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Former General Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in as Indonesia’s eighth president today. Twenty-five years ago he was a pariah, and for good reason.

More than 204 million people were registered to vote across the archipelago in one of the world’s biggest elections.

Indonesian police have found themselves in the dock in some high-profile cases amid hopes of greater accountability.

Sunday marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit and more than a billion people from China and Asia will celebrate.

Indonesia’s controversial new criminal code was passed into law on Tuesday, replacing a clunky old code dating back to at least 1918. Lawmakers have tried for decades to replace it. In fact, the last time legislators tried in 2019, it triggered the largest public protests in Indonesia since the 1998…

Public trust in police shaken after top police general and his wife arrested for fatal shooting of his bodyguard.

Indonesia’s next general elections are not until Valentine’s Day 2024. But in Indonesian politics, that is not far away. The country’s oligarchic political elites are already manoeuvring to maintain their grip on power, and some don’t want to face the polls in two years.