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Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy, is on the brink of a pivotal presidential election on Feb. 14, with over 200 million Indonesians set to vote in the world's biggest single-day election. The election has garnered attention for its potential impact on the nation's democratic trajectory and its international relations, particularly with the US and China. Prabowo Subianto, the Defense Minister and Suharto's son-in-law, with a controversial human rights record, emerges as the frontrunner amidst concerns over election interference and the continuation of President Joko Widodo's policies. Widodo, who has been criticized for his alleged interference in favor of Prabowo, leaves a mixed legacy, with economic achievements shadowed by failures in other policy areas. The election is seen as a test for Indonesia's democracy, which has made significant strides since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship. The outcome could influence Indonesia's economic policies, including its ambition to become an electric-vehicle hub, amidst environmental and social concerns. The election process itself is a massive logistical undertaking, with ballots delivered across the archipelago by various means. As Indonesians vote, the world watches closely, aware of the election's implications for democracy, human rights, and international relations.
Downstreaming is the policy most investors want to see continued by next president. But just how much has it really paid off for Indonesia? Investments and exports are up... but so are poverty and unemployment in Indonesia's mining towns. https://t.co/yejQWLn6eL
"Indonesian President Joko Widodo is facing mounting criticism over alleged interference in the country’s looming elections," as he backs Prabowo Subianto, a former military general and the incumbent defense minister, despite his history of repression. https://t.co/LEx9QnaNMd
Indonesians has begun voting for a new president with Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto the frontrunner to lead Southeast Asia's biggest economy despite concerns over his human rights record https://t.co/qNCMIg4539 https://t.co/c5Um3jIjl4
Millions in Indonesia are heading to the polls on Valentine's Day to elect Jokowi's presidential successor. Former army general and special ops commander Prabowo led the latest opinion polls, will Suharto's son-in-law beat his two rivals to the top job? https://t.co/u01kRc65DR
The world’s biggest single-day polls taking place over six-hours have officially begun in Indonesia. @opinion's @KarishmaJourno, who has lived through the transition from dictatorship to democracy in the country, explains what matters the most right now https://t.co/dByFvP4Wux https://t.co/H9KZ2mORid
The vote for a successor to President Joko Widodo follows months of debate over his influence in the election and the strength of democracy in the world’s fourth-most-populous nation. Defense Minister Prabowo is expected to garner the most votes. https://t.co/OXresA0MJ1
As the world’s third-largest democracy headed to the polls Wednesday, three men are jockeying for the role of Indonesia’s president, with the planned relocation of the capital looming large as one of the main campaign issues. https://t.co/l6A2hAF4GQ
Millions in Indonesia are heading to the polls on Valentine's Day to elect Jokowi's successor as president; former special ops commander and army general Probowo led opinion polls. Will Suharto's son-in-law beat his two rivals to the job? https://t.co/u01kRc65DR
Happy valentine's day and happy Indonesia election day! Crazy thunder and rains early in the morning in Jakarta - flooding has already disrupted voting in some polling stations. https://t.co/hS7JFmry3w
“Indonesia, as a maritime nation, should see itself as ‘Garda Samudera’, the Guardian of the Seas,” argues Ganjar Pranowo. The presidential candidate believes the country must work with others in the region to ensure a peaceful Indo-Pacific https://t.co/5zuahFY9lr
Today, one of the world's biggest elections is taking place. Meet the three presidential candidates – Prabowo Subianto, Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo – vying to become the next leader of the world's third-largest democracy. https://t.co/6VQvQQbW5M
Indonesians vote on successor to Joko Widodo https://t.co/PrYOeTbzAI
Indonesia's general election offers a glimpse of how generative AI may transform large-scale political campaigning. https://t.co/bxalXnSlFA
This election in Indonesia is all about Jokowi. The main question for voters today is: Do they want continuity or change? w/ @bonimygi https://t.co/JTOrSyxCnu
