Jakarta – After securing seats at the House of Representatives, the winning legislative candidates for Jakarta said the newly changed electoral system had forced them to put extra effor

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Several political parties have threatened to quit a planned coalition with the Democratic Party (PD) and form an entirely separate alliance after SBY named Bank

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has blamed many of the problems that occurred during April's legislative election, including voter list fraud and the low poll turnout,

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has fractured the field ahead of registrations this weekend for Indonesian presidential elections in July.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite an aggressive push by the Democratic Party to forge a coalition with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the latter is still holding

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – The secular party of Indonesia's president tripled its share of the vote in parliamentary elections and support for religious parties nose-dived – a sign of ho

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Eurico Guterres, the pro-integration militia leader who terrorised East Timor as it voted for independence, has failed to win a seat in Indonesia's parliament.

Joe Cochrane & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) of former President Megawati

Erwida Maulia and Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Having cut loose the Golkar Party, the Democratic Party is now unexpectedly approaching the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) announced late Saturday the final results of the April 9 legislative elections, with around 40 percent of the more than 171 million regi

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri has no other choice but to pick Great Indonesian Movement Party (Gerindra) head Prabowo Subianto as her running mate for the upcoming

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After much wheeling and dealing, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) on Thursday appeared to have finally put an end to the hopes of a Suharto

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) has dashed hopes of a deal with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), joining forces instead with the Democra

Jakarta – Agus Ohee, a resident of Harapan village, Jayapura regency, Papua, who was shot by local police during an attempted arrest, died in Sentani hospital on Wednesday morning.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – The arrest of Indonesia's anti-corruption tsar over a murder will have little impact on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's re-election campaign, analyst

Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Medan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's youngest son Edhie Baskoro and former president Megawati Soekarnoputri's daughter Puan Maharani look set to join th

Jakarta – Regional branches of the Golkar Party are refusing to acknowledge the pairing of chairman Jusuf Kalla with head of the People's Consience Party (Hanura) Wiranto as candidates

Jakarta – Learning from the voter list fiasco that marred the legislative elections, the government says it has taken necessary measures to prevent the problem from recurring in July's

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Autonomy in Aceh has allowed local political elites to trump Jakarta's authority.

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Jakarta – The country has encountered a setback in the recent legislative elections, but this should not discourage efforts to continuously preserve and improve its hard-won democracy,

Dicky Christanto and Slamet Susanto, Jakarta – Jusuf Kalla's decision to run for president and pick retired general Wiranto as running mate lacks solid support from with in Golkar, whic

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Golkar Party and the People's Conscience Party (Hanura) unveiled Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto as their presidential and vice presidential candi

Four major political parties on Friday signed a coalition agreement aimed at strengthening their positions in the legislature, party officials said.

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is being driven into the arms of the country's Islamic parties, posing questions about the direction of his

Jakarta – Analysts have called recent moves by parties trying to form coalitions based on power sharing as "absurd", saying Indonesia needs political partnerships that strengthen the co

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda – Civil society organizations on Friday called for the Corruption Eradication Commission to investigate election commission higher-ups over procure

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Vote buying topped the list of election violations investigated by police during the nine months of election campaigning preceding the April 9 polls.

Max Lane – The Indonesian General Elections Commission has not yet completed counting all the votes in the April 9 elections to the national parliament and scores of local assemblies.

Dicky Christanto and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Political parties trying to put together a jumbo coalition to challenge President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will need to stop shadow boxing

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, and the Golkar Party – now clearly relegated to second and third place after Pre

Jakarta – With his almost unlimited financial capacity and increasing popularity, Prabowo Subianto is shaping up to be President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) strongest opponent in t

Jakarta – The House of Representatives finally ratifies the regulation in-lieu-of law on voters list via voting mechanism at the House's plennary session hall in Senayan, South Jakarta,

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Dicky Christanto and Adianto Simamora, Jakarta – Party officials have admitted to placing ideology on the back burner as they move to build the crucial coalitions required to secure pow

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) central board finally came to the decision Monday to join the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a coalition fo

Golkar Party chairman and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's attempts to charm former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her possible running mate, Prabowo Subianto, over the weekend appeare

Jakarta – The chairman of Golkar Party Jusuf Kalla said on Sunday that his meeting with the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party chairman Prabowo Subiyanto was an initial step in f

Supporters of Megawati Soekarnoputri, the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI-P), have demanded her to be cautious not to choose vice president candidates with possible t

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Negotiations began in earnest yesterday after the spectacular split in Indonesia's ruling coalition, as Vice-President Jusuf Kalla held closed-door meetin

Jakarta – Political analysts have criticized potential coalitions being discussed for the presidential elections as "superficial and fragile".

Denpasar – 23 percent of voters abstained from voting in the April 9 legislative election, or 621,443 voters out of 2,667,065 registered voters did not cast their vote.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's Golkar party has opened up the national election race by declaring Vice-President Jusuf Kalla will stand against President Susilo Bambang Yudh

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia's ruling coalition has disintegrated after the Golkar party decided yesterday to run its own presidential candidate against the immensely popular incumbe

The Indonesia office of the International Committee of the Red Cross says the request by Jakarta for it to leave the Papua region is not linked to visits by its officials to separatists

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Muhamad Al Azhari, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran – In a day of hectic political maneuvering, Golkar executives announced on Wednesday that t

Lawyers for West Papuan activist Buchtar Tabuni claim he has been assaulted by Indonesian police and three public prosecutors.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Party, founded by former guerilla fighters from the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM, is the only one of six local political parties in the province to cle

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Police dismissed Wednesday a report citing alleged manipulations in the final voter lists used for the April 9 legislative elections.

Achmad Faisal, Surabaya – Witnesses from 20 small political parties walked out of a plenary session with the provincial elections commission (KPUD) on Wednesday, during the counting of