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

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

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

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.

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

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 – 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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 – 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,

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

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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

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

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

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.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A number of small parties have demanded that an Elections Law stipulation on the legislative threshold be postponed, saying it bars them from having their own

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Golkar party officially declared its chairman Jusuf Kalla as presidential candidate to compete in coming election.

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

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Dicky Christianto and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The so-called Teuku Umar Block, led by former president Megawati Soekarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), is consi

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has set up a team to investigate why so many people were left off the fixed voter lists for the April 9 legislative electi

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The pace of Indonesia's economic growth will likely pick up in the last quarter of the year on strengthening consumption while predicted signs of global econ

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says his Democratic Party and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's Golkar Party have so far agreed on maintaining coalition in the go

Jakarta/Bandung/Yogyakarta – The electronic but slow vote counting finally came to an end after almost two weeks on Monday, as the General Elections Commission (KPU) races against time

Jakarta – With President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party set to form a coalition with the Golkar Party and most of the middle-rank parties, the next executive branch of gove

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Jakarta – The founders of the Democratic Party, together with partisans, have formed a campaign team called "Indonesia Bisa" or "Indonesia Can", to support Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's bi