The man likely to be Indonesia’s next leader stands accused of committing atrocities during his decades in the army. Under his presidency, will the world’s third-largest democracy continue its broadly successful rise or return to authoritarianism? https://t.co/FM6VIG8MXx 👇
Indonesians are voting in an election that has turned outgoing President Joko Widodo into a polarizing figure https://t.co/9wDbYtzp5z via @bpolitics
🇮🇩🗳️Indonesians began voting for a new president on Wednesday with Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto the frontrunner despite concerns over his human rights record and claims of improper support from outgoing leader Joko Widodo. Full story: https://t.co/B5TLI5LIDf https://t.co/D8K2QLwDTR
Indonesia: That Prabowo Subianto has now found it politically advantageous to transform himself into an ostensible democrat does not change the very real prospect that he would revert to his brutal past should he manage to ascend to the presidency. https://t.co/pkJ6wm0UFy
Election ballots and boxes carried across Indonesia by motorcycle, boat, horse and on foot https://t.co/fEANAT3EGI
Iconic white ballot boxes and ballots to let the nearly 205 million eligible voters of Indonesia choose candidates in this Wednesday’s election have been carried across the world’s largest archipelago by motorcycle, boat, horse and on foot. https://t.co/v6BLVTikcx
Indonesia faces “daunting challenges at home and abroad”, argues @ganjarpranowo in a guest essay. “When the very people who are expected to abide by democratic rules of the game begin to bend those rules, the future of our democracy is indeed at stake” https://t.co/oYQGTlcxX9
Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto was "accused of overseeing some of the most brutal excesses during Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor.” And “he was dismissed from the military amid allegations that he had orchestrated the kidnapping of student protesters." https://t.co/aBDP1qEr1j
Indonesia votes for its next president tomorrow and will likely choose Prabowo Subianto. A Prabowo inauguration will elicit none of the Western enthusiasm Jokowi's did a decade ago. Nonetheless, it could be useful. Here's my City Journal essay on the stakes: https://t.co/XKXw6RalTk
Democracy Now! discussion re Gen @prabowo's sponsorship by the US as he was doing the massacres & abductions, how the state aparat is coercing poor people to vote for him, and how he has tried to bring #Indonesia in line with #Israel. https://t.co/0QvAQ17cn7
Indonesia's dangerous gamble of impunity: Few "bring up the mass murders of hundreds of thousands of leftists Suharto organized as he rose to power." Instead, the government opted for "forward-looking...reform." Prabowo Subianto played along. Now what? https://t.co/LhPzqAoqSI
There's a lot of talk in Indonesia of "chaos" if Gen Prabowo is imposed as a first-round winner. The idea being that the specter of a return to tyranny will jolt some people out of complacency. If it happens it will be ironic since street chaos got Prabowo here in the 1st place..
Indonesia's presidential election has high stakes for the US and China and their rivalry in the region https://t.co/2YVdilBwgl
Ahead of tomorrow's elections in Indonesia, @udayxSEA examines how political & extremist actors alike weaponise disinformation and extremist content to polarise the political environment, fuel social tensions and threaten the country's regressing democracy https://t.co/H3krZ3HtNq
Although Indonesian President Joko Widodo secured reelection in 2019—largely due to his successful economic policy—he has failed in virtually every other policy area, writes @JoshKurlantzick. https://t.co/FoV9vsGRBi
200 million voters. Polls open for just six hours. Ballot counting done manually. 🫨 Indonesia's election is one massive undertaking that requires everything from speedboats to elephants. @JFXM https://t.co/n92SH6BNkL
VIDEO: 🇮🇩 Indonesia prepares for mega polls The country holds one of the world's biggest one-day elections on February 14, a feat that sees ballots shifted across the archipelago of more than 278 million people 📹 @BerryAdek Andre KIRWEL Ganis BUNGSU 📷 PERDIANSYAH #AFPVertical https://t.co/L1cHKVhLmJ
He’s spent months playing populist and dancing for the crowds but in the last moments of his presidential campaign, Prabowo Subianto made one thing clear - there would be no more Mr Cute Guy. https://t.co/Jall9ECevO Indonesia warned: ‘No More Mr Cute Guy’ https://t.co/Jall9ECevO
I'll be appearing on @democracynow at 20:00 WIB (8:00 am US Eastern) to discuss my piece in @theintercept on @prabowo, the US-protege massacre general who mused to me about becoming "a fascist dictator" & who may be on the verge of being installed as Indonesia's next president.
