Jakarta – Senior lawyer and human rights activist Adnan Buyung Nasution has urged people not to choose 36 names recently listed by the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW), as legislative

Ina Parlina and Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – By recruiting his brother-in-law former Army chief Gen.

Jakarta – The Democratic Party has approved the membership of former Indonesian Army chief Gen.

Ben Bland – Lunch with Prabowo Subianto, the former special forces commander who is running to be president of Indonesia, was never destined to be straightforward.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – An new opinion poll by the state-run Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has found that the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) could suffer virtual annihi

More than half of Indonesians say they are unhappy with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's leadership performance, adding to the weight of evidence that the leader has lost his touch

SP/Robertus Wardi – With his popularity steadily skyrocketing, political analysts have said that Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo is considered the man to beat in the 2014 presidential elec

Jakarta – The political system in Indonesia is controlled by a capitalist oligarchy.

Carlos Paath – The fact the country's biggest Islamic party remains in the ruling coalition despite its opposition to a fuel price hike signals the increasingly tenuous grip that Presid

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Quick count results show only some 57 percent of voters in Bandung turned up to vote in the mayoral election as Ridwan Kamil and his running mate lead the count on

Jakarta – Not only are political parties nominating more female candidates for the 2014 legislative election but some are placing 10 at the top of their candidate lists, a study has sho

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SP/Hotman Siregar – A group supporting Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's presidential candidacy has officially set itself up as a formal organization, one of its executives said o

Woodwing Importer – Djoko Santoso, the former military chief of staff, has thrown his hat into the ring for next year's presidential election, adding to the already swelling ranks of ex

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have become the latest to jump on the bandwagon of Joko Widodo, the Jakarta governor and front-runner

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, who leads popularity polls for Indonesia's presidential election next year, affirmed his allegiance to the party of former leader Megawati Soekarnoputri an

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) claimed on Wednesday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono kicked the party out of the ruling coalition for rejecting the upc

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Amid speculation that Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri could still run for president in 2014, political ana

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The death of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) patron Taufiq Kiemas will leave the party more centered on his widow, former president Megawati

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo would emerge an easy winner if Indonesia's presidential election were held today, a political analyst said on Sunday.

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – Analysts have predicted that the Prosperous Justice Party's tough stance against the government's plan to increase the price of subsidized fuel will not bo

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has yet to make a decision regarding the fate of the "rebellious" Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Ezra Sihite & Yeremia Sukoyo – The ruling Democratic Party on Thursday demanded that coalition partner the Prosperous Justice Party swiftly remove banners

Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairman Anis Matta denied rumors that the party was adopting Wahhabism as residents of Sampang, Madura, East Java protested his visit to the area on thos

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – A coalition of women's rights groups report that cases of violence against women have been on the rise in Aceh in the past two years.

Jakarta – Election watchdog the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) predicted that political parties will use election campaigns to collect as much illicit funding as pos

Kanupriya Kapoor & Andrew R.C. Marshall – Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, might well be the future of Indonesian democracy. Here's why.

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – Prabowo Subianto, a former Army general widely considered the leading candidate for next year's presidential election, says he will not be swayed by a rece

Yeremia Sukoyo – A former Islamic student leader says that senior figures in religious political parties have been lured into foolish decisions by attractive women seeking to tarnish th

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Jakarta – Tired with corruption and bickering among politicians, young voters have deferred their decisions about who they might vote for in next year's presidential election, hoping th

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Popular support for Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo to run for president next year continues to mount, despite his insistence that he wants to see out his job at City Hall before consideri

Endy Bayuni, Jakarta – Corruption scandals may be hurting every major political party in Indonesia, but when such allegations hit the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), they have the poten

In his work Indonesia's Accountability Trap: Party Cartels and Presidential Power after Democratic Transition, Dan Slater, an observer of Indonesian politics at the University of Chicag

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Only a small minority of candidates aspiring to run in the 2014 legislative election managed to pass the verification process at the General Elections Comm

Ina Parlina, National – The two-week deadline has passed but the central government and the Aceh provincial administration are no closer to resolving the controversial plan to change th

Carlos Paath – Next year's legislative election is unlikely to yield any dramatic improvement in the quality of members of the House of Representatives, because political parties have s

Carlos Paath & Rizky Amelia – Activists have welcomed a new regulation that will allow greater scrutiny of the way political parties and legislative candidates receive and spend cam

Banda Aceh – As many as 1,231 legislative candidates from across Aceh will take a Koran recital test organized by the Aceh Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIP) as part of a r

Ina Parlina – Political parties are reaping the benefit of incumbency, nominating almost all their currently serving lawmakers for reelection to the House of Representatives in 2014, a

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police in Aceh suspect a political motive is behind the murder of a local politician who was gunned down by unknown assailants on Friday morning.

Jakarta – An online petition against forest clearance in Aceh has the support of 20,000 netizens.

SP/Carlos Paath – Candidates running in Indonesia's legislative elections must be prepared to spend at least Rp 1 billion ($103,000), a legislator said on Tuesday.

Carlos Paath – Winning public office in Indonesia is a costly proposition, and the longer-than-usual campaign period ahead of the 2014 legislative election will require successful candi

The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party is charging its legislative candidates Rp 300 million (US$30,9000) to pay for logistical expenses during the balloting process.

Carlos Paath – Indonesian political party officials are publicly adamant that TV stars' ready-made public profiles have nothing to do with their selection as legislative candidates.

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Jakarta – Soon after the country decided that regional heads should be democratically elected, local political dynasties emerged as a new political force.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Democratic Party has revealed its new leadership lineup, with the relatives of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and members of his inner circle appoint