Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo rebutted suggestions that the people should be looking to him to decide on the nation's next leaders, as he delivered his penultimate State of t

Stefanno Sulaiman and Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – The speaker of Indonesia's upper house of parliament said on Wednesday it was important for the country to discuss ways to delay electi

Ian Wilson – By the end of 2023, there will be 271 interim regional heads who are appointed rather than elected, constituting over half of the regional leadership posts throughout Indon

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said Wednesday that the appointment of a presidential candidate had nothing to do with him as he was not the leader of a pol

Burhanuddin Muhtadi – While his party has come up with a shortlist of potential running mates, the decision as to who will run with Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo to be his vice-p

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Facing a newly formed alliance of four pro-government parties supporting Gerindra Party patron Prabowo Subianto for the presidency, the Indonesian Democratic Part

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court is asking what the urgency is for it to lower the minimum age for president and vice president from 40 to 35 years if the House o

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Mr Prabowo Subianto has received the backing of nearly half of the nine political parties in Parliament, putting him ahead of the two other candidates i

Hendro Situmorang, Jakarta – In a significant development leading up to the 2024 presidential election, the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Golkar Party announced their support for

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Golkar Party, the second largest party in the House of Representatives, and the smaller pro-government National Mandate Party (PAN) declared on Sunday their suppo

Rio Abadi, Jakarta – Democratic Party Chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono welcomed a Supreme Court ruling on Friday that dismissed a judicial review filed by former Armed Forces Commander

Ichsan Ali, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo expressed his hope on Thursday for his future successor to be a courageous leader who is willing to make crucial decisions when they

Jakarta – The current petition with the Constitutional Court challenging the age minimum for presidential candidates is a case of doing the right thing at the wrong place and time.

Ika Krismantari and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani (The Conversation Indonesia), Jakarta – Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy, will hold the planet's biggest one-day election next ye

Helen Pausacker – In the three elections since Indonesia has been holding direct presidential elections – 2009, 2014 and 2019 – there have been only two candidates for the top job.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo made it clear on Friday that he had no part in a legal initiative aimed at reducing the minimum age requirement for a presidential candidate and

Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto responded to a petition against the Election Law regarding the age limit of presidential and vice presidential c

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – Airlangga Hartarto's position as the chairman of the Golkar Party is currently treading precarious ground due to what is considered to be his lack of part

BeritaSatu, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo and potential rival Prabowo Subianto were seen attending an event in Jakarta on Saturday, both coincidentally wearing checker

GJ Burchall – The first of many things that strike you at polling places in Timor-Leste is the total lack of assaults on voters by how-to-vote card boosters – the sort that swarm all ov

Tika Ayu, Jakarta – Puan Maharani, the chairperson of the central executive board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), revealed that her party would announce the runni

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has rejected a suggestion that his administration is behind a plot to oust Airlangga Hartarto as Golkar Party chairman and replace him with a po

Jakarta – If Indonesia wants to protect what is left of its waning democracy, it needs to keep its party politics healthy through a democratic system that allows for a fair contest for

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – A recent meeting between opposition presidential candidate Anies Baswedan and former maritime affairs and fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti has led to speculati

News Desk, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) Jakarta office has said that it would remove Cinta Mega from her seat on the Jakarta City Council after she wa

Tika Ayu, Jakarta – Pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia said the public urges President Joko Widodo or Jokowi not to side with one particular presidential candidate in the 2024 general

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo ordered his eighth Cabinet reshuffle earlier this week with just over a year left of his second and final term in office.

Pudja Lestari, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Sunday delivered a message of unity and cautioned against engaging in divisive tactics that can harm the fabric of the nation

Alexander R Arifianto – The 2024 Indonesian elections are fast approaching.

Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – Gerindra Party Secretary General Ahmad Muzani denied the saying that the meeting between the 1998 activist Budiman Sudjatmiko and the party's chief patron Pr

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo hosted NasDem Party chairman Surya Paloh at the State Palace on Monday after having shunned the coalition member for months over his

Jakarta – The 2024 general elections will likely go down in history as Indonesia's first TikTok election, given the rising popularity of the Chinese video-hosting service in the country

Joshua Walker – A bold development in Prabowo Subianto's 2024 presidential campaign has been his promise that if he wins, he will invite his vanquished election rivals to join his gover

Max Lane – How does an outgoing president secure his political future without the usual party mechanism?

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) mentioned two figures worthy to be endorsed for the 2024 Jakarta gubernatorial election.

Jayapura, Jubi – The Papua Police has published a vulnerability index for the General Election, indicating that 12 out of 29 regencies and cities in Papua are at risk of conflict during

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has played down the growing number of billboards featuring him and Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a potential rival to Ganjar Pr

Maria Fransisca Lahur, Jakarta – To safeguard the 2024 General Elections, Indonesia's Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) have prepared a task force to ensure cyber-security during the natio

Yulida Medistiara, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD is asking the public to actively participate in next year's presidential and legisl

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Golkar Party will likely establish a new coalition to pave the way for chairman Airlangga Hartarto to run for the 2024 presidential election, an executive s

Jakarta – Indonesia's Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, who has declared plans to run for president a third time, is gaining momentum seven months away from the vote, according to the

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – With the country's youth between 18 and 40 years old making up the majority of eligible voters for the 2024 elections, political parties have begun drawing up the

Jakarta – The numbers are in: Young voters will dominate the 2024 ballots.

Max Lane – A small new party is sticking to its ideological guns but will probably not make much of a dent in the established elite's stranglehold on Indonesia's electoral politics.

Fachri Hamzah, Padang – Ruling party PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto asserted that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is consistent in supporting Ganjar Pranowo as a presidential c

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has highlighted that human rights issues that do the rounds ahead of elections are never concrete or discu

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Jakarta – Gerindra Party politician Andre Rosiade has said his party would welcome new partners this month to back the presidential bid of chairman Prabowo Subianto in the presidential

Gantry Meilana – Former Timor-Leste independence fighter Xanana Gusmao was sworn in on Saturday as prime minister of Asia's youngest country after his party won the parliamentary electi

Fransiskus Salu, Tegar Nurfitra, Manokwari, West Papua – The Regional Police of West Papua will station special troops across all regions of West Papua Province and Southwest Papua Prov