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April 2019

Ma’ruf, Prabowo, Widodo and Uno greet each other before presidential debate (CNN)
LBH Jakarta launches report on presidential candidates’ lousy track record
CNN Indonesia – April 17, 2019

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) has launched a report on an investigation into the human rights track record of the presidential and vice presidential candidates contesting the 201

Journalist Allan Nairn and Gerindra politician Arief Poyuono (Istimewa)
Prabowo camp to report US journalist over explosive article on strategy meeting
CNN Indonesia – April 15, 2019

Jakarta – The deputy chairperson of Prabowo Subianto’s Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), Arief Poyuono, will report US independent journalist Allan Nairn to the police who he accuses of

Protest in Bali calling for election boycott – April 15, 2019 (Detik)
Papuan students protest arrest of demonstrators at election boycott rally in Bali
Detik News – April 15, 2019

Aditya Mardiastuti, Denpasar – The Papua Student Alliance (AMP) is protesting the arrest of student demonstrators at Renon Park in the Balinese provincial capital of Bali.

Arrested Papuan students being taken away in truck – April 15, 2019 (Kanal Bali)
Papuan students arrested at rally in Bali calling for election boycott
Kumparan – April 15, 2019

Kanal Bali, Denpasar – Scores of Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) protesters from the AMP Bali City Committee (AMP KK Bali) were arrested by the Denpasar municipal police (Polresta) on Monday April 15

Prabowo Subianto campaign rally in Solo (Prabowo-Sandi Media Center)
How Prabowo spots ‘intel’ agents spying on his campaign rallies
Detik News – April 11, 2019

Marlinda Oktavia Erwanti, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto has a simple way of detecting ‘intel’ (intelligence agents) claiming that he can differentiate between intel

French journalists on trial for reporting in West Papua – October 24, 2014 (Tempo)
Foreign journalists banned from covering elections in West Papua
Kumparan – April 10, 2019

Paul – The West Papua immigration office insists that it will take firm action against foreign journalists trying to cover the elections in West Papua.

Golput declaration at PBHI office in Yogya – April 5, 2019 (Detik)
Activist group declares they will golput, calls for alternative political force
Detik News – April 5, 2019

Pradito Rida Pertana, Bantul – Taking place at the offices of the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, a group of activists have declared

March 2019

Rhoma Irama (left) and Sandiaga Uno at campaign rally – March 31, 2019 (Twitter@sandiuno)
‘Dangdut King’ rails against sexual violence law at Prabowo campaign rally
CNN Indonesia – March 31, 2019

Surabaya – Dangdut singer Rhoma Irama touched on the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence (RUU PKS) in a speech at a campaign rally for presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto and running

Papuan students in Jakarta call for golput – February 17, 2019 (Kumparan)
Peak religious body says not voting or golput ‘forbidden under Islam’
CNN Indonesia – March 25, 2019

Jakarta – The country’s peek religious body, the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), is calling on the Indonesian public to use their right to vote on voting day in the 2019 presidential and legislativ

Sandiaga Uno, Prabowo Subianto, Joko Widodo and Ma’ruf Amin (CNN)
Most people don’t trust presidential candidates’ promises – Survey
CNN Indonesia – March 21, 2019

Jakarta – A survey by the Voxpol Center found that the majority of Indonesians don’t care about or aren’t interested in the promises made by the presidential (capres) and vice presidential (cawapre