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Michael Bachelard – All credible observers now agree that Joko Widodo has won the Indonesian presidential election and will be the first post-Suharto era ruler when he is sworn in on Oc

Erwin Sihombing & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Parliamentary watchdogs have lashed out at political parties supporting presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto over a move that will de

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Anxious observers of Indonesian politics had hoped that the winner of Wednesday's presidential election might enjoy a big margin – 5 per cent more.

Andrew Janes, Yudith Ho & Harry Suhartono – Indonesian stocks rose to a one-year high and the rupiah touched the strongest level in seven weeks after Joko Widodo said unofficial cou

Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner – Let's be clear about one thing: Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has won Indonesia's 9 July presidential election.

Natalie Craig – East Timor has never made a film, never told its story or seen the faces of its people on the silver screen – until this year.

Josua Gantan – Both presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo have declared themselves the winner of what had been the tightest presidential election in Indonesia's histo

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle presidential candidate Joko Widodo, the apparent winner of Wednesday election according to most quick counts, on Thursday called on the

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The ethics council of a pollsters' group in Indonesia will begin an investigation into two polling stations that reported results on the presidential elect

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko Widodo, who claims victory in Wednesday's election, says this year's race opens a new chapter for Indonesia as people have decided to set a new dir

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday appealed for calm from both camps in the presidential election, after each pair of candidates declared thei

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The Indonesian presidential election result was under dispute just hours after polls closed as both candidates, Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, claimed vi

SP/Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has refused to concede defeat in Wednesday's presidential election, claiming that based on quick count results by a

Andreas Jakobsen – Denmark has since 2004 supported an Indonesian police academy (JCLEC) where the country's controversial elite unit Detachment 88 is being trained to fight terrorism.

Jim Della-Giacoma – Indonesians will head to the polls to decide their next president today.

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Joko Widodo declared himself the winner of Indonesia's presidential election, beating Prabowo Subianto in what had been viewed

Jakarta – The vote count for the Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa (Prabowo-Hatta) presidential ticket at the army's Special Forces (Kopassus) complex in Cijantung, East Jakarta, far su

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Angga Yudha Pratomo – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto seemed furious on Wednesday July 9 after he invited media crews to his residence in the Bojong Koneng village area in Hamba

An academic specialising in West Papua says Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo is likely to be more Papua friendly than his opponent Prabowo Subianto.

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Rebecca Lake, Jakarta – England could hardly be any further from the Indonesian province of West Papua but for the exiled leader of the Free West Papua movement, Benny Wenda, the people

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Two public opinion polls released on Monday suggested that presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo could win Wednesday's presidential election, albeit wi

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Office supplies companies should stop stocking PaperOne copy paper, whose fibres come in part from high conservation tropical forests now being logged in In

Sally Whyte – Tomorrow's Indonesian election will be especially tense in West Papua, where activist groups are calling for a boycott of the poll, and some have been arrested by the Indo

Michael Bachelard – A credible new poll has injected hope into Jakarta governor Joko Widodo's presidential campaign, showing that he's rebounded from a slump to a moderately convincing

Makassar – Police in Sulawesi issued a deadly warning on Monday to anyone with plans to disrupt the July 9th presidential election: attempt to derail democracy and prepare to be shot on

Prabowo Subianto could end up as Indonesia's president by the end of the week.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid encouraging signs that eligible voters are enthusiastic to cast their ballot on July 9, the country's religious leaders on Monday urged their faith's followe

Chris Blake, Berni Moestafa & Jason Scott – In the evenings near Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's cattle farm in the mountains outside Jakarta, vendors with unso

John Garnaut – Australia has removed the name of one of Indonesia's most controversial Suharto-era generals from a visa black list, in case he wins tomorrow's presidential election.

Katherine Gregory – Free West Papua protestors have demonstrated outside the Indonesian consulate in Darwin as the Northern Territory's Indonesian community went to the polls.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Thousands of eligible voters were unable to cast their votes in Hong Kong on Sunday after the local organizer closed down the polling station while many aspiring

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The deputy chairman of Prabowo Subianto's Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) party, Fadli Zon, reported a popular online newspaper for defamation on Monday.

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – The State Place has denied rumors that Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto once assaulted outgoing President Susil

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy, Jakarta – Hundreds of angry migrant workers in Hong Kong staged a protest against Indonesia's Overseas Election Committee at

Jakarta – Scores of demonstrators calling themselves Indonesia without Militarism held another demonstration in front of the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Jl.

Jayapura – Two months after the fall of the New Order regime in 1998, a massacre occurred over the Papua on the island of Biak, Papua.

We would agree that the April 9 legislative election was hardly free of violations, which ranged from vote-buying to the denial of the right to vote.

Jakarta – A new study has shown that between the years of 2000 and 2012, the country lost 38 percent of its primary forest, with adverse effects on the nation's biodiversity.

Jakarta – Joko Widodo's central plan for developing education in Indonesia lies in his conception of a "mental revolution."

Jakarta – Regardless of who gets elected on Wednesday, the winner has to realize that there is much that needs to be done to ensure that the rule of law is upheld in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Exit polls at voting stations abroad are showing the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla presidential ticket is ahead in the overseas vote.

Erwida Maulia & Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Joko Widodo showed more confidence, eloquently explaining his food, energy and environment platforms in generally well-structured statements

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Saturday evening spoke like a man who was prepared to lead the nation should he come out victorious in the July

Jakarta – The extent to which human rights and democracy are upheld in Indonesia is a fine yardstick to measure how far the nation has progressed as a whole.

Jabbing his finger repeatedly in the air, presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto shouted to supporters in a packed Jakarta stadium that the corrupt had no place in Indonesia.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – With just three days left before the presidential election, the Regional Military Command (Kodam) XVII/Cendrawasih in Papua has raised the province's secu