The General Elections Commission (KPU) requires volunteers applying to be poll administrators during the upcoming general election to go through medical checkups, following the death of hundreds of poll workers in the previous election in 2019.

Prabowo Subianto defended his decision to pick the President’s son as his running mate.

Recent surveys and analysts suggest that while the election debates might give some candidates a slight boost in electability, they might not sway enough swing voters to win next year's election.

Campaign spokesperson for Prabowo-Gibran, Burhanuddin Abdullah, says their planned free lunch and milk program was expected to cost Rp 1 trillion per day for 82.9 million beneficiaries. The program would require 45,000 new kitchens, which the pair claim would create new job opportunities.

Presidential hopeful Anies Baswedan’s campaign team said on Thursday that he and his running mate Muhaimin Iskandar, if elected, would seek to strengthen corruption eradication efforts by increasing rewards for whistleblowers.

A UI analyst has criticized the format of the 2024 election debates, suggesting the KPU to take some pointers from similar events held in other countries, including the UK and the US.

Ganjar-Mahfud campaign team spokesperson Ruhut Sitompul said both candidates would provide over 17 million job openings if they won the 2024 presidential election.

Intimidation and legal threats against government critics may cause voters to be more hesitant in expressing political opinions or go to polling stations altogether, analysts have said.

Human rights defenders have slammed the presidential candidates for lacking to provide concrete policies to address Indonesia’s human rights problems, including the conflicts in Papua and the long-standing culture of police impunity in the country, during the first election debate earlier this week.

Presidential hopeful Ganjar Pranowo unveils his goal to elevate Indonesia's economic growth to 7 percent, in order for the country to avoid falling into the middle-income trap by 2045.

The presidential candidate intends to offer amnesty to the armed groups as a way to achieve peace without violence, after the success of a similar resolution in Aceh. 

PKB chair Muhaimin, the running mate of presidential candidate Anies Baswedan, said the pair aimed to conduct a thorough review on the Preemployment Card program if they won next year's election.

The supporters and campaign teams for each of the 2024 presidential hopefuls have claimed that their candidate triumphed in the first debate of the contest, as they seek to win over the country’s large share of swing voters.

Indonesia’s presidential candidates clashed over national fertilizer shortages at Tuesday’s inaugural debate of the 2024 campaign, with the three trading blame and using the problem to highlight broader policy differences.

The two-hour election debate on Tuesday evening among the candidates seeking to succeed outgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo saw Prabowo Subianto, Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan trade barbs on the hot-button issues of law, corruption, human rights, democracy and governance.

The first debate among Indonesia's presidential candidates centered on law, human rights, governance, corruption, democracy and tolerance. 

A team comprising 2,000 Jakarta Police personnel will be deployed to secure the KPU headquarters and divert traffic as the first of five election debates takes to the national stage on Tuesday evening.

Activists say the three 2024 presidential candidates must offer concrete strategies to address Indonesia's flagging fight against corruption, democratic backsliding and unresolved past human right abuses in the first debate of the campaign season scheduled for Tuesday evening

Presidential candidates Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan are locked in a tight competition to be part of a likely runoff election after the three latest opinion polls found the former Central Java governor’s electability had started to slip.

The latest poll, released by Kompas on Monday, showed that Prabowo and his running mate, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's 36-year-old son Gibran Rakabuming, garnered 39.3 percent of the vote.

All three presidential candidates have said they are ready to face off in the first debate of the 2024 campaign on Tuesday, for which the General Elections Commission (KPU) has selected 11 expert panelists to ask questions on issues of law, human rights and democracy.

The three presidential candidate pairs kept up their pace in the second week of campaigning for next year’s election, as they canvassed for support on the ground, either trying to fend off efforts by rivals to make inroads in their strongholds or seeking to secure a spot in a possible runoff vote.

Non-committal statements from a presidential candidate and legal uncertainties over the project may pose threats to the new capital's continuation after President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's term ends, analysts have concurred.

Presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo has pledged to prioritize the development of the 3T regions amid the construction of the new capital, Nusantara.

The PDI-P presidential candidate reaffirmed his commitment to carry on with the development of the country's new capital Nusantara as mandated by the IKN Law, while visiting the site of the megaproject in East Kalimantan on Thursday.

Addressing a meeting of the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) on Wednesday, the NasDem presidential candidate and former Jakarta governor presented several ideas on developing the country's air transportation sector, including how to reduce airfares.

While the Prabowo-Gibran camp frames Gibran’s candidacy as an attempt to bring young people to politics, critics have lashed out at his nomination as symptomatic of the entrenched culture of political nepotism.