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An old idea suddenly became an urgent project: Indonesia is going to build a new capital. It has no name yet, only a working title: Ibu Kota Baru, New Capital City. What do the people who live there think of that? What interests are being served? And who’s going to pay for it? Kris Vanslambrouck (...)
The rapprochement between Widodo and Prabowo has ended the rhetorical contestation and apparent ideological polarisation in Indonesian politics, with the more conservative and right-wing Islamic political groups now marginalised.
The government and the parliament are adopting a policy package (...)
He was once a boy scout and member of a patriotic flag-raising team in high school.
But with student protests sweeping Jakarta and other cities in recent months in some of the worst civil unrest to hit Indonesia in decades, Manik Marganamahendra has emerged as an anti-establishment icon. (...)
In announcing his new cabinet on Oct 23, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has underscored a desire for continuity, both for economic policy as well as political strategy.
On the economic front, it is unlikely that we will see new policy issues take centre stage in the near to medium (...)
The betrayal of the mandate of reformasi — the political reform movement that began in 1998 — has angered Indonesia’s youth, students and the ordinary people.
Tens of thousands of people in Banda Aceh, Riau, Medan, Palembang, Lampung, Bogor, Jakarta, Bandung, Cirebon, Semarang, Yogyakarta, (...)
Since Sept 23, there have been student demonstrations in almost every province of Indonesia against numerous new Bills being tabled and passed by the outgoing Parliament. The first protest in the university town of Yogyakarta saw a turnout of 15,000 students, despite the rally call going out (...)
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s annual state of the nation speech, which he delivered on Friday ahead of Indonesia’s 74th Independence Day, covered wide-ranging topics including the development of human capital and the imminent relocation of the country’s capital city to Kalimantan.
However, (...)
Jakarta — Raids on leftist books discussing communism and the banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) have started again. Shortly after the police and military seized leftist books from a book stall in Probolinggo on July 27, a similar incident occurred in the South Sulawesi provincial capital (...)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Joko Widodo and Maruf Amin have been declared the winner in the 2019 Presidential elections, with a 11% lead over Prabowo and Sandiaga Uno. Prabowo is disputing the elections in the Constitutional Court. All the parties supporting Prabowo are accepting the results of the (...)
While most reputable pollsters show that Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is likely to win the 2019 presidential election, their early vote count results reveal that the incumbent is likely to suffer heavy losses in several provinces, but gain significant support in others.
According to quick counts by (...)
Indonesia’s incumbent president, Joko Widodo, won the country’s general elections on 17 April 2019, beating his rival, Prabowo Subianto, who had a nefarious military past. A victory for democracy? It’s not that simple…
The election result will only be officially announced in a month’s time. For (...)
One might expect that the key issues in the 2019 election would revolve around the completion of the democratization process in the post-Suharto era. But that discourse seems completely out of place today. Two issues appear to preoccupy rival Indonesian politicians at present: the role of (...)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday declared victory in a presidential election to lead the world’s third-largest democracy but his challenger also claimed he had won and complained of widespread cheating.
Unofficial results from private pollsters based on vote samples from Wednesday’s (...)
Jakarta — The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM) have again warned that both presidential candidate tickets — incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and running mate Ma’ruf Amin as well as rival Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno (...)
Jakarta. The second televised debate between Indonesia’s two presidential contenders, the incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his challenger, Prabowo Subianto, on Feb. 17 primarily focused on economic issues. But as a debate on economic policies, it was rather lackluster and relatively (...)
Jakarta — Military observer Khairul Fahmi from the Institute for Security and Strategic Studies (ISESS) says that the plan to place active TNI (Indonesian military) officers in strategic positions in ministries and government institutions goes against the mandate of reformasi.
This plan also (...)
National Press Day, which falls on February 9, is a reminder of the murder of Radar Bali journalists Anak Agung Gede Prabangsa in 2009.
Based on the results of an investigation by the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), which was later published under the title “The Bloody Trail After (...)
Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta — Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo is proposing that massive raids be carried out to hunt down books which contain communist teachings and banned ideologies. The proposal was made after the seizure of hundreds of books around the country allegedly containing “banned (...)
The government has doubled the allocation of cash assistance distributed through the Family Hope Program.
This year, the government allocated Rp 17 trillion (US$1.12 billion) for the program, but the figure will increase to Rp 34.4 trillion next year. Poor households will receive Rp 3.4 (...)
Dian Septiari, Jakarta — The Migrant CARE advocacy group has called on the Manpower Ministry to cancel a recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to send Indonesian migrant workers to the kingdom in limited numbers, following the execution of Indonesian worker Tuti Tursilawati on Monday.
Migrant CARE (...)
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