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The election occurred as part of the general election, which also included elections for the president, members of the national House of Representatives (DPR), and members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD). Elections were held in all 38 Indonesian provinces, along with 415 of Indonesia's 416 regencies and 93 of 98 cities.
Indonesia Today is the first English-language newscast ever carried by a private television network in Indonesia. It appeared on RCTI from 1 November 1996 to 31 August 2001. On 31 August 2001, Indonesia Today was discontinued due to lack of ratings and replaced by Indonesian-language criminal news, Sergap .
The general election period is regulated in Article 6A and Article 22E of the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and by the Law on General Elections.The presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties that have at least 20% of the seats in the House of Representatives (DPR) or at least 25% of the national vote from ...
Workers unloading ballot boxes in Jakarta the day before the election. The Indonesian Government budgeted Rp 25 trillion (~USD 1.7 billion) for the election preparations in 2022–2023, over half of which was used by the General Elections Commission (KPU) and most of the remaining funds used by the General Election Supervisory Agency. [111]
Indonesia's first general election elected members of the DPR and the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia (Konstituante). The election was organised by the government of Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo. Sastroamidjojo himself declined to stand for election, and Burhanuddin Harahap became prime minister. The election occurred in two stages:
The election was described as "one of the most complicated single-day ballots in global history." [3] Jokowi's 85.6 million votes were the most votes cast for a single candidate in any democratic election in Indonesia's history, exceeding the record of his predecessor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who won 73.8 million votes in 2009. [4]
It was the third presidential election in Indonesia after the 1945 and 1963 elections. Suharto was officially elected president on 27 March 1968 for a five-year term after previously holding the position of acting president since 1967, when Sukarno was officially impeached and removed by the MPRS.
Marines preparing for the 2019 Indonesian elections protests. In anticipation of protests, some 45,000 armed police were deployed to guard the KPU and the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) offices in Central Jakarta. [6] Members of the Mobile Brigade Corps (Brimob) with rifles and armoured personnel carrier were also deployed. [22]