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Jakarta – Despite having issued two government regulations in lieu of law (Perppu) to bring back direct elections for regional heads, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono does not deserve

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Jakarta – Opponents of President-elect Joko Widodo have successfully gained control of the House of Representatives' leadership and have begun forming plans to install their own members

Ina Parlina, Hasyim Widhiarto and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The configuration of party coalitions in the House of Representatives will decide the fate of the government regulation i

Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces army commander, lost the battle for Indonesia's presidency, both at ballot booths and in court.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Experts warn that the newly passed regional elections (Pilkada) bill, which mandates indirect local elections, contradicts the Indonesian presidential syste

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) said on Wednesday that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to issue an emergency presidential decree to cancel a newly passed law abolishing dir

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – With two recent laws passed that might work against the effectiveness of his incoming administration, President-elect Jok

Jakarta – Dozens of individuals from the volunteer group Bara JP held a rally outside the Presidential Palace on Tuesday, protesting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's failure to dema

Adelia Anjani Putri, Erwida Maulia & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – If Indonesians thought the abolishment last week of their right to elect regional heads was the end of the country's da

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Fears are growing in Indonesia that the coalition of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto intends to mess further with the country's democracy.

Jakarta – In their anger at the decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to allow his Democratic Party lawmakers to walk out of a crucial vote to scrap the direct election of loca

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Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia's hard-won democracy, which emerged from the bloody reform movement of 1998 that ended Soeharto's three decades of dictator

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Anger turned into activism as hundreds of concerned citizens took to the streets on Sunday to stage peaceful protests throughout the country to mobilize support

Tri Susanto Setiawan, Febriana Firdaus, Prihandoko, Jakarta – After abolishing the direct election of regional heads by the people, Prabowo Subianto's Red and White Coalition has initia

Erwida Maulia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Election watchdogs and a lawyer association are among a string of different organizations planning to file a judicial review to t

Solo – A document detailing the division of parliamentary leadership positions allegedly agreed to by members of Prabowo Subianto's Red and White coalition and the Democrat Party has be

Muhammad Kiblat, Makassar – The leadership crisis plaguing the United Development Party (PPP) broke down further at the weekend after two factions faced off at a meeting to declare a re

Ina Parlina and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Amid public pressure, the Democratic Party is launching a probe into the decision made by its lawmakers to walk out during a crucial vote o

Yuliasri Perdani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Critics have suggested that the irresolute stance of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party in the deliberation of the controv

Yuliasri Perdani, Bambang Muryanto and Ainur Rohmah, Jakarta/Yogyakarta/Semarang – The House of Representatives' decision to scrap direct elections of regional heads has sparked widespr

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Political parties appeared to have secured a lock on regional administrations following the passage of the regional elections (Pilkada) law, which will vest Regio

New York – Veteran East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao said Thursday he's pushing back plans to stand down as the fledgling nation's prime minister.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement that he would refuse to sign the law that scraps direct regional elections has no constitutional basis or

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party to walk away from direct local elections is a terrible depart

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – An internal council within the United Development Party (PPP) has decided to maintain the leadership of party chairman Suryadharma Ali, following attempts

Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – Indonesians took to social media on Friday to channel their anger and disappointment at the House of Representatives' decision to scrap direct elections o

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Amid the public anger and harsh criticism, the Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, defended the House of Representatives' decision to end di

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Fears have been raised for Indonesia's democracy after its parliament voted to abolish direct election of local leaders, a key post-dictatorship reform credited wit

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – It was billed as a scrap that would go down to the wire, a vote to determine Indonesia's democratic credentials. In the end, it wasn't even close.

Sabrina Asril, Jakarta – Democrat Party (DP) politician and lawmaker Ruhut Sitompul claims that they decided to walkout before a vote on a draft law on regional elections after being or

Nala Edwin, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's Red and White Coalition has succeeded in returning the election of regional heads into the hands of Regional Representative Councils (DPRD) as i

Dany Permana, Jakarta – Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) board of patrons chairperson Prabowo Subianto says he is grateful that the mechanism for electing regional heads thro

Muhammad Muhyiddin, Jakarta – The walkout by 129 members of the Democratic Party faction just prior to the House of Representatives (DPR) vote on the Draft Law on Regional Elections (RU

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two factions of the United Development Party (PPP), locked in a bitter leadership dispute, have both announced their intention to hold a congress in

Suherdjoko, Semarang – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)'s national meeting ended one day ahead of schedule on Saturday evening in Semarang with a number of recommenda

Jakarta – Gerindra Party patron Prabowo Subianto has been appointed as the party's chairman, replacing the late chairman Suhardi.

Suherdjoko and Ainur Rohmah, Semarang/Jakarta – Top-ranking officials of the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the United Development Party (PPP) were greeted as heroes upon their arriva

Ina Parlina and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Although the Democratic Party has officially announced its support for direct elections, the election for regional head (Pilkada) bill is s

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The Gerindra Party has officially named Aryo Winoto, the nephew of the late president Soeharto, to run for the Bantul regent's office.

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Rieka Rahadiana & Neil Chatterjee – Indonesia's incoming president began his political ascent as a mayor in a system of local elections.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Support from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the direct-election of local heads is expected to help the campaign to maintain the 2004 law on regional

Jakarta – The third national leaders meeting (Rapimnas) of the United Development Party (PPP) has announced that Emron Pangkapi will be the party's new chairman, according to a PPP offi

Yuliasri Perdani and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As the six factions under Prabowo Subianto's Red-and-White Coalition maintain their stance, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggl

Jakarta – Gerindra Party deputy chief Fadli Zon says the country's founding philosophy, Pancasila, legitimizes indirect elections.

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