A voter casts ballot at a poll station in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, July 8, 2009. Indonesians in Jakarta and most areas of the country headed to the polls Wednesday morning in the country's 2009 presidential election.

People wait in line to cast their ballots with their children at a poll station in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, July 8, 2009. Indonesians in Jakarta and most areas of the country headed to the polls Wednesday morning in the country's 2009 presidential election.

JAKARTA, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian voters arrived at polling stations on Wednesday morning one after another following the opening of Indonesia's 2009 presidential election.

In the capital city of Jakarta, same people lined up at a polling station TPS 4 in Menteng district, central city, to cast their votes.

"I came here at 7:30 a.m. to make preparations for the election, and the elections started at 8:00 a.m." a policeman told Xinhua.

After casting her vote, a young woman namely Dwita said she is already the 80th voter by 8:40 a.m., which meant that the voters were more enthusiastic this year's than before.

She said this election was very important for Indonesia's development in the future. The Indonesian people should elect a good leader to lead the country.

"We hope peace, stability and prosperity under the leadership of a good president," a contractornamely Aidi said.

Some voters said all the presidential candidates are old faces, and as people have seen their performances before, so they would vote in favor of the person who had good record.

According local TV, the election in other cities and villages in the country are also going on smoothly.

Most areas of the country's 33 provinces were set to open the election at 8:00 a.m. Western Indonesian Time (0100 GMT) and close at 13:00 p.m. (0600 GMT).

About 176 million eligible voters are going to pick the country's president and vice president for the period of 2009 to 2014.

The incumbent president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democratic Party will be challenged by Jusuf Kalla of the Golkar Party and Megawati Soekarnoputri of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the election.

According to the Indonesian election law, the individual candidate could be elected when he or she gets more than 50 percent of the total votes. If none of the three candidates get more than 50 percent in the first round of election, two candidates who got majority of votes will fight in the second round of election to be held in September this year.

Dozens of foreign observers' teams including some senior officials from 50 countries were invited to join hundreds of thousands of observers from local monitoring agencies registered with the General Elections Commission to monitor the elections.

Meanwhile, about 247,000 policemen had been deployed in the country to safeguard security of the election.

The quick count's preliminary results are expected at 3 or 4 p.m. on Wednesday.