Amnesty International Indonesia recorded a gradual increase in incidences targeting vocal critics of potential fraud and the President's perceived meddling that it says have tainted the 2024 general election on Feb. 14.

Tasked by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo with maintaining political and security stability after the 2024 elections, the new Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Hadi Tjahjanto held a meeting with the country's largest Muslim organization on his first working day on the job.

Economist Drajad Wibowo of the Prabowo-Gibran Rakabuming Raka campaign team told Kompas daily on Thursday that with his vast experience in dealing with multiple economic challenges in the past 10 years, outgoing President Jokowi could help select the most credible candidates especially for the economic team.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) has insisted on continuing with its vote tabulating platform despite strong resistance against its perceived shortcomings, which losing camps in the presidential race say are to blame for making the vote-tallying process prone to fraud.

Some voters say celebrity candidates eclipse other, more qualified candidates on the ballot.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) and local polling committees have until Feb. 24, or 10 days after the Feb. 14 voting day, to wrap up delayed voting and revoting in thousands of polling stations across the country. 

Speaking after a meeting with Golkar Chairman Airlangga Hartarto on Thursday, Luhut said that under the latter's leadership, the party managed to achieve a feat that would improve the party's standing in national politics.

Former KPU commissioner Hadar Nafis Gumay warns of possible election fraud following multiple issues with the Sirekap vote-counting app. He urges transparent audits and public clarification.

Bawaslu issues a recommendation for 780 polling stations in 38 provinces to hold a revote following reports of discrepancies in the voter roll.

Analysts have suggested that Jokowi’s cabinet shake-up is part of an effort to consolidate power in his final year in office, particularly given concerns about cracks having formed in the cabinet before the election.

Democratic Party chair Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono finally ended his nearly 10-year journey in the political wilderness on Wednesday when he became the new agrarian and spatial planning minister in President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s outgoing administration.

Presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo has suggested that his backers, including his own Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the largest party in the legislature, launch a House of Representatives inquiry into what he has described as “large-scale election fraud”.

The PDI-P, which backed the Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD presidential candidate pair, called for a thorough investigation of the KPU's Sirekap platform amid rampant allegations of electoral fraud during the vote counting for the 2024 general election.

When vote counting started a few hours after the polls closed on Feb. 14, local poll administrators (KPPS) and members of the public voiced complaints on social media about irregularities in vote count data on Sirekap, which is accessible through the KPU’s official website.

Deputy secretary general of the Democratic Party Ossy Dermawan said that although the elder Yudhoyono did not join Agus’ swearing in ceremony as the new agrarian and spatial planning minister and head of the National Land Agency (BPN), he had given his full support for Agus to assume the position.

Speaking during a gathering for National Press Day, President Jokowi, who will wrap up his second and final term on Oct. 20 this year, said he respected media freedom even when some of the harsh tone and criticism had taken a personal toll on him.

The call comes despite comments by independent observers that there were no signs of systematic fraud in the world's biggest single-day election, apart from matters such as outdated electoral rolls or polling delays. 

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo promoted on Wednesday one of his loyalists, Hadi Tjahjanto, to a senior post in the cabinet and also welcomed Democratic Party leader Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono as the newest member of his outgoing administration.

Once he takes office in October, former Army general Prabowo Subianto may set his own agenda rather than completely following in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's footsteps, although the politician still needs to compromise with his predecessor, analysts have said.

“Wait and see tomorrow at 10 a.m.,” the President told journalists on Tuesday, without elaborating and while skirting questions about who would get replaced in the cabinet shake-up.

The government has reported that 83 poll workers died during and after last week’s general election, an improvement from the hundreds of deaths recorded in the 2019 election, but a figure that officials have vowed to bring down further in future elections.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) says the delay in updating the 2024 general elections vote count on Sirekap is for the sake of data synchronization and accuracy.

The Constitutional Court is set to send a team of lawyers to present its defense on Wednesday against a challenge by its disgraced former chief justice at an administrative court, although a constitutional law expert says that the administrative judiciary has no authority over the matter.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Monday that he would play the role of “bridge builder” in a post-election reconciliation effort that analysts say is an attempt to maintain a leading role in politics for the remainder of his term and beyond.

A PDI-P legislative candidate has called on the KPU to provide a clear explanation for why vote counting had been suspended at the district level, alleging an attempt at vote rigging to ensure an advantage for a rival party to make gains in the House.

Following widespread criticisms alleging the President's meddling in the 2024 general election, Jokowi said he was simply acting as "a bridge" in post-election coalition talks.

Despite the poor results of its presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo, preliminary counts have shown that the PDI-P is on track to win the national legislative election.  

The camps of the two candidate pairs who, by the quick count figures, appear to have lost last week's presidential election are preparing to challenge the results at the Constitutional Court with allegations of large-scale electoral fraud.

A closer look at the data suggests that Prabowo has managed upset victories in the Bali-Nusa Tenggara and Central Java-Yogyakarta electoral regions, previously strongholds of Ganjar and the PDI-P.

At least 23 poll workers died during and after the Feb. 14 general election, reportedly of exhaustion, despite efforts by the General Elections Commission (KPU) to prevent a repetition of 2019’s hundreds of election worker deaths.