Teachers, doctors and their associations lambast the 2024 presidential candidates for not outlining their plans to address Indonesia's perennial education and health problems, such as the issue of welfare for teachers and health workers.

Indonesia’s tax ratio currently stands at around 10.5 percent and covers 82 percent of state expenditure, vice presidential candidate Mahfud MD noted, underscoring the need for greater tax returns.

Presidential candidate Anies Baswedan highlights the untapped potential of Indonesia's e-sports community during his Desak Anies campaign in Semarang.

Volunteers from a property developers’ association declare their support for the Prabowo-Gibran ticket in the upcoming presidential election, promising votes from its 350,000 members.   

Presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo highlights the importance of waste management to achieve a circular economy during a visit to Waste4Change’s recycling site in Bekasi city, West Java, on Monday.

Alicia, a 30-year-old designer who has spent half her life in Malaysia, has her weekend plans set. On Saturday, she will drive to the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur, where she will be given two ballot papers. One for picking her presidential pick, and the other to choose her legislative representative.

The Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar national campaign team said the candidate pair would not dissolve state-owned enterprises but empower them instead by reforming their governance.

Vice presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka visited Cikeas to meet SBY and AHY to discuss election matters. After the visit, AHY expressed his hopes that Prabowo-Gibran would win the upcoming election.

More universities throughout the country have lent their voices to calls for a fair and accountable general election, as concerns over state partisanship and democratic backsliding continued to gain traction in the week before voting day.

Anies Baswedan visited Surya Paloh at the NasDem Tower in Manado before heading to Kotamobagu for his campaign. 

The presidential candidate claims to “sense” that the late former president Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid supports his current bid for the nation’s highest office.

Vice presidential candidate Mahfud MD promised that he and running mate Ganjar Pranowo would eradicate poverty by fighting corruption and providing education to low-income families.

Panelists pointed out that Indonesia had imported a lot of cell phones in the past year, whereas the cost of building a factory to produce the devices locally would be very small when compared with the total value of shipments coming to the country.

The series of election debates ended with what analysts described as an “anticlimactic” finale, during which the three presidential candidates played it safe and shifted to a more conciliatory tone to avoid any negative sentiment in the final week before polling day.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) has its integrity put under public scrutiny once again after its leadership was found to have committed ethics violations surrounding Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s vice presidential registration.

With just over a week left before the 2024 simultaneous elections, the government has shown its commitment to assist thousands of people with mental health disorders and disabilities across Indonesia to exercise their voting rights on Feb. 14.

President Jokowi denies using social assistance for political purposes that could favor presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the upcoming presidential election.

Basuki is the latest figure who supported Jokowi's reelection bid in 2019 to resign from their high-ranking posts at state-owned enterprises to support the campaign of PDI-P presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo.

Anies and Ganjar might have realized that the explosive third debate was "counterproductive" for their campaign and Prabowo could benefit from “sympathy bump” from public.

The Ganjar-Mahfud and Prabowo-Gibran campaigns have been intensifying their efforts to woo voters in the key battleground province of Central Java, with the former fighting to stay in the race and the latter aiming for an outright victory.

Academic communities across the country have called for a fair and accountable general election on Feb. 14 amid rising concerns about democratic decline in Indonesia.

The final presidential debate tonight at 7 p.m. sees Anies, Prabowo and Ganjar tackle issues on technology, public services, education, culture, health and human resources.

At a rally in Manado on Thursday, the PDI-P presidential candidate highlighted that the people of North Sulawesi had a role in developing the province's downstreaming sector into becoming an import-export hub.

At a campaign event in Malang hosted on Thursday by the Democratic Party, Prabowo appeared to make an off-the-cuff remark, promising a "very important" job for party chairman Agus if he won the election.

At a rally in Deli Serdang on Thursday, Anies urged his supporters to monitor polling stations and persuade at least 10 people each to vote for him and his running mate Muhaimin Iskandar.

The campaign teams for the country’s three presidential candidates say they have prepared carefully for the last debate of the 2024 election, which experts say could be instrumental in determining whether the race will go to a runoff vote.

The Four Fingers Salute movement calling on supporters of Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo to unite so the presidential race goes to a second round has gained traction on social media and may pave the way for a possible alliance between the two camps in the runoff.