Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who is also the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential hopeful, continues to garner support from workers.

Jakarta – An alliance between the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) will be announced soon, a senior PDI-P politician said on Thursd

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia's controversial presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has secured the support of the country's most charismatic labour leader at a raucous May Day rally

Jakarta – A farmers' union has announced its support for Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's presidential bid.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – After making official its coalition with the National Democratic Party (Nasdem) earlier this month, the Indonesian Democratic Pa

Deti Mega Purnamasari & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Over a month after officially entering the presidential race, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, nominated as presidential can

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – This year's legislative election result doesn't look too good for the Golkar Party.

Ina Parlina and Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Politician Amien Rais, an icon during the 1998 reform movement to topple former president Soeharto, amplified a call on Friday to

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy, Jakarta – The 12 political parties that competed in the April 9 legislative election had campaign funds totaling Rp 3.1 trillion ($272 million), according t

Suara Pembaruan, Jakarta – Golkar Party will decide on Aburizal Bakrie's running mate and the party's coalition partners in next month's national leaders meeting, as it dismissed specul

Jayapura – The call by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) chairperson to boycott the July 9 presidential election in Papua has become a threat for Indonesia and West Papua.

SP/Robertus Wardhy & Vento Saudale, Bogor – Two rival factions of Indonesia's oldest Islamic party agreed on Wednesday to reconcile, following a bitter split that had threatened to

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Prominent clerics from 67 Muslim organizations have called on the five Islamic-based parties to band together in a coalition ahead of the July 9 presidential

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A proposed coalition of Islamic political parties should back a presidential candidate who prays five times a day at a mosque and will cut short cabi

Anastasia Arvirianty, Jakarta – Indonesian presidential frontrunner Joko "Jokowi" Widodo looks to be getting some extra help from the bickering that threatens to undermine his chief riv

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Suspended United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali exacerbated resentment within his party on Sunday after he toured Central Java with the Ger

Jakarta – The United Development Party's (PPP) national leaders meeting (Rapimnas), which concluded early on Sunday, resulted in the decision to temporarily dismiss Suryadharma Ali from

Hans Nicholas Jong, Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali pledged his party's support for Gerindra Party presidential nomin

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The April 9 legislative election has brought two surprising results.

SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Forming a coalition of Islam-based parties may be difficult, following a meeting late on Thursday during which parties appeared

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – A coalition claiming to represent Islamic mass organizations has called on Islamic-based political parties to form an alliance and endorse their own candidat

SP/Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – Indonesia's oldest Islamic party was in turmoil after United Development Party (PPP) chairman and serving Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali expelle

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – With a next round of political campaigning due for the presidential election, experts have called for stricter regulations to ensure fairness in televised polit

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Governor Joko Widodo has been criticized for losing focus on running Southeast Asia's largest city because the of the amount of time he has been forced to spend

Jakarta – Islamic-based political parties have remained key players in politics but never as prime movers, as indicated by their ability to garner a significant share of the legislative

SP/Yoseph Kelen, Kupang – Failure to secure seats in the recent election has begun to impact some legislative candidates who spent exorbitant amounts of money to buy votes, to the exten

SP/Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's much-hyped presidential candidate convention, underway since September, has ended, following the party's drubbing at the recent legisla

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The 15 percent of the popular vote garnered by the Golkar Party in the April 9 legislative election quick count appears to have failed to stop clashes betwee

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and his Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P; former general Prabowo Subianto and his Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra; an

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Saturday that reports of a rift within the party were untrue and that sugge

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Although the legislative election in Aceh on Wednesday was regarded as a success due to a lack of serious security issues, it was still marred by violenc

Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali is on the verge of losing the top job in the country's oldest Islamic-based party fol

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Unmoved by friction within his party, Jakarta Governor and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Media mogul Surya Paloh's National Democratic Party (Nasdem) has announced that it has thrown its support behind Joko Widodo and the Indonesian Democ

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Internal rifts within the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the wake of the party's poorer-than-expected results in Wednesday's legisla

Josua Gantan & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Negative campaigning directed against the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, and the limited ability of the party, better known

Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – An analyst attributed the significant vote increase for the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) to party founder and presidential candidate Prabowo Subia

Hasyim Widhiarto, Margareth S.

Angela Dewan, Jakarta – Indonesia's Muslim parties enjoyed a surprise jump in support at legislative elections this week, but analysts put it more down to anger with a corrupt ruling pa

Josua Gantan & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – With the election results more or less settled, political parties officials have embarked on their quest to cement alliances with oth

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Top politicians detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) went to the polls Wednesday, with many alluding they had supported their own parties.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – More Indonesians headed to the polling stations to cast their votes in this year's election compared to the previous election, in what analysts said was a

Kanupriya Kapoor & Rieka Rahadiana, Jakarta – Indonesia's likely next leader may have a bumpier-than-expected route to the presidential palace after early counting in Wednesday's pa

Michael Bachelard, Indonesia – Joko Widodo, the man most likely to stride the world stage as Indonesia's next president, had no sooner made his way onto Metro TV's live election night s

Michael Bachelard, Indonesia – Indonesia's most popular politician, Joko Widodo, has failed to propel his party to the heights expected of him in Wednesday's parliamentary election.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Executive director of the Cyrus Network Hasan Hasbi said the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) was unlikely to garner 30 percent of the vote as

Jakarta – A clash between Army soldiers and armed separatists erupted in Mulia, the capital of Puncak Jaya regency, on Wednesday when people in other parts of Papua province flocked to