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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – For Indonesian lawmakers returning from Idul Fitri recess next week, two deadlocked election-related bills occupy spots high on the agenda.

Dili, East Timor – The head of East Timor's armed forces, Major General Taur Matan Ruak, said Friday he had resigned, ahead of a possible run for the presidency in elections next year.

Anita Rachman – Three months after Indonesia Corruption Watch challenged them to comply with the Political Parties Law and release their 2010 financial reports, six major parties have y

Two provincial Indonesian lawmakers from Islam-based political parties have been forced to deny allegations they were having extramarital sex in what has become and embarrassingly publi

Ronna Nirmala – Fifteen new political parties registered for the 2014 general elections ahead of the deadline on Monday night, an official said.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Nazaruddin scandal that has mired Democratic Party officials and brought the party to the brink of chaos has provided fresh impetus for rivals to put mor

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Ulma Haryanto & Febriamy Hutapea – By pledging silence in return for protection for his family, Muhammad Nazaruddin could deal a more severe blow to the De

A Golkar politician with family links to party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has thrown his hat into the ring for the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Jakarta.

Hasyim Widhiarto – Having spent big money on the hurly-burly of the 2009 election race, legislators are being squeezed with the need to spend even more money on maintaining not only the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The main opposition party said on Sunday that it would not heed public calls to push for impeachment proceedings against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono an

Jakarta – Dozens of retired army generals under the Association of Indonesian Army Retirees (PPAD) gathered at an official meeting with the executives of the Indonesian Democratic Party

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Golkar Party leaders remained confident on Thursday that the newly-established National Democratic Party did not represent a threat, with a senior party figur

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Nine of the nation's major political parties have ignored Indonesia Corruption Watch's demands to release their financial records, an ICW researcher said on S

Arientha Primanita – A new political party bent on putting former Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati forward for the presidency in 2014 officially registered itself with the Justice

Ronna Nirmala – A veteran actor-cum-activist famous for painting protest slogans on the roof of the legislature appeared at the Constitutional Court on Wednesday seeking to wrest the po

Jakarta – The Union of Independent People (SRI) Party, which plans to nominate former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati in the 2014 presidential election, will register itself on W

Tycoon and politician Aburizal Bakrie is one of the candidates being prepped by Golkar Party to contest the presidential electionin 2014.

Anita Rachman – Pick a side and stick with it, the Golkar Party has demanded of its members with one foot in the camp of the newly declared NasDem Party.

Jakarta – Seventeen people were killed and dozens injured when the supporters of rival candidates in a local regent election clashed throughout Saturday and Sunday in Ilaga district in

Violence in Aceh is becoming political, according to a human rights NGO.

Jakarta – National Democrat (Nasdem) founder Surya Paloh deplores Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie's instruction that all Golkar members involved in the newly-declared Nasdem polit

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Former President Megawati Sukarnoputri remains the hot favorite to run on the main opposition party's ticket in the 2014 presidential election, but others als

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) on Thursday urged the Democratic Party to publicly reveal its financial reports from between 2010 and 2011.

Jakarta – The Nasdem Party, which is linked to the mass organization National Democrat (Nasdem), declared Tuesday its establishment as a political party ahead of the 2014 general electi

Jayapura – Syamsul Arief Rivai has been installed as Papua's caretaker governor amid legal uncertainties about the next election.

Debnath Guharoy, Roy Morgan – Asked who they would vote for if an election was held today, eligible voters from across the country continued their drift away from the coalition.

Purwokerto – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is looking to bounce back from its poor performance at the ballot box in 2008 with an eye to winning the 2014 elections.

Jakarta – It is not uncommon for Indonesian politicians to spend billions of rupiah to win elections, especially in the regions; but only a few seem to care if their money is spent effe

Anita Rachman – After re-electing its chairman earlier this month, the United Development Party on Monday decided on its new executive leadership board, promoting young members to more

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A former combatant of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in front of his coffee kiosk in Bireun, Aceh, on Friday evening

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party says it will tap into the booming popularity of social networking sites in the country to carry it to victory in the 2014 elections.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Sentul, West Java – The Democratic Party wound up its national coordination meeting here on Sunday leaving its leadership unchanged in the wake of recent troub

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Sentul – There have been few signs of concrete action by Democratic Party politicians during their two-day working meeting to repair the party's image that has been

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Political tensions were expected to calm gradually in the once-restive Aceh after parties agreed to accept nominations of independent candidates on the con

Arientha Primanita & Febriamy Hutapea – Just as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono broke his silence on the Muhammad Nazaruddin case on Friday and urged the rogue former Democratic

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Democratic Party executives must follow through President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's vow to clean up his party by imposing strict sanctions to all corrupt an

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Sixteen political parties in Aceh, two of them local parties, have called for the rescheduling of the gubernatorial election and have threatened a boycot

Jakarta – Following the lead of the former head, other executives of the West Java chapter of the National Democrat (Nasdem) renounced their membership of the organization due to its tr

Jakarta – Small political parties met the leaders of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, demanding major political parties keep the legislative threshold at 2.5 percent.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Election Law will see major changes after a legislative committee, established to probe alleged election fraud in the 2009 polls, found that many alleged

Reliable Tempo Semanal sources said that the Chief of the East Timorese Defence Force, FALINTIL-FDTL has strongly indicated in public and in private that it is his intention to soon res

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United Development Party announced a novel, if not desperate, plan to rejuvenate its thinning ranks on Wednesday – recruit former members who have jumped

Jakarta – A number of politicians and national figures who joined the mass organization National Democrat (Nasdem), founded by media mogul Surya Paloh, left the organization after a pol

The Democratic Party has not seen its founding members and only seen a few of its senior politicians take a key role in deciding the party's course.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Prosperous Justice Party said the Democratic Party was attempting to distract attention from the ongoing Muhammad Nazaruddin scandal by once again raising

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Arya Dipa, Bandung – Incumbent candidate Suryadharma Ali retained his post as United Development Party (PPP) chairman on Tuesday and vowed to return the waning Isla

Jakarta – The 7th Congress of the United Development Party (PPP) concluded on Wednesday with Suryadharma Ali being reelected to another five-year term.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court held a press conference Tuesday to clarify its decision on the verification process for political parties following misleading reports in the media.

A recent Constitutional Court (MK) decision on the Political Parties Law will have a limited effect on legislative elections in 2014, according to several lawmakers.