The @Prabowo forces have filed criminal charges against a film director and three law professors because they did a documentary ( Dirty Vote ) on vote fraud in Indonesia. This comes after they warned the filmmakers that "the people""will punish them." #DirtyVote #PemiluDamai https://t.co/xSmz9pVAgY
VIDEO: Hundreds of students protest against Indonesian President Joko Widodo's alleged election interference and the establishment of a political dynasty. https://t.co/dJAVpLzJU3
Gen @prabowo,who described himself to me as "the Americans' fair-haired boy" "anak kesayangan Amerika" has made a career inside Indonesia of killing civilians and pretending to oppose foreigners. As he did his massacres,he was Washington's man in Indonesia https://t.co/dXI50oGGtm
Indonesia's presidential election has high stakes for US and China https://t.co/hjO8lUg39o
Indonesians call their election a “democracy party.” We explain how and why. On today’s page 1 of the @nytimes https://t.co/ODYa6MfUBq
Indonesians call their elections a “democracy party.” We explain how and why. On today’s Page 1 of the @nytimes #pestademokrasi https://t.co/ODYa6MfUBq
Free and fair elections in Indonesia were unthinkable as recently as the mid-1990s, when it was still under the brutal rule of Suharto. But after his fall in 1998, the country emerged as the world’s third-largest democracy. https://t.co/zwTUBC97N2
Indonesia Election 2024 by numbers. 200M eligible voters. More than 50% under 40. They’re spread across archipelago with 17,000 islands, 700 languages, 3 time zones. Past elections have seen 75% voter turnout. Official results in days or weeks but quick count by end of day https://t.co/soOBw4qTQW
I reported that on Feb 7 Indonesian army &intel officials discussed a plan to do voter fraud to install Gen Prabowo. Now a just-released documentary in which law professors detail fraud procedures has been viewed 7 million-plus times but is facing hacking. https://t.co/1vwbRX3vyO
K-pop, TikTok and cats: the fight to win the key youth vote in Indonesia’s election https://t.co/l5zTGVvboi
Indonesian authorities were making final preparations ahead of Wednesday's election, with around 25,000 police set to ensure security in a contest seen as a test of democratic gains made since the end of authoritarian rule 25 years ago https://t.co/6mRbAJWaJ9
Former military general Prabowo Subianto is leading in the polls ahead of the Indonesian presidential election. https://t.co/EAMSBl5o4n
Indonesia made a remarkable transition from dictatorship to democracy. But "dark clouds are gathering again." with the lead candidate for president in Wednesday's election "threaten[ing] many of the gains Indonesians have achieved." https://t.co/6scr6F58le
Indonesia in final stretch ahead of world's biggest single-day election https://t.co/Do1k44ZC5G https://t.co/d2LYXV07YT
‘Disappointed’: Indonesians reflect on legacy of departing Joko Widodo https://t.co/EzOXJhjqpF
Over 200 million Indonesians will head to the polls tomorrow to vote for a new leader. Listen to our podcast Global Roaming to find out what the implications of this election are for Indonesia and its relationship with its Australian neighbour. https://t.co/8FI1ELyTaM
Indonesia’s election on Wednesday is raising questions over whether the nation’s bid to become an electric-vehicle hub poses enough economic benefit to outweigh environmental risks https://t.co/BPBAo5YnSX
Indonesia holds presidential elections on Feb. 14. During our breakfast of Oct 20th, 2022, in Washington D.C., when we brainstormed strategies, it was clear that Minister of Defense @prabowo was going to make a run for the presidency and that Pres. Joko Widodo was going to…
Continuity of outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s economic policies is the main concern of investors in Southeast Asia’s largest equity market by capitalization. Here's what matters ⬇️ https://t.co/Jlb2OIzIZU
Most investors expect the endorsement of a new Indonesian president in a single round of voting on Wednesday, with the result potentially driving the local stock benchmark to a record high https://t.co/2ux3m6ZGFl
From banned general to dancing grandpa: how Prabowo became favourite to lead Indonesia https://t.co/HcX7eLBuys
