Hannah Beech – At first glance, it hardly looked like a vision of democratic perfection.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The candidates spent Tuesday, the final day before their fates are decided, keeping busy, but with very different, and somewhat chara

Muhamad Al Azhari & Ardian Wibisono – The business community welcomed quick-count poll figures suggesting that incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, had easily won a second

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – An official at the Attorney General's Office (AGO) said while prosecutors were investigating nine suspects in the Nasruddin murder case, police were explorin

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Early unofficial results in Indonesia's presidential election have Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono being returned to office for a second five-year term.

Jakarta – The majority of votes made at a polling station near the residence of presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla in Central Jakarta have been won by his rival, incumbent President Sus

Febriamy Hutapea – "Everything just goes on as usual. Nothing's changed," Muhammad Riskonhasan, 22, said.

Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri won the most votes from her polling station in Kebagusan, South Jakarta, on Wednesday morning, but some people registered to vote failed to turn up.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Febriamy Hutapea & Ferry Irwanto – The Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that eligible voters not on the final voters list for

Novi Christiastuti Adiputri, Jakarta – Scores of people from the Indonesian Youth Front for Struggle (FPPI) demonstrated at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta on Tuesday

Jakarta – Total investment of US$7.3 billion (inward and domestic) in the first semester indicated brighter prospects, although lower than figures for last year, the Investment Coordina

Olivia Rondonuwu and Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Complaints of voter list irregularities by the two challengers for Indonesia's presidency soured the mood on the eve of elections on Tuesd

Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – A group in Mimika, Papua, blockaded the entrance to the local General Elections Comission (KPUD) office on Monday as the organization has still not announc

The presidential election campaign has drawn criticism for being bereft of debate on specific social, economic and political policies.

Dian Ariffahmi – Indonesia tops a lot of global lists: It is the world's largest archipelago; it has the world's largest Muslim population; and, unknown to many, it is also one of the l

Eben Kirksey – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said improving relations with Indonesia will be a priority of the Obama administration.

Jakarta – Indonesia will launch a new system of independent certification for all timber exports to combat widespread illegal logging, the forestry minister said Monday.

Judi Prasetyo, Jombang – Workers from the Independent Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI-Independen) have agreed to boycott the coming July 8 presidential elections by

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Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's rivals in next week's presidential election claim the incumbent is clutching at straws to retain his presidency, after Yudhoyono's recent

Jakarta – A survey released Saturday has revealed presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla and his running mate Wiranto benefited the most from the series of televised debates ran for the fir

Febriamy Hutapea, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Presidential candidates, politicians and analysts broadly welcomed Monday's Constitutional Court ruling aimed

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – The fast-deteriorating Transjakarta busway system has forced Jakarta resident Ratih Puspitasari back to using taxis to commute.

[The following article is compiled from an article by Dominggus Oktavianus and reports by Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono. It has been translated by Data Brainanta.]

Jakarta – Indonesia's consumer confidence index rose to its highest in 4 years in June, boosted by spending ahead of a presidential election and a resilient economy, a central bank surv

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – A new regulation which lays down a one-stop service for the processing of investment licenses is a step forward in making Indonesia more attractive, but it a

Daniel Ten Kate and Arijit Ghosh – Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is projected to win a second five-year term with an enhanced majority after the resources-rich nation o

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Just over a decade ago, mobs torched buildings across Indonesia's capital in an uprising that toppled a 32-year military dictatorship.

Tom Benedetti – Legislative election results in April indicate that incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will likely win Wednesday's presidential vote in Indonesia.

Ferry Irwanto – There is an old local saying that bureaucrats will always turn something simple into something complicated.

Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – The five men and one woman vying to become president or vice president in Indonesia's election on Wednesday are familiar faces.

Jombang – Thousands of workers have declared their opposition to participating in the July 8 presidential elections.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is still the favorite to win next week's presidential election, says the latest survey by the Indonesian Survey Institute

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court announced Friday the media were allowed to publish any election-related news during the campaign-free period between July 5 and 7, prior to the July 8

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Sealing a political contract with a labor association is no guarantee of automatic support from the voters that constitute that group, a discussion heard Frid

Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – The police and the general public are not ready to be partners in establishing community policing, with the former still lacking accountability and tending to act

Jayapura – Dozens of employees of the state-run RRI public radio station staged a rally in front of the Papua People's Assembly (MRP) office Friday, protesting a change in leadership at

Jakarta – ICW's head of public service monitoring division, Ade Irawan, said here Friday that his team had found discrepancies amounting to US$127 million during last year's haj pilgrim

Joint statement by the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras)

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has played down the importance of an independent Corruption Court, stating it was "not urgent" to protect it with a government re

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Megawati Sukarnoputri, who has placed well behind Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in recent polls, has blamed the incumbent president's "selective" policy on combati

Dicky Christanto and Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Jusuf Kalla criticized his rival Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his frequently aired campaign ads calling for a single-rou

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Megawati Sukarnoputri's replacement at the helm of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle may not necessarily come from the Sukarno family line, the matr

Agus Maryono and Oyos Saroso H.N., Purwokerto, Bandarlampung – Parents of students enrolling at state-run senior high schools have protested over the school enrollment system, which the

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Who should be blamed for the increasing violence against Indonesian migrant workers overseas? Foreign employers and user countries? The government?

Katrina Nicholas, Singapore – Indonesia's improving economic outlook has pushed it out of the world's 10 riskiest issuers of sovereign bonds, according to credit-default swap prices fro

Ed Davies & Sunanda Creagh – Presidential candidate Megawati Sukarnoputri on Friday defended her choice of a running mate accused of human rights abuses, saying that he had taken re

Jakarta – The retail sector is doing better than most, but weakened purchasing power could dampen demand, so 2009 full-year growth in sales could fall below 10 percent, despite double-d