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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

James Massola, Jakarta – Joko Widodo is running late.

Tasha Wibawa – In Indonesia's upcoming presidential elections this week, thousands of West Papuans will be voting differently from the rest of the nation, despite the province being cl

Manokwari, W Papua – Foreign journalists and monitoring institutions can monitor general elections in Indonesia, particularly Manokwari, West Papua province, if they secure permits and

Erwida Maulia and Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's signature infrastructure drive dominated his final TV debate with opponent Prabowo Subianto before

Nur Yasmin Jakarta – BTP, the acronym for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the ex-Jakarta governor formerly known as Ahok, uploaded another vlog on YouTube on Saturday (13/04) to explain why he

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – While the presidential candidates made the final pitches in their political campaigns, activists from various backgrounds gathered at the offices of the Indonesia

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The fifth and last presidential debate on Saturday touched on the issue of nationalism in the economy as well as inequality, but all

Christian Lee, Jakarta – Starting from today, Indonesian voters will go through masa tenang, a mandatory three-day "quiet period" before heading to the polling booths on Wednesday (17/

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo drew the curtain on his reelection campaign with a final rally at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium (GBK) in Jakarta on Sat

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – One thing vice-presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno loves to do during presidential debates, is relate anecdotes of the moms he has met on his campaign trail.

In what was once a roadside food stall in Kampung Baru, a village in eastern Java, a group of housewives is preparing food for a wedding.

Christian Lee, Jakarta – Pre-marked ballots for Indonesia's presidential and legislative elections found in Malaysia have sparked a war of words over what is seen as the latest attempt

Kate Lamb, Palembang – Prabowo Subianto is not the type of man you want to inadvertently enrage – especially not while seated directly across from him in his private jet, flying thousa

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A top Democratic Party official has slammed presidential contender Prabowo Subianto over his remark in which he blamed the nation's economic ills on President

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto opened the final presidential debate on Saturday with an indictment of the Indonesian economy,

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A rock-concert-like atmosphere pervaded inside the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium in Jakarta as tens of thousands of people sang along to legendary r

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Indonesian election authorities in Malaysia have ensured that the voting process for Malaysia-based voters will be held on Sunday as scheduled despite the ongo

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Kanupriya Kapoor, Garut – When Wawan Setiawan, a volunteer for Indonesian President Joko Widodo's re-election campaign, goes door-to-door in this conservative p

Jakarta – Mikhail Gorbachev is running for office in Indonesian elections next week, but it's not the octogenarian ex-Soviet leader who helped bring an end to the Cold War.

Tom Stayner, SBS News – A West Papuan independence leader and Nobel peace prize nominee is calling for a mass boycott of Indonesia's upcoming elections to bring attention to their inde

Jakarta – The website KawalPemilu.org has officially invited the campaign teams of incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto to use its platform to mo

Ian Morse – Indonesia is one of the world's agricultural and mineral breadbaskets.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Standing up through the sunroof of a van, Prabowo Subianto leans down to shake hands and accept cash - sometimes bags of it – from tens of thousands of cheering s

Jakarta – Thirty-nine out of the 40 districts in Jayawijaya regency, Papua, will vote using the noken system during the simultaneous general election on April 17.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A video of people raiding an empty store in Selangor, Malaysia, and unpacking several bags containing marked ballots in favo