Edward Aspinall – In a posting immediately after polling day last week, Marcus Mietzner and I argued that having failed to win the election, it was now likely that Prabowo Subianto's ca

Rendi A Witular, Jakarta – Presidential frontrunner Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has reportedly secured most votes during the July 9 election in an area that is home to the headquarters of hard

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Sleman regency administration in Yogyakarta province has brokered a peace agreement between the heads of the El Shaddai Pentecostal Church and Muslim

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono swore he would not let foreigners meddle with Indonesia's presidential election dispute, ahead of a visit to the country by former US presid

Jakarta – If one asks why the country's corruption index score remains disappointingly low despite the hard-fought campaign against graft over the last decade, the answer is, among othe

Roanne Van Voorst – It's the day before the Presidential elections. Ibu Oda grins when she reaches deep in her handbag and takes out an envelope.

Jakarta – The strategic Development and Policy Research Center (Puskaptis) has refused to attend an audit by the Association of Indonesian Public Opinion Surveys Firms (Persepi).

Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Public Opinion Surveys Firms (Persepi) completed its audit of the Strategic and International Studies-Cyrus Network (CSIS-Cyrus), Indikator Polit

Jakarta – A senior member of Prabowo Subianto's election team has said that the award-winning US journalist Allan Nairn will be reported to police for publishing a series of articles de

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Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The campaign team of Gerindra Party's presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto filed on Monday a police report against Akbar Faisal, a campaign team member of

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Rieka Rahadiana & Neil Chatterjee – Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo indicated he is open to other parties joining his coalition as signs of discord appear in opponent

All across the country, indications of foul play have broken out like a rash during the vote tabulation phase of the election, which has seen presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto, a di

Max Lane – According to the majority of polling institutions that carried out "quick counts" on 9 July, Joko Widodo won 52-53 percent of the vote in the Indonesian presidential election

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Angga Yudha Pratomo – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto held a press conference after attending a declaration of a permanent coalition at the Proclamation Building in Central Jaka

Haeril Halim/Arya Dipa, Jakarta, Bandung – As the General Elections Commission (KPU) continued with its tabulation of the July 9 presidential election results, many have reported allege

Jacqui Baker – Three institutions take centre stage this week: the national election commission [KPU], the elections supervisory body [Bawaslu] and the national police [Polri] as the Ju

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Fransiska Nangoy and Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia's young democracy faces its biggest challenge since emerging from decades of autocratic rule 16 years ago after both candidate

Sam Reeves, Jakarta – Indonesia faces a long period of uncertainty after last week's disputed presidential election, analysts warn – raising fears for Southeast Asia's top economy as gr

Jakarta – The Gerindra Party Jakarta-chapter central executive board chairman, Muhamad Taufik, said candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa won the presidential election in Jakarta

Helen Brown Indonesia and wires – The campaign team for one of Indonesia's presidential contenders has called on former US President Bill Clinton to not visit the country while vote cou

Hamish McDonald – Will a vote away from elite patronage-based leadership ease Indonesia's often-touchy relationship with Australia?

Michael Bachelard – The strongman candidate for Indonesia's presidency, Prabowo Subianto, has established a "very good" relationship with the Australian government by partly promising t

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said that the next president will have to deal with seven cases of gross human rights violations yet to be resolved.

Jakarta – The Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has encouraged the National Police to adopt presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's concept of a "mental revolution", regardless of who

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – On election night in the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesians had the surreal option of tuning into alternative political realities.

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said that the House of Representatives' recent revision of the Legal Institution Law, known as MD3, has proven that the House was n

Rizky Amelia, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Saturday said it would question Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman and former president Me

Hans Nicholas Jong, Headlines – After two days of recapitulation from polling stations, recapitulation documents scanned and uploaded on the General Elections Commission's (KPU) website

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – With both presidential candidates claiming victory in Wednesday's election based on quick counts, and the deciding official res

Yeremia Sukoyo, Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two of Indonesia's preeminent reform organizations have called for citizens to be vigilant against electoral fraud

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – After being ridiculed by the public for using dubious pollsters to back up its claim of winning the July 9 presidential election, the camp of the Gerindra

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) has filed a report with the National Police on the alleged misrepresentation of

Hasyim Widhiarto and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Several Indonesian pollsters were on the receiving end of threats and intimidation on Friday allegedly due to their opposing findings re

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto scolded a number of journalists, from online to television, when he was about to be interviewed in his house in Bogor, West Java, just

Andrew Thornley – In the immediate aftermath of Indonesia's presidential election, there has been intense scrutiny of not only a rack of quick count results, but the institutions conduc

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's team has come out swinging in Indonesia's disputed presidential election, insisting it is ahead in the "real count" of votes, its opponen

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Observers have questioned the credibility of four pollsters who called Wednesday's presidential election for Prabowo Subianto by the narrowest of mar

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Imparsial has lambasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for not taking into consideration the quick-count results of credible pollst

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Presidential frontrunner Joko "Jokowi" Widodo met on Thursday with dozens of foreign journalists and correspondents in Jakarta in his first post-election press c

Yohanes Sulaiman – Despite an ineffectual campaign by Indonesia's Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Jakarta governor Joko Widodo won Indonesia's presidential election, according to

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Jakarta – The White House has congratulated the people of Indonesia on a successful presidential election that saw strong public participation and high voter turnout on Wednesday.