As Indonesians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, the East Timor Action Network (ETAN) stated, "No matter which presidential candidate prevails, the Indonesian military has already w

Indonesia's Presidential election could herald significant changes to the way the government runs the country.

Kurniawan Hari and Luh Putu Trisna Wahyuni, Jakarta/Mataram – Golkar politicians suspended from the party for refusing to back Megawati Soekarnoputri in Monday's presidential election r

Jakarta/Indramayu/Jayapura – While not declaring a controversial quiz a violation of campaign regulations, the Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu) demanded its halt on Thursday.

Donggala – Central Sulawesi General Election Commission (KPU) has fired the chief of Donggala Municipality KPU Abdullah Malabang and his four subordinates for vote markup in the July 5

Tiarma Siboro and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A number of national figures, grouped in the newly launched Cultural Movement for Reform, signed a declaration on Thursday to support the

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Jakarta/Surabaya/Makassar – Confronted with a limited campaign period and the vast expanse of the country, candidates of the September 20 runoff have decided to turn to print and electr

Jakarta – Two foreign agencies officially registered to monitor the presidential election runoff have arrived here to observe the poll from the opening until vote counting.

Kurniawan Hari and Suherdjoko, Jakarta/Semarang – The Golkar Party dismissed Jusuf Kalla, a member of the party and the running mate of election front-runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, f

Ong Hock Chuan, Jakarta – There has been a fundamental shift in how President Megawati Soekarnoputri communicates.

Indonesia's presidential candidates pledged to get tough on terrorism as official campaigning began for the country's first direct leadership polls – a contest overshadowed by a deadly

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The much-awaited dialog involving the presidential candidates and their running mates failed to draw much public interest on Tuesday, with less than hal

With surveys favouring her suave presidential poll rival, Indonesia's Megawati Sukarnoputri has sought to shed an aloof and uncaring image and rebrand herself as a go-getting and attent

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Jakarta – Over 70 lawyers have pledged to defend a coalition of five non-governmental organizations that has been reported to the police by the General Elections Commission (KPU) for de

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The twin-engine Fokker swooped down in the afternoon heat, kicking up yellow dust that snaked across the bumpy airport tarmac.

Devi Asmarani, Kupang – The provincial legislature building on this eastern Indonesian island some 2,000km from Jakarta looks abandoned just days after new councillors took over.

Salim Osman – Retired colonel Poedjiyono is a picture of confidence as he entertains guests at his house in Margorejo on the outskirts of Surabaya.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Taufik Kiemas, the powerful husband of incumbent President Megawati Soekarnoputri, has continued distributing donations across the country, a move that has

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's central board has issued a circular ordering all regional chapters to support the reelection bid of President Megawati Soekarnoputri in the

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – It was billed as the wedding of the year.

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ID Nugroho and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Two weeks to go before the election runoff on September 20, both presidential candidates are availing of every opportunity they can to wo

Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) clerics have issued conflicting statements to voters grouped in the country's largest Muslim organisation in the run-up to the September 20 presidential p

Jakarta – The Golkar Party has officially reprimanded all members who have defied the party's official decision to support Megawati Soekarnoputri in the presidential election runoff on

Richel Langit, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Akbar Tanjung is not contesting the September 20 election, nor is he a member of either political party whose candidates advanced to the s

Jakarta – The presidential election runoff will mark the end of the political career of the outgoing Vice President Hamzah Haz, who announced on Friday that he would retire from politic

Jakarta (Agencies) – A number of executives from the Golkar Party defiantly set up a faction to support the candidacy of the Democratic Party's presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yud

Jakarta – Indonesian presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday told a pre-poll corruption check that he was worth 4.57 billion rupiah (S$848,000), a sum likely to be dwa

Jakarta – A rift in Indonesia's powerful Golkar party deepened yesterday, threatening to pull the rug from under President Megawati Sukarnoputri's carefully assembled coalition just wee

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Can President Megawati Soekarnoputri, and the country's governors, regents and legislators really claim to represent the people?

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Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – In an apparent move to prove their will to fight corruption, presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and vice presidential candidate Hasyim Mu

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – An internal rift within the Golkar Party has led several party leaders to split ranks from the party's pro-President Megawati Soekarnoputri Nationhood Coalition

Jakarta – Media-shy President Megawati Sukarnoputri, trailing in opinion polls weeks before the election, has refused her opponent's offer for a televised debate on issues confronting t

Jun Honna, the author of the book Military Politics and Democratization in Indonesia (2003), and an associate professor at Ritsumeiken University in Japan, has been in Indonesia for abo

Jakarta – Ex-president Abdurrahman Wahid has thrown his weight behind President Megawati Sukarnoputri's rival in next month's election but said his party had yet to decide which candida

Political coalitions with several parties, including the Golkar Party and the United Development Party (PPP), may not be enough for presidential candidate Megawati Soekarnoputri and her

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Two former presidential candidates have elected not to support either Megawati Soekarnoputri or Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the September 20 election runoff, bu

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Leaders of the so-termed national coalition of four major parties held their first plenary meeting on Friday, to consolidate their ra

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Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Three daughters of founding president Sukarno look set to bury their hatchets for a family reunion ahead of the election runoff, which will see the elde

Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations said on Friday it would press ahead with its drive to unravel the corruption allegations plaguing the General Elections Commissio

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Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is on shaky ground with ethnic Chinese after comments by his running mate Jusuf Kalla were taken as discriminato

Adhi Pratomo, Jakarta – Activists from the Student and People's Alliances Against RUU TNI (Aliansi Mahasiswa dan Rakyat Tolak RUU TNI) believe that the RUU TNI (Rancangan Undang-Undang

Phar Kim Beng – Indonesia is a country renowned for its far-flung geography and cultural complexities. With 13,000 islands to its name, it cannot claim anything less.

Heavyweight political parties have long held sway in Indonesia, but the emergence of a new breed of voter more likely to listen to media or even mystics for guidance has robbed them of