What explains this ‘nationalisation’ of the regional elections? Newspaper have interpreted the results as evidence of Prabowo ...

In Jakarta, this was clearly demonstrated in a unique grassroots movement organised by the Urban Poor People’s Network or ...

Such was the hyperreality built around their ticket, that it trumped the reality of militarism. In addition to – and often as ...

For the strategists it was his proximity to the formation of the republican government and its first national institutions ...

Campaign messages flooded Indonesian public spaces, on social media and on the streets. Photo: Remco van Loenen.

But Prabowo’s gemoy ‘positivity’ rebrand is problematic because it is part of a wider trend of election campaigning that ...