Indonesia, March 21: Prabowo Subianto has been elected as the president of Indonesia, the world’s third largest democracy. The Election Commission of the country officially announced this on Wednesday. Subianto received 58.6 percent of the vote. Former Jakarta governor Anis Baswedan got 24.9 percent and former Central Java governor Ganjar Pronovo got 16.5 percent. His […]
Read MoreSaudi Arabia has organized the longest Iftar in Southeast Asian country Indonesia. The country has recorded the longest Iftar among the ASEAN countries so far this year. Gulf News reported this information in a report on Friday (March 15). ASEAN is a political and economic alliance of 10 Southeast Asian countries. This alliance includes countries […]
Read MoreA boat carrying 250 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia from Bangladesh on Thursday, a local official told AFP, bringing the number of such arrivals over the past week to nearly 600. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar and thousands risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys, often in […]
Read MoreIndonesia’s election commission (KPU) has announced the three candidates who will run to succeed President Joko Widodo as head of the world’s third-largest democracy in next year’s presidential election. “Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar, Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud MD, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka have been declared eligible as presidential and vice presidential candidate […]
Read MoreBy Ananda Teresia and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) -A judicial panel in Indonesia on Tuesday found the Constitutional Court’s chief justice guilty of a conflict of interest over his part in a ruling that allowed President Joko Widodo’s son to run for the vice presidency. Anwar Usman, who is the president’s brother-in-law, was ordered to […]
Read MoreBy Amy Sood After this week, there is unlikely to be any major reveals regarding the candidates involved in the Indonesian presidential election or their policy platforms. The three tickets have all filed their nomination papers for the February 14 polls, and unveiled their policy platforms. But open elections are very rarely focused solely on […]
Read MoreThe candidates for next year’s Indonesian presidential election were set Wednesday, with septuagenarian former special forces general Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, the president’s son, seen as the frontrunners. Nearly 205 million eligible voters can cast their ballot on February 14, with the winner set to succeed President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, […]
Read MoreJakarta: An Indonesian court on Monday rejected several petitions seeking to change eligibility rules for presidential and vice presidential candidates, complicating a widely anticipated bid by the incumbent leader’s son to run on an election ticket next year. The Constitutional Court was delivering rulings on a series of similar petitions on Monday, amid growing criticism of […]
Read MoreJAKARTA —Indonesia’s environment ministry on Monday denied accusations that forest fires in Sumatra and its portion of Borneo island, which have blanketed some of its cities with thick haze, have also affected air quality in neighboring Malaysia. Malaysia on Friday warned residents of high pollution levels in most areas on the west coast of Peninsular […]
Read MoreJakarta: Indonesia launched Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway on Monday, a delayed, multibillion-dollar project backed by China that President Joko Widodo hailed as “a symbol of our modernisation”. With a top speed of 350 kilometres (220 miles) per hour, the bullet train “Whoosh” can get between the capital Jakarta and Bandung in 45 minutes. The […]
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