Indonesia politics

According to the official results released yesterday, the former general won around 58 percent of the vote on February 14.

Both losing campaigns are now pursuing a range of complaints against the conduct of the February 14 poll.

How did an ex-general with such a controversial past manage to scale the pinnacle of Indonesian politics?

The army's influence has been on the rise over the past decade. Will this continue under the ex-general's leadership?

Making sense of a 2023 Pew survey that showed majority support for representative democracy, autocracy, and rule by the military.

Washington is awaiting until the release of official results before contacting the president-elect. But waiting would be strategically costly.

The promotion of Prabowo Subianto to the rank of four-star general has drawn further attention to his controversial military career under Suharto's New Order regime.

Recent elections have upended the assumption that young people are inherently more progressive than their elders.

A senior party official says that the election, which was won decisively by Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, was tainted by “abuse of power."

A number of former members of the extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah cast their votes in last week's election, some for the first time.

Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo have both expressed concerns that last week's election was tainted by fraud and abuses of power.