SP/Anastasia Winanti – Prabowo Subianto is moving quickly in the race toward the 2014 presidential election.

Jakarta – Preparations for the 2014 general elections have grown more complicated with a ruling by the Election Organizers Ethics Council (DKPP) that allows 18 parties, previously decla

Jakarta – Political parties need larger amounts of financial aid from the government to help discourage money politics and transactional politics, according to democracy watchdogs.

Ezra Sihite – Efforts to oust Vice President Boediono have hit another snag, with only two lawmakers on a key House of Representatives committee urging the legislature to undertake a ma

SP/Anastasia Winanti – Political parties tied to former Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Suharto family member Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra have been given a lifeline to stand

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Jakarta – A ruling from the Election Organizers Ethics Council (DKPP) has added to the woes of the General Election Commission, which has been dogged by allegations of irregularities in

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Jusuf Kalla's announcement that he may run on a presidential ticket under Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla said he is ready to join the ticket of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) Megawati Soekarnoputri as a v

Jakarta – A maneuver at the House of Representatives will unlikely lead to the ouster of Vice President Boediono but rather serve as a political bargaining chip in anticipation of a pos

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Lawmakers are garnering support for a no-confidence motion against Vice President Boediono with the Golkar Party, the biggest faction

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government has issued a regulation obliging political parties to spend at least 60 percent of assistance funds received from the state budget on voter ed

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Salim Osman – Two recent opinion polls caused a stir in Indonesia when they predicted that none of the major Islamic political parties would remain among the top five parties in the 201

Jakarta – Like any other citizen in the country, celebrities are granted a constitutional right to run for a political position.

Jakarta – Nurul Arifin, a Golkar lawmaker at House Commission II on regional autonomy, says the House will summon Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi to clarify an internal rift within the Gene

Jakarta – Believing in the democratic value that everyone has the same right to be a presidential candidate, Rhoma Irama, the country's king of dangdut music, says that he is ready to g

Jakarta – Blame it on Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) announced over the weekend that out of 16 political parties, 13 had passed the factual verification stage at the national level.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has officially nominated the pairing of member of the House of Representatives Rieke Diyah Pitaloka and antigraft activist

Indonesian celebrities have hijacked the electoral process, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo warned on Thursday in a speech criticizing what he called a common shortcut to office.

Jakarta – More than two years after their last meeting in 2010, chair of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Megawati Soekarnoputri made a conciliatory gesture toward Pr

Jakarta – All of the major political parties still have to undergo the factual verification stage's tough screening process, which is conducted by the General Elections Commission (KPU)

Senior Golkar Party officials are divided over the notion of pairing Aburizal Bakrie, the party chairman, with former Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati for the 2014 presidential el

Hong Kong/Jakarta – Financier Nat Rothschild is forming a rival consortium, including a contender for Indonesia's presidency, to launch a counter-offer to the $1.4 billion Bumi Plc buyo

Several NGOs are criticizing the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) for poor performance.

Leaders of 18 political parties that the General Elections Commission (KPU) declared unqualified to contest the 2014 poll came to the KPU office in Jakarta on Wednesday protesting the d

In spite of the General Election Commission's (KPU) decision to disqualify them from the next stage of verification, minor political parties continue efforts to gain eligibility for the

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Ezra Sihite – A senior Golkar Party figure has claimed that the political bloc's chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, has settled all outstanding claims relating to the 2006 East Java mudflow for

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Hundreds of Golkar Party members from across the country gathered at the party's national leadership meeting in Jakarta on Monday amid concerns that the part

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) announced on Sunday that 18 political parties had failed the administrative verification process that must be completed to run in the 20

Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Speculation is mounting that the national polling body is deliberately delaying the announcement of parties eligible to contest the 2

National – A researcher from the Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) said that Islam-based parties should merge themselves into no more than two parties to survive in the crowded political e

SP/Carlos Paath, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ronna Nirmala – Former President Megawati Sukarnoputri could pair with Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo to challenge Golkar Party chairman Ab

Jakarta – In a gesture to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Golkar Party is considering picking a family member of the Democratic Party's chief patron to be the running mate of Ab

Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has named anti-corruption activist Teten Masduki as its candidate in the West Java gubernatorial election scheduled for February.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – The Golkar Party on Monday said that the recent business saga surrounding companies belonging to the family of its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Surabaya – Former president and opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri revealed on Friday that she had to fight against a "great current" to back the ticket t

Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) announced on Monday that none of political parties that had registered with the commission had met administrative requirements.

Jakarta – Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, Jakarta's governor-elect has topped a list of young potential candidates for the 2014 presidential election, according to a new survey.

A specialist in Papua affairs says Indonesian lawmakers are displaying inconsistent approaches to the ongoing security problem in Papua region.

The presidential election is still far away, but at least five military generals – mostly retired but still influential – have come forward as potential candidates to replace Susilo Bam

Arientha Primanita, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Lenny Tristia Tambun – Retired army general Prabowo Subianto on Friday said he would not back down in his bid for the presidency, desp

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on retired Indonesian Military (TNI) generals looking to join the 2014 presidential election race to uphold democratic values while contest

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Jakarta – The Golkar Party has lashed out at Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam for releasing a list of the country's most corrupt political parties and putting Golkar at the top of the list.

Pitan Daslani – Indonesia's big political parties are struggling to prevent the emergence of alternative presidential candidates for the 2014 election as political scientists said on Sa

Jakarta – The leadership of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has rebutted suggestions that it has fallen out of favor with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-