A group that had crossed the Papuan border to join the Free Papua Movement (OPM) led by Daniel Kogoya in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have handed over three firearms to the Cenderawasih Milit

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SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – Prabowo Subianto, the former Army general who tops most polls of prospective presidential candidates, says he is working to get the endorsement of the country's acad

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Jakarta – Aburizal Bakrie is the most-talked about presidential candidate on social media outlets, but he is also considered by netizens as the least preferable person to become the cou

Jakarta – In the run-up to the selection of legislative candidates in April, political parties have started to pick familiar faces that will attract voters to their parties in the upcom

PFF, Rarotonga, Cook Islands – Killing, beating, abducting and jailing journalists in West Papua remains the most immediate issue in regional affairs, states the Pacific Freedom Forum.

Ezra Sihite – Ten political parties that qualified to run in the 2014 legislative elections obtained their ballot numbers on Monday.

Ezra Sihite – Thinking of a career in the legislature? Gerindra Party announced on Monday that it was looking for candidates seeking to contest the 2014 legislative elections.

Aditya Revianur, Jakarta – The coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Haris Ashar says that the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HA

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – The Islamist Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), publicly perceived as tolerant to polygamy, sacked one of its provincial legislators for not registering his second

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SP/Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – The national polling body has confirmed that the nine parties at the House of Representatives and one new party will be the only ones contesting the 201

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Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) has failed to meet its Monday deadline for announcing the list of political parties eligible to contest the 2014 legislative elections, f

Arientha Primanita & Ezra Sihite – In the next two years, regular people will see President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in their neighborhoods more often as he said he wants to increas

The National Election Committee will on Monday reveal the names of political parties that passed the factual verification process to participate in the April 2014 legislative election.

Jakarta – The Muslim-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) gave an award on Tuesday to Agus Chaerudin, an office boy at a bank in Bekasi, West Java, who returned the Rp 100 million (US$1

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has decided to play it safe in the 2014 presidential election by putting everything on hold until the results of the 2014 legislative election ar

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Karawang – Analysts are attributing voter apathy to rampant money politics in legislative races, saying that cash payments are likely to be a deciding factor in the

Ezra Sihite & SP/Erwin Cristianson – The scale of corruption involving political parties is only expected to increase in 2013 as parties rely on officials in elected positions natio

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – As the 2014 general election draws near, graft watchdog Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has warned about the possible flourishing of political corruption

Incumbent West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan was reported to the local election board for alleged campaign violations after the governor reportedly asked local village chiefs for their s

Jakarta – The Democratic Party says it will support Puan Maharani, the daughter of former President Megawati Soekarnoputri, to replace Andi Mallarangeng as the next Youth and Sports Min

Zakir Hussain, Jakarta – Leaders of Indonesia's ruling Democrat Party are seeking to quash talk of a split in their ranks, days after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned them to b

Jakarta – Activists with the People's Voter Education Network (JPPR) have found 13 categories of violations by political parties during the factual verification process at provincial an

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Ezra Sihite – The National Mandate Party (PAN) has agreed to nominate Hatta Rajasa, its chairman as well as Indonesia's coordinating minister for the economy, as the party's candidate f

Jakarta – Several observers have blamed existing legislation for encouraging political parties to rely on business tycoons to support their operational costs, saying such practices ofte

Pitan Daslani – The temperature in Indonesia's political theater will soar next year as potential presidential candidates and political parties intensify efforts to boost their images a

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The highest position Megawati Sukaroputri has occupied was president of the Republic of Indonesia from July 23, 2001, until Oct. 20, 2004.

Throughout 2012, new names for presidential candidates have emerged in the mainstream and social media, but the old names continue to dominate the news.

University of Indonesia analyst, Iberamsjah, said that as chief patron of the Democratic Party, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had to immediately take action against party chairman

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Another stumbling block has been put in the way of Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie's bid for the presidency with the party's board of advisors issuing

Jakarta – Amid internal bickering, the chief patron of the Democratic Party, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is ordering party leaders to start soul searching ahead of the 2014 elec

Democratic Party politician Ruhut Sitompul has been removed from his position as the party's communications and information head, reportedly for his frequent criticism of party chairman

Surabaya, East Java – Indonesia's retired army general, Wiranto, will run for president in 2014.

Jakarta – A senior minister has stated that the country did not need a strongman president because such a person would tend to prioritize his own interests ahead of people's needs.

Jakarta – The graft scandals that have implicated several Democratic Party politicians will not cause the party to collapse, but will seriously shrink the party's performance in the 201

Jakarta – Holding on to the belief that the majority of Indonesian people long for the calm and order of the Soeharto era, members of the former strongman's family appear to have found

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has told Democratic Party executives to brace for the worst in anticipation of the graft probe of the party's board of pat

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With the Jakarta branch of the Great Indonesian Movement Party on Saturday announcing its nomination of party founder Prabowo Subia

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) made another bold move in naming Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng a suspect in the Hambalang sports c

The National Republic Party (Nasrep), the political party of former president Soeharto's favorite son, Tommy Soeharto, was upbeat that it would pass the factual verification process and

Jakarta – Political parties in the House of Representatives (DPR) remain at odds on setting the threshold of support needed to nominate a presidential candidate in 2014.

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