Indonesia pulled off a complex yet peaceful election across its vast – and ethnically diverse – island territory this week, cementing its place as a democratic beacon in a sea of autho

After presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto declared victory yesterday, despite clearly losing to incumbent President Joko Widodo in the quick count results done by every survey grou

After a long, bitter, but largely uneventful campaign, Indonesians have finally had their say.

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – The top brass of the Indonesian military and police met on Thursday (18/04), a day after Indonesians went to the polls to elect a president and legislative re

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has been called on to investigate and make a decision on whether to carry out a revote, following reports of the discove

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – General Elections Committee (KPU) Chairman Arief Budiman announced that the 2019 general elections Indonesia held yesterday garnered high participation level accu

When Gerindra Chairman Prabowo Subianto declared victory yesterday, despite quick count results all pointing to a victory for President Joko Widodo, the conspicuous absence of his runn

Arys Aditya, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo has claimed victory in the country's election, citing unofficial quick count results from Wednesday's voting and settin

Anne Barker == "I will be a president for all Indonesians." No, they are not the words of a victorious Joko Widodo, who looked certain last night to have won a second term as Indonesia

Jakarta – Supporters of presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Sandiaga Uno plan to gather around the National Monument (Monas) on Friday afternoon to celebrate the

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The 2019 legislative election has left little surprise as major parties are expected to keep the status quo in the country's legislative assemblies.

Nur Yasmin & Christian Lee, Jakarta – The Indonesia Solidarity Party, or PSI, has surprised many by attracting the fourth-most votes – based on quick-count results – in Jakarta in

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto again declared victory on Thursday afternoon – his third time since the April 17 election.

Jakarta – Following the legislative elections held on Wednesday, the newcomer Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), championed by many young urban middle class voters, seems set to fall s

The infamous leader of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Rizieq Shihab, is said to have already voted in Mecca (where the one-time pornography suspect still lives in self-imposed exil

For the last few weeks, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and some of his senior supporters have made numerous accusations of vote fraud in order to cast doubt on the integrity o

Violence has broken out again in Indonesia's Papua province, where tensions are high as the nation goes to the polls today.

Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, Jakarta – It looked like a haunted house straight out of an amusement park: Blood-stained sheets, makeshift graves and rows of ghastly faces painted white.

Krithika Varagur – Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, Indonesia's president since 2014, and most likely until 2024, had every reason to gloat on Wednesday afternoon.

Made Anthony Iswara and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Presidential contender Prabowo Subianto claimed victory over the 2019 presidential election on Wednesday afternoon, hours befor

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – At least 160,000 residents of two districts in Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua, will vote in the general election on April 18 after logistical glitche

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on members of the public to reunite as brothers and sisters following the bitterly contested presidential el

Made Anthony Iswara and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Prabowo has claimed a lead over incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in Indonesia's presidential election, just a few hours after sev

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and running mate Ma'ruf Amin secured the most votes at polling station 02 Selong in Kebayoran Baru, South Jaka

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Indonesia held the world's biggest one-day 2019 presidential and legislative elections, marked by millions of citizens casting ballots at some 800,000 pollin

Muhammad Al Azhari & Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto has claimed victory in Wednesday's presidential election, based on internal data compiled by his campaign team, whil

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – Voters casting their ballots in polling station (TPS) 110 located within the SMK Yasda Islamic vocational school compound in Kuningan, South Jakarta, were surp

Those hoping to follow real-time election results tomorrow can do so starting 3pm Western Indonesia Time (WIB) and no earlier, as the Constitutional Court (MK) has rejected a petition

Jayapura, Indonesia – From sending ballot boxes by elephant in Sumatra to keeping voters safe in Papua's rebel territory, Indonesia is pulling out all the stops for one of the world's

Fanny Potkin, Jakarta – More than 10,000 people have volunteered to crowd-source election results posted at polling stations across Indonesia on Wednesday in a real-time bid to thwart

Eve Warburton – There are plenty of reasons to view this year's presidential elections in Indonesia as less polarising than the last.

James Massola, Jakarta – More than 190 million Indonesians will be able to vote in the largest single-day election exercise in the world on Wednesday, with President Joko "Jokowi" Wido

Leonard C Sebastian, Singapore – The current political mood in Indonesia is deeply polarised.

Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is famous for many things besides politics, such as his marriage to Suharto's second daughter, his service to Indonesia as a former general, his

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Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – On the eve of Wednesday's presidential election, undecided voters may want to participate in a quiz designed to assess how one's personal political views

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has formed a team to monitor Wednesday's general election.

David Fettling – Haris Azhar thinks both Indonesia's presidential candidates are incompetent, that the issues they debate are nonsense, that both seek to protect the status quo.

Angus Watson – As Indonesia's presidential candidates draw massive crowds to rallies across the country, leaders in the resource-rich but restive twin provinces of Papua and West Papua

Before he was released from prison in January, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the former Jakarta governor formerly known as Ahok, requested that people call him BTP instead as prison had chan

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who is better known as "Jokowi," is up for re-election on Wednesday.

Endy M. Bayuni – From the start, the April 17 Indonesian presidential election was going to be an unequal race.

Indonesia's general elections are this Wednesday but millions of Indonesians living overseas had their chance to vote over the weekend at polling booths set up across the planet.

Jonathan Chen – Various minority groups in Indonesia face an inconvenient truth: whoever wins the election, they will end up losing, as candidates ignore minority interests in favour o

Liam Gammon, Sydney – When Joko Widodo was first a candidate for Indonesia's presidency five years ago, one might have looked to his successful career in local government for clues as

Apriadi Gunawan and Suherdjoko, Medan – Over the weekend, only days before the elections, some of the country's youth staged rallies to encourage people to vote while protest voters, w

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Ed Davies, Jakarta – When Indonesian President Joko Widodo was elected five years ago, the former furniture salesman seemed to offer a clean break from the military and political elite

Jakarta – In a rare departure from his xenophobic rhetoric, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto praised China for its drastic reduction of poverty over the past 40 years, a feat he

Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – For more than a year now, politics has dominated the real and virtual conversations of Indonesian journalists.