Widodo and Prabowo call for reconciliation
The winner and runner-up in Indonesia’s presidential election call for reconciliation.
Tag: Prabowo Subianto
Indonesian cops air video on foiled terror plot
Indonesian police air video testimony for a plot to kill government officials.
Indonesia’s troubled democracy
Images of rioting by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta have been beamed around the world this week, tainting what was otherwise a free, fair and peaceful election in the world’s third biggest democracy.
Widodo officially declared polls winner
Indonesia’s Joko Widodo has been re-elected as president of the world’s third-biggest democracy.
Jokowi bets on infrastructure boom
Indonesia’s presidential election is on April 17. President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo is pushing in his bid for re-election, challenged strongly by the late Suharto’s son-in-law Prabowo Subianto. But the incumbent president seems to have an ace up his sleeve.
President Widodo’s lead over challenger shrinking: Poll
A new Indonesian election survey shows Widodo’s big lead over his challenger.
Old Indonesian soldiers never die
Several retired senior military officers have declared their support for either incumbent President Joko Widodo or his challenger Prabowo Subianto in the upcoming April 2019 presidential election.
A challenge to Indonesia’s democratic achievement
Indonesians go to the polls in April to choose either a strongman candidate – an Indonesian Bolsonaro – or an incumbent whose democratic commitment looks to be fraying.
Identity politics loom large in Indonesia’s presidential election
The running mate of the Indonesian president is remembered for his hand in toppling Jakarta governor Ahok on charges of blasphemy. Is this President Joko Widodo’s secret formula for mobilising the electorally critical Islamic constituency?
More officers in politics, more democracy?
Several military and police generals have announced their candidacies for Indonesia’s 2018 simultaneous regional elections before they retire from active service.
