Dili – Timor-Leste's current stability could be undermined by a sharp decline in oil revenues and leadership challenges if the country's first president and current prime minister Xanan

Despite reports of irregularities in the manual vote tabulation, there is widespread confidence that the transparent and democratic process, which was largely thanks to public participa

It hasn't taken long for the West Papua National Council for Liberation (WPNCL) and other pro-independence groups to to respond to Melanesian Spearhead Group's (MSG) recent announcement

It is not every day that a government rejects a foreign aid scheme just as it is about to begin.

Jakarta – If one asks why the country's corruption index score remains disappointingly low despite the hard-fought campaign against graft over the last decade, the answer is, among othe

Max Lane – According to the majority of polling institutions that carried out "quick counts" on 9 July, Joko Widodo won 52-53 percent of the vote in the Indonesian presidential election

Hamish McDonald – Will a vote away from elite patronage-based leadership ease Indonesia's often-touchy relationship with Australia?

Andrew Thornley – In the immediate aftermath of Indonesia's presidential election, there has been intense scrutiny of not only a rack of quick count results, but the institutions conduc

Yohanes Sulaiman – Despite an ineffectual campaign by Indonesia's Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Jakarta governor Joko Widodo won Indonesia's presidential election, according to

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Anxious observers of Indonesian politics had hoped that the winner of Wednesday's presidential election might enjoy a big margin – 5 per cent more.

Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner – Let's be clear about one thing: Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has won Indonesia's 9 July presidential election.

Jim Della-Giacoma – Indonesians will head to the polls to decide their next president today.

Jayapura – Two months after the fall of the New Order regime in 1998, a massacre occurred over the Papua on the island of Biak, Papua.

We would agree that the April 9 legislative election was hardly free of violations, which ranged from vote-buying to the denial of the right to vote.

Indonesia's military has come a long way in the 16 years since the collapse of Suharto's New Order regime, undergoing reforms to become a more professional institution.

Sharon Chen & Jason Scott – Sixteen years after the overthrow of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia is turning back toward that regime as his former son-in-law pulls level in the race

There is no such thing as being neutral when the stakes are so high.

Bobby Anderson – Papuans have the lowest life expectancies in Indonesia, the highest maternal and child mortality rates, the lowest educational levels and the highest rates of tuberculo

Ruben Rosenberg Colorni – Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation and archipelago on the planet, has climbed the ranks of global neo-liberalism to become the world's 10th largest economy,

Max Lane – According to most Indonesian polls, former provincial businessman, mayor of Solo and governor of Jakarta Joko Widodo has lost a substantial lead to former general Prabowo Sub

Benedict Rogers – A nation "at the crossroads" is a well-worn and overused phrase, but it is one that befits Indonesia today.

General Prabowo's campaign said today that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) are ready to capture me, and claimed that I am part of a US government/business conspiracy against Prabowo.

Yenni Kwok – As the candidate who it was made for, Prabowo Subianto, once said, "Do I have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?"

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

Netani Rika, Fiji – Fijians have been described as among the most hospitable people in the world, flinging open the doors to their homes at every opportunity to passing guests.

Sohoon Lee and Nicola Piper, Sydney – Stories of domestic worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih made headlines when she spoke out against her employer's abhorrent abuse while working in Hong K

Simon Butt – In late May 2014, Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa formally registered with the General Electoral Commission as presidential and vice presidential candidates.

[The outside world should be worried by the possibility that Prabowo Subianto could become Indonesian president, writes Edward Aspinall, but the biggest losers will be Indonesia's ow

Duncan Graham, Malang, East Java – In a secret underground vault somewhere in the Australian Capital Territory sit two documents – Plan J and Plan P.

Patrick Tibke, Jakarta – An intriguing 10 days of presidential campaigning in Indonesia has culminated in mild disarray for Prabowo Subianto's "red-and-white" coalition as tensions emer

The manner in which presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto was discharged from the military in 1998 has become the subject of contention as the election campaign intensifies.

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Do you like comedy? I love it.

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – In the run-up to last night's presidential candidate debate, the conventional wisdom among constituents was that Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was a softly s

Duncan Graham – Kiwis have a marvellously grotesque way of describing the acceptance of unpalatable policy changes: Swallowing dead rats.

Kristio Wahyono, Yogyakarta – When it was a non-self governing territory under the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), Timor Leste was the first neighbor

Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has clearly given the military strong hope that it might regain the political power it lost following the fall of his

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The deportation of 20 teachers, including two Australians, from the Jakarta International School is the latest measure of the hyper-ventilation induced in I

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – It has long been the norm that politicians use Islam as electoral bait.

Jemma Purdey, Melbourne, Australia – Advisors to Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto will be closely watching developments in the India-US relationship in the lead-up to

Loro Horta – The leader and founding father of Asia's youngest nation, Xanana Gusmao, announced in November that he was resigning as prime minister and leaving politics.

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's meteoric rise in popularity as presidential hopeful has been conspicuous.

Duncan Graham – Why did Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott cancel his visit to Indonesia? The budget has been suggested. Bunkum!

Andreas Harsono – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's legacy of worsening religious intolerance and related violence will be one of the biggest challenges his successor will

Endy M. Bayuni, Jakarta - May is a good month for Indonesia for it commemorates three major national events.

Usman Hamid – The Indonesian Electoral Commission will soon announce the results of April's legislative elections.

Brian McAfee – The story of "post-colonial" Indonesia begins on August 17, 1945, when Sukarno, its first president, declared Indonesia an independent and free nation.

Peter Hartcher – Tony Abbott was supposed to be in Bali on Tuesday.

Around 250,000 workers, members of various trade unions, mobilised in Jakarta for May Day, 2014. From all accounts, the mobilisations were similar to those of 2012 and 2013.

Agung Pamungkas, Nottingham, UK – A milestone is defined as an important event in the development or history of something or in someone's life.

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – "Do you want to be led by a puppet?