Alexander R Arifianto – Indonesians went to the polls on 17 April 2019 not just to elect their new president for the next five years.

Jakarta – The chairman of Indonesia's opposition National Mandate Party (PAN), Zulkifli Hasan, appears to have broken ranks with his ally, presidential contender Prabowo Subianto.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has announced that a majority of the more than 100 local poll administrators (KPPS) who died in four provinces

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – The Prabowo – Sandiaga campaign team (BPN) spokesman Andre Rosiade said that his side committed to not joining the people power movement to protest the

Jakarta – The campaign team of presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno will submit any evidence it has of alleged election fraud to the country's election watchdo

Yulia Savitri, Palembang – Two-minute footage of a number of unidentified people on a rampage inside a room full of voting boxes went viral on Thursday.

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Maj. Gen.

Jakarta – Five out of 34 provinces in Indonesia have wrapped up vote tabulation for the April 17 general election, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has said.

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday that he would be able to give his best for the country during his second term, as he would no longer be burden

Jakarta (Antara) – The Election Commission (KPU) has completed the process of vote recapitulation of the 2019 general elections in 93 out of 130 regions overseas.

Carlos Ky Paath & Christian Lee, Jakarta – Amid relentless accusations of foul play coming from presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's camp, which have resulted in political ten

Yesterday, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto held a meeting for foreign journalists in Jakarta (no local media outlets, including the Jakarta Post, were invited apparently) to br

Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto on Monday (May 6) called for irregularities in data entry from polling stations to be corrected, as his team

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is threatening legal actions to stop anyone attempting to delegitimize the results of the official election count by the General Ele

Jakarta – The Presidential ticket of Prabowo Subianto and running mate Sandiaga Uno have won decisively against incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin in the 2019 pre

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Ghina Ghaliya and Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The idea of holding digital elections is picking up steam following reports that dozens of election workers died of rep

Jakarta (Antara) – Defense Minister General (ret) Ryamizard Ryacudu has warned those who are disappointed with the result of the election not to conduct street rallies.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) topped the legislative election league table, according to the Jakarta General Elections Commission's (KPU) latest real co

Zunita Putri, Jakarta – The Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno election campaign team (BPN) is proposing that the graves of polling station organising committee (KPPS) officials who die

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said the meeting of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Democrat party's Joint Task Force (Kogasma) commander Agus Harimurti Yudh

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Campaign ads on television, radio and print media hardly swayed Indonesian voters' decisions in last month's presidential and legislative elections, new data fro

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Volunteers of the Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno campaign team claim to have recorded 13,000 instances of inconsistent counting on the General Elections Commiss

For those supporting Prabowo Subianto and his claims he actually won Indonesia's April 17th election, neither the same-day quick count polls nor the ongoing results from the painstakin

Donald Greenlees – At the conclusion of an Indonesian election, it might seem strange to contemplate the next, but the 2019 presidential election signposts a significant transition in

Yustinus Paath & Aries Sudiono, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission, or KPU, is preparing to pay up to $3.5 million in compensation to families of more than 300 election off

Twelve days ago, Prabowo Subianto declared victory in Indonesia's presidential election despite the results of every single credible pollsters' quick count results pointing to the oppo

Prabowo Subianto and his supporters have been making unsubstantiated claims that there was massive and systemic fraud involved in the April 17th election as justification for the candi

Ten days after Indonesia held the world's biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses, an official says.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) said it will extend voting day in Sydney this weekend although local organizers have been unable to identify the names o

Barry Desker – Earlier predictions of a double-digit landslide victory for incumbent President Joko Widodo ('Jokowi') and his vice-presidential nominee Ma'ruf Amin in Indonesia's presi

Iqbal Tawakal Lazuardi (Contributor), Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Hasyim Asyari announced that the institution was willing to reveal its data and docu

Jakarta – An election watchdog has said that it found no indication of "systematic cheating", but instead discovered that hundreds of data-input mistakes in the vote count by the Gener

Nurni Sulaiman, Bogor, West Java – After reports emerged last week that more than 200 election workers and police officers died of fatigue after voting day, calls are now mounting for

Despite President Joko Widodo being the clear winner in last Wednesday's election (based upon the quick count results which are being further validated by the ongoing real count), Indo

When Prabowo Subianto declared victory for the first time in last Wednesday's election, despite all of the quick count pollster indicating he had lost to President Joko Widodo 55% to 4

There has been a great deal of speculation over Sandiaga Uno's next move.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has dismissed an allegation that the authorities rigged last week's presidential election.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Human Rights, Wiranto, held a closed meeting with a number of ministers in his office in Medan Merdeka Barat, Cen

Andri Sulistyo with Kiki Sirigar in Jakarta – Political hopeful Yayat Abdurahman bet that he would be a winner among some 245,000 candidates in Indonesia's huge election last week, but

Indonesia's military says elections held last week in Papua went smoothly, despite threats of more violence from rebels.

Jakarta – Calls have been mounting for incumbent Indonesian President Joko Widodo and rival Prabowo Subianto to immediately hold a one-on-one meeting and ease tensions between the two

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Indonesia's chief security minister said on Wednesday accusations that the government and security forces conspired with election agencies to conduct

Jakarta – As in previous years, the 2019 legislative elections have resulted in cases of depression among losing candidates and their campaign teams.

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Jakarta Metro Police deployed around one thousand personnel to secure the rally staged by people joined in Aksi Tolak Pemilu Curang (Act against Election Fraud)

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto welcomed several guests in his residence on Jalan Kertanegara 4, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, on Tue

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – After much huffing and puffing, the government officially rebuked on Wednesday circulating allegations by the opposition parties that it was involved

Nithin Coca – Quiet. Boring. Stable.

Alexander R Arifianto – Indonesia's presidential elections took place on 17 April 2019, after an eight-month political contest that was characterised by some as "the most polarised ele

While the General Election Commission (KPU) has received much praise for their generally smooth implementation of the biggest one-day democratic elections in the world on Wednesday, th

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – As tensions intensified between incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and challenger Prabowo Subianto over the expected results in the Indonesia election las