokowi,” won convincingly.

The online vote-aggregator suggests Mr Joko took 52.8 per cent of the national vote.

If those counts are correct, about 3.6 million votes would need to change from Mr Joko’s column to Mr Prabowo’s to change the result.

Mr Joko said there was no need for the Electoral Commission to delay its announcement.

“Why? What’s wrong? Nothing’s wrong. Why should it be postponed?” he said.

The Electoral Commission chief, Husni Kamil Manik, insisted on Sunday that the results would be made public, as scheduled, on Tuesday.

But Mr Prabowo’s “success team” secretary, Golkar politician Idrus Marhan, accused anonymous people of carrying out a “massive movement” of votes away from Mr Prabowo to engineer the result of the election.

And Mr Prabowo’s political right hand man, Fadli Zon, said his team would certainly take the result to the country’s Constitutional Court for review.

Asked if he was questioning the credibility of the Electoral Commission, Mr Fadli said: “Of course we are”.

“We have gathered so much evidence of cheating in so many provinces in the election process,” he said.

It’s understood Mr Prabowo’s Great Indonesia (Gerindra) party, will present its evidence on Monday.

Mr Fadli dismissed the kawalpemilu website as being “made by Jokowi’s team”.

Mr Prabowo’s team has previously requested that thousands of its supporters attend the announcement at the Electoral Commission on Tuesday to “secure” it.

But his team also appears to be fraying. A former constitutional court chief judge, Mahmud MD, who joined the Prabowo camp, has now urged supporters not to go to the announcement on Tuesday.

The risk of rioting or unrest following the planned Tuesday announcement is also reduced because on the following day, Muslim Indonesians -  80 to 90 per cent of the population - embark on the Idul Fitri holiday, which involves spending time with family at their home villages