Jakarta – Indonesia's army special forces (Kopassus) and the state intelligence agency (BIN) are involved in a covert operation to influence the presidential election.

Ina Parlina and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto paid a visit to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his fellow former cadet, late on Friday as a l

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SP/Erwin Cristianson Sihombing & Anastasia Winanti, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that this year's presidential election will only be conducted in one round e

Timika – Police are searching for people who distributed leaflets urging voters to boycott the July 9 presidential election and demand a referendum.

Michael Bachelard, Bandung – The two leading contenders for next week's Indonesian presidential elections are in sharp disagreement about the future of the young democracy's constitutio

Karon Snowdon – A former high-ranking member of Indonesia's military says presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's human rights record makes him unsuitable for the job of running the c

Jakarta – The campaign team of Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Rajasa on Thursday refuted recent comments by US journalist Allan Nairn desc

Rebecca Lake, Jakarta – Speaking to a select group of Indonesian press at an undisclosed Jakarta location on Tuesday, controversial American journalist Allan Nairn emphasized that a Pra

Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Jakarta – About 1,000 people gathered at Grand Mosque in Yogyakarta on Tuesday at the invitation of a group of Islamic organizations that intended t

Hans Nicholas Jong and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – The wealth of the Gerindra Party's presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto totals Rp 1.67 trillion (US$140.46 million) and $7.5 million,

Atmi Pertiwi, Jakarta – US investigative journalist Allen Nairn has spoken out about Indonesia's two presidential candidates.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has warned that based on recent legislative election cases it has handled, most election violations were committed during the vote counting process.

Eve Warburton – At a recent presidential campaign rally, Prabowo Subianto addressed a crowd of bussed-in supporters at a Jakarta football stadium.

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has indicated that, if elected, he would begin the process of winding back the electoral system in favor of a "consultati

Ward Berenschot and Darmawan Purba – On 9 April, Ridho Ficardo became the new governor of Lampung, Sumatra's southern-most province.

Jakarta – Award-winning US journalist Allan Nairn continued on Tuesday to shake up Indonesia's presidential campaignby publishing another article on his off-the-record interview with ca

Election Watch – In a rare occasion of labor and management uniting behind a single cause, labor unions and businesspeople have jointly declared support for the presidential bid of the

Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party officially declared its support for the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa presidential ticket on Monday,

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Everybody involved in the Indonesian presidential election is a multimillionaire, but ex-military strongman Prabowo Subianto is by far the richest.

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Sixteen years after being deposed in disgrace, the family of former president Suharto is making a political comeback which could take one of its scions all

Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – Vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa clarified a question by rival Jusuf Kalla on what Prabowo Subianto repeatedly said when the nation suffers "leakage

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Educators have lambasted Indonesia's two vice presidential candidates for pandering to the masses following their televised debate on Sunday in which they expoun

Kanupriya Kapoor and Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – When one of Indonesia's most powerful politicians wanted to be part of a new government, he did not approach Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the

Jakarta – Rival vice-presidential candidates Jusuf Kalla and Hatta Rajasa covered science and technology, a topic rarely discussed on the campaign trail, in the third televised presiden

Ina Parlina and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta/Malang – As the country readies for the holy month of Ramadhan with the election just two weeks away, presidential candidates and their support

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie said on Saturday that he was behind a letter sent to teachers asking them to support Prabowo Subianto's presidential bid, Indonesian medi

Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama executive council (PBNU) chair, Slamet Effendi Yusuf, said that the NU would remain neutral in the upcoming presidential election on July 9 and that NU members

Jakarta – Despite apologizing earlier this week for dressing up like a mass-murdering Nazi war criminal for a Prabowo Subianto campaign video, Indonesian Idol judge Ahmad Dhani went on

Eveline Danubrata and Heru Asprihanto, Jakarta – To attract Indonesia's army of young voters, one presidential candidate is hoping a "Two Finger Salute" will do the trick.

Andrea Wijaya, Jakarta – The controversy surrounding American award-winning journalist Allan Nairn and his 2001 off-the-record interview with Prabowo Subianto ratcheted up a notch on Th

Laurencius Simanjuntak – Experienced US journalist Allan Nairn has spoken up over accusations by the Prabowo Subianto camp that the Indonesian military (TNI) once wanted to arrest him b

The campaign team behind Indonesian Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has asked supporters to pull-down a video which uses Nazi-era images to promote him.

Benjamin Soloway, Jakarta – American investigative journalist Allan Nairn, who made a name for himself covering the Indonesian military's killing of civilians in East Timor during Suhar

Hotman Siregar & Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – Indonesia's electoral supervision body said on Wednesday that former army chief of staff General Wiranto had not committed a campaign v

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Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Former military strongman Prabowo Subianto has for the first time pulled level or even slightly ahead of the previous favourite, Joko Widodo, in the Indones

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Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – A teachers association reported presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to the Election Supervisory Body, or Bawaslu, after several schools received a letter urg

Jakarta – International coverage of Indonesia's presidential election campaign took a worrying turn on Wednesday after the German weekly Der Spiegel published a story on the disgraceful

Haeril Halim, Headlines – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gave an impressive performance during the third televised debate

Randy Fabi, Jakarta – One of the two hopefuls in Indonesia's presidential election has been accused of being a closet Christian, the other of being a foreigner and unfit to lead the nat

On July 9 the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia, will hold an election that could result in General Prabowo Subianto becoming president.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may still have four months in office before his term expires in October, but some of his ministers are already distanc

Nurhayat Indriyatno & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Months before a single ballot had been cast in the presidential election, Indonesia's oldest Islamic party was facing its most

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – When presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto spoke of his "Big Push Strategy," which entails the opening up of 4 million hectares of land in Indonesia for agricu

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief filed a lawsuit on slander against news portal Inilah.com, which reported an alleged conspiracy between the attorney general and Megawati Soekar

Novianti Setuningsih, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Carlos Paath & Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – The central pillar of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's economic platform is the nee