Jayapura – Syamsul Arief Rivai has been installed as Papua's caretaker governor amid legal uncertainties about the next election.

Purwokerto – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is looking to bounce back from its poor performance at the ballot box in 2008 with an eye to winning the 2014 elections.

Jakarta – It is not uncommon for Indonesian politicians to spend billions of rupiah to win elections, especially in the regions; but only a few seem to care if their money is spent effe

Anita Rachman – After re-electing its chairman earlier this month, the United Development Party on Monday decided on its new executive leadership board, promoting young members to more

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A former combatant of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in front of his coffee kiosk in Bireun, Aceh, on Friday evening

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party says it will tap into the booming popularity of social networking sites in the country to carry it to victory in the 2014 elections.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Sentul, West Java – The Democratic Party wound up its national coordination meeting here on Sunday leaving its leadership unchanged in the wake of recent troub

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Sentul – There have been few signs of concrete action by Democratic Party politicians during their two-day working meeting to repair the party's image that has been

Arientha Primanita & Febriamy Hutapea – Just as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono broke his silence on the Muhammad Nazaruddin case on Friday and urged the rogue former Democratic

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Political tensions were expected to calm gradually in the once-restive Aceh after parties agreed to accept nominations of independent candidates on the con

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Democratic Party executives must follow through President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's vow to clean up his party by imposing strict sanctions to all corrupt an

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Sixteen political parties in Aceh, two of them local parties, have called for the rescheduling of the gubernatorial election and have threatened a boycot

Jakarta – Following the lead of the former head, other executives of the West Java chapter of the National Democrat (Nasdem) renounced their membership of the organization due to its tr

Jakarta – Small political parties met the leaders of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, demanding major political parties keep the legislative threshold at 2.5 percent.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Election Law will see major changes after a legislative committee, established to probe alleged election fraud in the 2009 polls, found that many alleged

Reliable Tempo Semanal sources said that the Chief of the East Timorese Defence Force, FALINTIL-FDTL has strongly indicated in public and in private that it is his intention to soon res

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United Development Party announced a novel, if not desperate, plan to rejuvenate its thinning ranks on Wednesday – recruit former members who have jumped

Jakarta – A number of politicians and national figures who joined the mass organization National Democrat (Nasdem), founded by media mogul Surya Paloh, left the organization after a pol

The Democratic Party has not seen its founding members and only seen a few of its senior politicians take a key role in deciding the party's course.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Prosperous Justice Party said the Democratic Party was attempting to distract attention from the ongoing Muhammad Nazaruddin scandal by once again raising

Jakarta – The 7th Congress of the United Development Party (PPP) concluded on Wednesday with Suryadharma Ali being reelected to another five-year term.

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Arya Dipa, Bandung – Incumbent candidate Suryadharma Ali retained his post as United Development Party (PPP) chairman on Tuesday and vowed to return the waning Isla

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ulma Haryanto – Top officials of the Democratic Party, after dismissing allegation of graft among its cadres made by Muhammad Nazaruddin, said on Wednesda

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court held a press conference Tuesday to clarify its decision on the verification process for political parties following misleading reports in the media.

A recent Constitutional Court (MK) decision on the Political Parties Law will have a limited effect on legislative elections in 2014, according to several lawmakers.

Bandung, West Java – Incumbent minister for religious affairs Suryadharma Ali was reelected as the general chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) after gaining 859 votes (72.55

Jakarta – A number of politicians who failed to win seats at the House of Representatives in the 2009 polls claimed they were victims of a conspiracy by members of the poll body and Con

Jakarta – An accountability report delivered by United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma at a party plenary session at Panghegar Hotel in Bandung on Monday was marred by walk

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Amid the growing political turmoil within the ruling Democratic Party, front man Anas Urbaningrum continues to remain silent by refusing to clarify graft all

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's oldest Islamic political party has announced that its national caucus to select a chairman will begin on Sunday in Bandung, even as the rival ca

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita – The Democratic Party has lashed out at a recent survey showing a drop in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's approval

Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's approval rating has taken a major hit, a recent public opinion survey shows, mainly due to the string of sc

Anita Rachman – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's public approval rating has slipped, according to a survey conducted by Indonesian Circle (LSI), citing dissatisfaction with how the

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's legal staff were outraged when outspoken Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud M.D.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) says it wants to regain the public's trust by creating smart, clean and honest members through a system of rewards and puni

Yones Douw, a human rights activist in the Indonesian province of Papua, was beaten by military officers on 15 June and has been denied medical treatment.

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives will next week launch an investigation into alleged polling fraud cases that may have granted seats to the wrong candidates, a legislator sa

Arientha Primanita – While the prospects for a fledgling party seeking to nominate Sri Mulyani Indrawati as its presidential candidate in 2014 look bleak, the impact of the move could n

Stephen Schaber – Aceh will hold its second post-conflict election in November and, according to the International Crisis Group, it will be bitterly contested by two former Free Aceh Mo

Elisabeth Oktofani – Talk of the 2014 elections has been heating up over the past few months, but most of the country's Muslim youth don't seem to have taken much notice.

Arientha Primanita – A group of public figures identifying themselves as supporters of Sri Mulyani Indrawati are seeking to have a controversial law declared unconstitutional in an atte

Anita Rachman – The number of parties in the House of Representatives should be capped at five, according to a proponent of a measure designed to make it harder for smaller parties to g

Jakarta/Brussels – Five years after the first post-conflict elections in Aceh brought former guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM) to power, local elections s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A senior Democratic Party official conceded on Monday that allegations of graft surrounding former treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin had hurt the party.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Political analysts say the Democratic Party needs a breakthrough to halt its recent popularity slide triggered by graft allegations levelled at its former

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Golkar Party legislator Ade Komarudin denied allegations that his party fabricated a recent survey that showed public interest favoring his party.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Imparsial said Lt. Gen.

Anita Rachman – The ruling Democratic Party has taken a serious hit in public perception after being rocked by graft scandals implicating its former treasurer, Muhammad Nazaruddin, acco

Jakarta – Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Pramono Edhie Wibowo have been touted as presidential candidates from the Democratic Party following the President's statement about not grooming pot

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's denial that he was grooming a successor from within his family ahead of the 2014 presidential polls should be taken with