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Indonesia Gears Up For Presidential Election

The General Election Commission (KPU) has started the process of the implementation of the July 9 presidential ...

Golkar Chairman Given Mandate To Decide Over Coalition

The Leadership meeting of the Golkar Party here on Sunday gave the mandate to its General Chairman Aburizal Bakrie to ...

Three Alliances Likely To Compete in 2014 Presidential Race

The Golkar Party and ruling Democratic Party (PD) are discussing the possibility of forming an alliance in a bid to ...

Ansor to support NU cadres in presidential race

Ansor, the youth wing of one of Indonesia's largest Islamic organizations Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has pledged to support ...

Next govt must focus on fighting corruption: President

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stated that fighting corruption should become one of the main tasks of the next ...

Next president should continue pro-people programs

The next president who is elected in the upcoming presidential race should continue pro-people programs laid down by ...

President Yudhoyono focuses on running administration until October 2014

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has stated that he still focuses on running the administration until October 2014, ...

Voters defy preliminary electability surveys on Islamic-based parties

Most Islamic-based parties should thank survey institutes for issuing the polls showing that their prospects would be ...

Indonesian new president must maintain anti-graft body: Hikmahanto

Honorary Council Secretary of the Constitutional Court (MK) Hikmahanto Juwana said that the next president who would ...

Islamic-based parties can form coalition

The Islamic-based political parties have the potential to form a coalition to nominate presidential and vice ...

Parties opt to pragmatism in coalition: observer

A political observer has predicted that political parties will base their considerations on pragmatism and realistic ...

Indonesian major parties need coalition government

Electoral contestants in Wednesdays (April 9) legislative elections will need a coalition to form a government as, ...

Indonesia to close its border gate with PNG

Indonesia will close its border gate with Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the runup to its legislative elections on April 9, ...

PKS targets big three in 2014 legislative elections

The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the fourth largest electoral contestant in the 2009 legislative elections, has set ...

Jakarta police to deploy 18,000 personnel to secure election activities

The Jakarta Police will deploy about 18,000 personnel to secure all activities during the 2014 general election ...