Indonesian polls: By boat, cow and maybe even elephant – how ballot boxes reach remote areas 🗳️🇮🇩 https://t.co/ReiElA3bIA
Balancing Act Makes Indonesia an Emerging-Markets Darling https://t.co/NKpk3tQIrP Good fiscal and foreign policies have helped their economy
Indonesia goes to the polls this week to vote for Joko Widodo's successor. Once of marginal importance, the country is now every bit the 'global maritime fulcrum' Jokowi claims. My latest @CityJournal: https://t.co/RwohPLZscR
Would a @prabowo victory in the Indonesian presidential election damage Indonesian democracy irreparably? https://t.co/hbq9LLtxBt via @CFR_org
My overview of the Indonesian election an the stakes - a Prabowo first round victory? https://t.co/hbq9LLtxBt via @CFR_org
🇮🇩 ‘Cuddly grandpa’ who is favourite to win Indonesia election has a murky past. Read more here 👇 https://t.co/1plK5IHyI1
My analysis on the eve of a critical presidential election: Indonesia’s Presidential Election: The Old Guard Faces the New https://t.co/hbq9LLtxBt via @CFR_org
Another US protege, this time in Indonesia, has his eyes set on stealing an election https://t.co/z2Kwrv2vqo
"As Indonesia stands at this pivotal crossroads, the decisions made by its electorate will carry profound consequences not only for the nation's democratic fabric but also for the country's reputation internationally" https://t.co/P83lsIJf5e | by @AnielloIannone1
A documentary claiming Indonesian President Joko Widodo used state resources to try to swing this week's presidential election in favour of his defence minister has gone viral, amassing millions of views in a day. https://t.co/uFIhSBaFdS
Ominous: "Two of Indonesia's three presidential contenders pledged to protect press freedom in the world's third-largest democracy at a weekend event that frontrunner Prabowo Subianto didn't attend." https://t.co/g0791EfsW6
Prabowo Subianto, the favourite to win Indonesia’s presidential election, has given few details on how he would make the country grow faster. Instead his stump speeches are packed with fiery nationalism https://t.co/7EU6986v0k 👇
Tech on the ballot as Indonesia votes https://t.co/cidBFhMDzF
'Jokowi effect': How Indonesia's outgoing leader shaped election to succeed him https://t.co/eaqFGnJvyo https://t.co/fWKnIiCZ62
⚠️ 'JOKOWI EFFECT': HOW INDONESIA'S OUTGOING LEADER SHAPED ELECTION TO SUCCEED HIM (Reuters) His name is not on the ballot, but Indonesia's wildly popular President Joko Widodo, or "Jokowi", looms large over Wednesday's election in the world's third-largest democracy, and… https://t.co/aHKsTc7tGg
The stakes are higher than many realize in Indonesia's election, writes @johnauthers. Investors hope it will continue to keep both China and the US happy https://t.co/hamq8YNRCu via @opinion
Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, will hold its general election on Wednesday. This election season has raised fears that the country, which was an authoritarian state not long ago, is in danger of sliding back toward its dark past. https://t.co/QnbZK977bK
A Defense Minister and 2 Former Governors Vie for Indonesia’s Presidency https://t.co/8Und4fnBCd
To Jokowi and his would-be successor Prabowo,nickel downstreaming has shown a pathway out of the middle income trap.But for Indonesians counting the cost of those ambitions,Wednesday's election offers little relief.'Dirty price of the EV in your driveway https://t.co/P6T6hK8vNO
Candidates hoping to lead the world’s third-largest democracy are vowing to raise its growth rate to 7%. Indonesians have heard it all before https://t.co/R71yN6Y5fx 👇
⚠️ INDONESIA STUDENTS PLAN TO PROTEST ALLEGED POLL INTERFERENCE (Reuters) Hundreds of Indonesian students and activists will stage protests on Monday over what they see as outgoing President Joko Widodo's abuse of power to sway voters in this week's election in favour of… https://t.co/l85A6iSJSB
Just two more days before Indonesia votes. This election is a real nail-biter —the fate of the world’s third-largest democracy is at stake. https://t.co/Qge4GL1LQp
Indonesia's Pres. Jokowi once vowed to stand up to the elite, but he has now "thrown his weight behind Prabowo Subianto, a former general and son-in-law of Suharto, who has an appalling human-rights record and a professed ambivalence towards democracy." https://t.co/l8glReCuyL