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Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The death toll from violent clashes between supporters of rival political candidates in Papua's Tolikara district now stands at six while the number of injur

Bagus BT Saragih and Agnes Winarti, Jakarta/Denpasar – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been infuriated by the widening rifts in the leadership of the Democratic Party that he fou

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The dispute between factions of former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) members may escalate following a coordination meeting held by ex-guerrilla leaders to for

Jakarta – Democratic Party chief patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reportedly "greatly angered" by a plan formulated by his party's board to assign troubled cadre Angelina Sondakh to

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – A coalition of NGO activists, experts and lawmakers has called for a reform in the political party financing system.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Independent candidates looking to join the West Java gubernatorial election race are required to gather written support from at least 1.3 million eligible vo

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Bagus BT Saragih, Bandung/Jakarta – At a time when the Democratic Party's central leadership is being bombarded with the major Wisma Atlet corruption scandal, party

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – In a show of force by the winners of the last local elections, tens of thousands of members of the Aceh Party descended on the provincial capital on Sunday in

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – With political elites in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam at loggerheads with each other in a battle to rule the resource-rich province in the upcoming gubernatorial p

Endy M. Bayuni – In any democracy, a political party is a public institution.

Ridwan Max Sijabat – House of Representatives lawmakers have agreed to let political party leaders decide some of the most crucial issues surrounding pending revisions to the law on leg

Bagus BT Saragih and Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – For politician and former lawyer Amir Syamsuddin, the job of weeding out corrupt politicians in the ruling Democratic Party turned out t

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Ezra Sihite, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rangga Prakoso – The Democratic Party will continue to decline in popularity unless President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono removes those who are

Sara Everingham – A Timorese-Australian who was acquitted of conspiring to kill East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is now running for his job.

The Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires recently declared her nomination in East Timor's Presidential election and is now preparing to begin her campaign.

Outgoing Democratic Party deputy secretary general Angelina Sondakh has accepted the party's decision to suspend her and says she is ready to be detained after anticorruption authoritie

Damien Kingsbury – As Timor-Leste's political climate warms up ahead of next month's presidential elections, many people are asking who is most likely to be elected president.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Rapists, killers and other criminals can run as legislative candidates in general elections as a committee in the House of Representatives (DPR) has agreed t

Ezra Sihite & Anita Rachman – Voters are abandoning Indonesia's ruling Democratic Party amid a string of corruption scandals enveloping its senior figures, with a new survey of publ

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Political observers have warned that Democrat Party chief patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's initiative to publicly explain issues surrounding the party in re

Rizky Amelia – Notorious Indonesian corruption suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has demanded Anas Urbaningrum admit to his alleged involvement in a high-level graft scandal – or else.

Anita Rachman, Ezra Sihite & Robertus Wardi – The beleaguered Democratic Party held a meeting on Tuesday after it became apparent that some party members were seeking to replace cha

The new-look National Republic Party said on Tuesday that it would base its platform on the policies and programs espoused by former President Suharto, who was ousted by popular dissent

Bandung – The central board of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) said that the party would nominate some popular figures as candidates for the 2014 presidential poll, including controv

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The rift within President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party appeared to increase on Tuesday, with supporters of party chairman Anas Urbaningrum mak

Karlis Salna – East Timorese presidential hopeful Francisco Guterres has called for peaceful elections that will avoid the violence which broke out five years ago when the young country

Fransisco Guterres, better known as 'Lu Olo', lodged his official nomination for East Timor's presidency on Tuesday with the endorsement of the Fretilin party.

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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said Tuesday he will seek another term in March polls, as the young nation votes for the first time since an assassination bid that almost killed h

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Nobel peace prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta is expected to announce today that he is in the running for another five-year term as president of East Timor.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The rescheduling of the Aceh gubernational poll drew protests on Monday from those including incumbent governor Irwandi Yusuf, who is seeking his second

Bagus BT Saragih dan Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum still enjoys support from the party's regional branches despite his alleged involvement in Mu

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The fate of the beleaguered chairman of the Democratic Party, Anas Urbaningrum, rests with the little-known supervisory committee now investigating allegation

Agus Triyono & Nurdin Hasan – The decision earlier this month by polling officials in Aceh to postpone February's local elections to as late as April was approved by the Constitutio

Jakarta – With numerous electoral disputes that arise from local elections across the country, the time is ripe for the government to set up special courts at the district level to spee

Arientha Primanita & Ezra Sihite – The Democratic Party is trying to head off any in-fighting as the bribery scandal involving the construction of an athletes' village threatens to

Senior politicians from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party (PD) admitted on Wednesday that the party was in serious trouble as a result of corruption allegations leve

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The process of revising the 2008 Legislative Elections Law has come to a halt as factions in the House of Representatives continue to jockey to bolster the

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Democratic Party hopes to open a new chapter in its story of internal rifts, with the party's chief patron President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono summoning p

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A regional election clash has once again erupted during campaigning for a local regent election in Papua, causing the death of a supporter of one of the e

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Candidate pairs for the Aceh gubernatorial election underwent Koran recital tests in Banda Aceh on Tuesday as part of an official examination of their Is

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – For Puan Maharani, the 38-year-old daughter of former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, earning the top job in the country's third-largest party, the Indon

Agus Triyono, Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives has until March to amend the law on elections, but one key issue remains contentious: the

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Party, founded by former Aceh Freedom Movement (GAM) combatants, finally registered its candidates at the Independent Election Commission Aceh (

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Polling officials in Aceh announced on Thursday that they had no choice but to push back the long-awaited local elections there from Feb. 16 to April 9.

Ezra Sihite, Nurdin Hasan & Arientha Primanita – The Constitutional Court has weighed in on the dispute over the upcoming Aceh elections with a ruling that unregistered candidates s

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java's upcoming gubernatorial race is starting to heat up, as a major party announced on Monday six hopefuls for the election, slated for February 2012.

Ezra Sihite – A legislative fact-finding team has concluded that the recent deadly shootings in Aceh in the lead-up to local elections are politically motivated and should not be treate