STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT. The country’s oldest and third-largest political party is banking on a potential alliance of major parties to secure its chances of winning the 2024 presidential race, as it looks to realign its bargaining position with members of the ruling coalition to collectively tout a candidate that will carry on President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s legacy.
The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) announced its intention to join the large alliance backing President Jokowi’s government in the 2024 presidential election, which is a hybrid of the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and the Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR).
PSI Chair Giring Ganesha said the party wanted to make sure that the government maintained the current good policies even after President Jokowi left office.
The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), led by its chair Giring Ganesha, met with Golkar Party Chair Airlangga Hartarto at the Golkar Party headquarters in Jakarta. Giring said PSI would always support Jokowi, and that the party is open to the possibility of forming a coalition with Golkar. He also said PSI is ready to join Golkar’s planned grand coalition with the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and the Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR).
Perindo Party Chair Hary Tanoesoedibjo met with Gerindra Party Chair Prabowo Subianto at Prabowo’s residence in South Jakarta. Prabowo said the meeting discussed several issues, including the opportunity for political cooperation in 2024.
Prabowo said Gerindra and Perindo had many similar visions and values. Prabowo said his coalition was open to any party, including the Perindo Party. If the Perindo Party is interested in joining the coalition, Prabowo said he would be happy to convince his coalition partners. Meanwhile, Hary Tanoe welcomed Prabowo’s invitation to join the coalition.
Indonesian politicians frequently use anti-LGBT sentiment as a political weapon, especially before election season. Early in 2023, Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution made a controversial remark labeling Medan an anti-LGBT city. His remarks gained support from the Indonesian public, who are fearful of the LGBT community.
Bobby’s comments served as a catalyst for other public officials to stigmatize the LGBT community and promote the drafting of a regional anti-LGBT regulation. In Indonesia, there are currently 48 anti-LGBT laws in effect. Between 2006 to 2018, 1,840 LGBT individuals have become victims of persecution.
The figure could be even higher because public officials are actively expressing negative views toward the marginalized group. Articles written by the majority of news outlets often use stigmatizing language, such as referring to LGBT as a deviant behavior, that it is forbidden by religion, and that it violates moral or cultural norms.
Golkar Party chairman Airlangga Hartarto said in a recent interview with The Jakarta Post that the party was seeking to gain the majority vote in next year’s presidential election by forming a big tent alliance with other pro-government parties.
Alliance building in the lead-up to the 2024 elections has taken a new turn after two key pro-government groups, the Golkar-led United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and the Gerindra-led Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR), announced last Sunday that they would seek ways to stitch the blocs together to back the same presidential candidate.
Golkar Party Chair Airlangga Hartarto announced that PSI would become its sister party. According to Airlangga, PSI would work with the Golkar Party to find candidates for the House of Representatives to serve on the regency and city councils.
Researchers and civil society organisations must start to study TikTok’s potential impact on Indonesia as the country will hold its general and presidential elections in February 2024.
Indonesia is home to the platform’s second-largest audience globally. Research has also found TikTok has a role in facilitating the spread of hate speech as well as misinformation and disinformation.
As the Indonesian elections approaches, it is vital for TikTok to enhance its content moderation system to limit propaganda on its platform.
More than three-quarters of Indonesians are satisfied with President Jokowi’s performance, the highest number of approval since 2015, according to a new survey published on Sunday. Jokowi’s approval rating stands at 76.8 percent, as indicated in the latest poll by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI).
The strong public acceptance of the Jokowi government has held steady throughout the year in comparison to the fluctuating figures last year, the pollster said.
Gerindra Party leader Prabowo Subianto is now the man to beat in the 2024 presidential election, overtaking Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo as the most popular candidate among voters in the latest election survey.
An Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI) survey released on Sunday has found that Prabowo is now the most popular candidate for the nation’s top job in a three-horse race simulation against Ganjar and former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan.
His electability rate grew by 3.6 percentage point from 26.7 percent in February to 30.3 percent in March, while Ganjar’s nosedived from 35 to 26.9 percent. Anies now trails Ganjar, with his popularity slightly rising from 24 to 25.3 percent.
National Awakening Party (PKB) Chair Muhaimin Iskandar met with Gerindra Party Chair Prabowo Subianto at his residence in South Jakarta. Muhaimin confirmed that the meeting was part of a typical coalition party meeting.
Prabowo said it was a regular meeting and that his party will discuss information on the meeting’s outcomes with other parties this time. Muhaimin also congratulated Prabowo for receiving the greatest electability rating in a recent poll.
The Jakarta High Court overturned a lower court’s controversial order to delay the 2024 presidential and general elections by two years, arguing it had overstepped its jurisdiction and had no authority to make the decision.
The Jakarta High Court’s decision, after an appeal by the General Election Commission, will ease political uncertainty in the world’s third-largest democracy, and means the February 2024 elections should be able to go ahead as scheduled.
The Jakarta High Court has ruled in favor of the General Elections Commission (KPU) that appealed the Central Jakarta District Court’s verdict last March that instructed it to suspend the 2024 general elections preparation. The decision effectively overturned Central Jakarta District Court’s decision which the KPU appealed to the court.
The high court also accepted the electoral commission’s argument that the Central Jakarta District Court has no competency and jurisdiction over the case filed by a minor party, the Just and Prosperous People’s Party (Prima).
An Indonesian appeals court has overturned a contentious lower court ruling that ordered the postponement of next year’s election, restoring stability and predictability to the country’s politics in the run-up to the pivotal poll. On March 2, the Central Jakarta district court ruled that the General Elections Commission (KPU) must cease all ongoing electoral processes for the curiously specific period of two years, four months, and seven days.
The Golkar Party has warned that if the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) plans to join the proposed grand electoral alliance of parties backing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration, it must not seek to take over the bloc.
Golkar chair Airlangga Hartarto and Gerindra Party leader Prabowo Subianto held a closed-door meeting earlier this week to consolidate plans to have the Golkar-led United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and the Gerindra-led Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR) join forces to nominate a single presidential and vice presidential candidate pair for the 2024 election.
According to John McBeth, journalist and author, ruling Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-P) leader Megawati Sukarnoputri’s failure to read her country’s love for football appears to have turned the 2024 presidential race on its head with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto now taking over as the front-runner in the latest electability poll.
A fortnight after Megawati’s opposition to Israel’s participation sabotaged Indonesia’s hosting of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup, pollster Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI) has given Prabowo, 71, a four-point lead over Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo, the prospective PDI-P candidate.
While the extraordinary turn-around will have to be confirmed in subsequent polls, the concurrent Great Indonesian Movement (Gerindra) leader appears to have President Joko Widodo’s full backing in pressing ahead with a five-party, pro-government alliance that excludes PDI-P.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) is planning to revise KPU Regulation No.33/2018 on general elections campaigns, KPU Commissioner August Mellaz said during a discussion on the regulation of election campaigns on social media sites and digital literacy at the KPU Media Center on Thursday.
He said the revision to the regulation would cover campaign advertisements and election campaigns on social media. He said the revision would also regulate the limits on the use of social media by political candidates for campaigning.
