Jakarta – Media magnate Hary Tanoesoedibjo on Saturday launched to great fanfare a new political party called the United Indonesia Party (Perindo).

East Timor's president Taur Matan Ruak has accepted Xanana Gusmao's resignation as prime minister, leaving the former resistance fighter to wind down his celebrated career.

Dili – East Timor's president is expected to decide on a new prime minister by the end of this week after accepting the resignation of independence hero Xanana Gusmao, the government said in a stat

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Tom Allard – East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has offered his resignation to the country's president, paving the way for a new government that will share power among the country's usually

Gantry Meliana, Dili, East Timor – East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao resigned as prime minister Friday, stepping down ahead of an expected restructuring of the government next week.

Marcelino Pereira, Jakarta – Timor Leste's prime minister and independence hero Xanana Gusmao has resigned, the government said on Friday, but a successor has yet to be chosen.

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Marcelino Pereira, Dili – East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao is meeting the president this week to discuss a possible government restructuring, sending perhaps the strongest signal yet that

Jakarta – A court has thrown out a challenge to tycoon Aburizal Bakrie's leadership of the Golkar Party, dealing a blow to the reformist faction led by Agung Laksono.

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Ezra Sihite, Kennial Caroline Laia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo on Thursday met with his former rival and opposition leader Prabowo Subianto, which analysts say c

Daniel Flitton – East Timor's independence hero and former guerrilla fighter Xanana Gusmao has told colleagues he will resign as Prime Minister in the next fortnight.

Sara Everingham – East Timor's government is undergoing a restructure with the country's prime minister Xanana Gusmao likely to announce his retirement from the role within weeks.

Jakarta – Analysts and politicians have called for President Joko Widodo to break away from his political patron, Megawati Soekarnoputri, after a politician in the Indonesian Democratic Party of St

Jakarta – Negotiations between two conflicting camps in the Golkar Party were deadlocked on Thursday, and the two sides have agreed to settle the conflict in court.

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Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Tuesday ratified into law an emergency government regulation that restores direct elections of regional leaders in Indonesia.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) will organize 204 simultaneous local elections this year following the endorsement by the House of Representatives of government

Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – House Commission II for home affairs has approved a presidential regulation in lieu of law that reinstates direct regional elections in Indonesia.

Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri announced her own appointment on Saturday as the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle for another five-year term, extending her

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Jakarta – Political observers are predicting the National Mandate Party's congress, scheduled for Feb.

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Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Reconciliation efforts carried out by the two opposing camps in the United Development Party (PPP) have ended in another deadlock after the faction supporting the ruling

Jakarta – The youth wing of the Golkar Party has proposed a new congress to reconcile two conflicting factions in the party and has asked candidates from both sides to run for chairperson.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The first half of 2015 is forecasted to be a period of political uncertainties in Indonesia, with the administration of President Joko Widodo reeling from decli

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Events surrounding Indonesia's third direct presidential election in July have fueled internal conflicts within some parties, culminating in a schism now afflic

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The year 2014 was a milestone in Indonesia's young democracy, the country successfully holding one of the largest elections in the world.

Jakarta – Senior Golkar Party politician Muladi expressed pessimism on the possibility of ending the dispute between the two Golkar factions through the party's internal dispute committ

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Voters who anticipated casting ballots in local elections in seven provinces and 181 regencies and municipalities in 2015 will likely have to wait longer b

Jakarta – A political analyst predicts the Golkar Party, which is currently being rocked by an internal rift, risks becoming a minor party in the 2019 general elections.

Paulina Quintao – Member of Parliament Antoninho Bianco has warned citizens that providing false information to receive more than one voting card is a criminal offence.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government is standing with the decision to issue two government regulations in lieu of law (Perppu) that will bring back a direct-election mechanism for loca

Hasyim Widhiarto and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – In contrast to his very firm stance in handling the United Development Party (PPP) internal conflict, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie risks alienating supporters, experts say, after unilaterally reversing his party's earlier s

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Even though his Golkar Party chairmanship was yet to be legalized, Agung Laksono and his men occupied the party's headquarters in a show of force before the

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Jakarta – When the late dictator Suharto wanted to undermine the political opposition to his iron-fisted rule, he did it from the inside, sowing seeds of discontent that fractured any s

Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's leadership rift took a new turn late on Monday after disputed chairman Agung Laksono said his camp planned to file a lawsuit against a ri

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Only two days after securing his reelection as Golkar Party chairman, Aburizal Bakrie now faces fresh challenges to his leadership after a breakaway faction

Robertus Wardhy & Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – The Democratic Party will attempt to join with Joko Widodo's coalition to fight to retain direct elections for regional representatives, p

Desy Nurhayati, Nusa Dua, Bali – With little resistance from his party opponents Aburizal Bakrie easily won by acclamation the leadership of the Golkar Party for a second term on Wednes

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto, the chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, made an appearance at the Golkar Party congress in Bali on Thursday,

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Novi Setuningsih, Bali/Jakarta – Jusuf Kalla has warned the Golkar Party that the public will take a dim view of its leadership election being conducted i

Jakarta – Supporters of Romahurmuziy, the newly elected chairman of the United Development Party (PPP), stormed the party's headquarters in Menteng, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday in an ef

When the dust settles from the Golkar Party's national congress in Bali to pick a new leader, it will be the opposition Red-White coalition, or KMP, that emerges the real winner of the