Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabi, Jakarta – After winning Indonesia's closest ever presidential election, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo now faces what could be his toughest battle yet – winning

Jakarta – Indonesia's General Elections Commission, or KPU, hit back at Prabowo Subianto on Tuesday, emphasizing the integrity of its vote count and saying that the losing candidate's d

Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto said all Indonesian people should stand firm against any provocation that could lead to social unrest

Election Watch – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) will remain committed to supporting presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto after he withdrew from the election process following his

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Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto upstaged Tuesday night's announcement confirming his defeat in the election earlier this month by declaring his rejection of the offici

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring on Monday threatened to revoke broadcasting permits for news channels tvOne and MetroTV over allegedly un

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Michael Bachelard – Former military strongman Prabowo Subianto has indicated he will not accept the result of the Indonesian presidential election and has called into question the proce

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Robertus Wardhi & Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has won the presidential election with just over 53 percent of the vote against Pr

Hans Nicholas Jong and Ina Parlina, Jakarta/Bandarlampung – The campaign team of Gerindra Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto made a surprise call to the General Elections Com

Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday he will not accept the election result due to be announced in coming days, accusing the Elections Commission of not pro

Jakarta – Pollsters have spoken out against efforts to criminalize what they considered a scientific enterprise to ensure a free and fair presidential election by releasing quick count

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Campaign finance reports filed by both presidential tickets with the General Elections Commission (KPU) revealed that the Indonesian Democratic Party of St

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Indonesians have mobilised in their thousands to ensure the vote counting process in the presidential election is free and fair prior to the official announcement o

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is facing mounting pressure to concede defeat as prominent citizens have published open letters expressing their wishes on the "Surat U

Jakarta – A website built by volunteers to trawl through publicly available General Election Commission (KPU) data and conduct its own informal vote count came under attack from hackers

Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Although presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has claimed that he will abide by the official election result, his legal team is gea

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Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's claim to have won Indonesia's presidential election was dealt a significant blow on Wednesday after two s

Ina Parlina and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A recent plan by lawmakers to summon state-run broadcaster Radio Republic Indonesia (RRI), following its quick-count result that indicated vi

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The declaration of a "permanent coalition" by presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and the seven political parties supporting his bid has prompted at least t

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups on Tuesday filed a report with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) regarding alleged vote buying at the Regional Gene

Hans Nicholas Jong and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) pledged on Tuesday that it would remain impartial amid allegations of rampant manipulation taking pl

Dini Pramita, Jakarta – The Kawal Pemilu (Guard the Elections) website www.kawalpemilu.org , which is maintained by volunteers to report the movement of vote

Edward Aspinall – In a posting immediately after polling day last week, Marcus Mietzner and I argued that having failed to win the election, it was now likely that Prabowo Subianto's ca

Erwida Maulia & Erwin Sihombing, Jakarta – The single-digit difference between the votes for the two candidates in last week's presidential election, coupled with the increasingly l

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his running mate Jusuf Kalla garnered 96,780 votes, in comparison to the 69,220 votes rivals Prabowo Subia

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The campaign team of Gerindra Party's presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto filed on Monday a police report against Akbar Faisal, a campaign team member of

Roanne Van Voorst – It's the day before the Presidential elections. Ibu Oda grins when she reaches deep in her handbag and takes out an envelope.

All across the country, indications of foul play have broken out like a rash during the vote tabulation phase of the election, which has seen presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto, a di

Rieka Rahadiana & Neil Chatterjee – Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo indicated he is open to other parties joining his coalition as signs of discord appear in opponent

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Jakarta – A senior member of Prabowo Subianto's election team has said that the award-winning US journalist Allan Nairn will be reported to police for publishing a series of articles de

Jakarta – The strategic Development and Policy Research Center (Puskaptis) has refused to attend an audit by the Association of Indonesian Public Opinion Surveys Firms (Persepi).

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Jacqui Baker – Three institutions take centre stage this week: the national election commission [KPU], the elections supervisory body [Bawaslu] and the national police [Polri] as the Ju

Haeril Halim/Arya Dipa, Jakarta, Bandung – As the General Elections Commission (KPU) continued with its tabulation of the July 9 presidential election results, many have reported allege

Angga Yudha Pratomo – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto held a press conference after attending a declaration of a permanent coalition at the Proclamation Building in Central Jaka

Fransiska Nangoy and Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia's young democracy faces its biggest challenge since emerging from decades of autocratic rule 16 years ago after both candidate

Jakarta – The Gerindra Party Jakarta-chapter central executive board chairman, Muhamad Taufik, said candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa won the presidential election in Jakarta

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – With both presidential candidates claiming victory in Wednesday's election based on quick counts, and the deciding official res

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto scolded a number of journalists, from online to television, when he was about to be interviewed in his house in Bogor, West Java, just

Hasyim Widhiarto and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Several Indonesian pollsters were on the receiving end of threats and intimidation on Friday allegedly due to their opposing findings re

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – After being ridiculed by the public for using dubious pollsters to back up its claim of winning the July 9 presidential election, the camp of the Gerindra

Yeremia Sukoyo, Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two of Indonesia's preeminent reform organizations have called for citizens to be vigilant against electoral fraud

Hans Nicholas Jong, Headlines – After two days of recapitulation from polling stations, recapitulation documents scanned and uploaded on the General Elections Commission's (KPU) website