The agency, a Central Java KPU official and an election law expert all agree that the former president can be a campaign volunteer in November's regional head elections, though the latter says a note of caution is warranted because his son is the incumbent vice president.

President Prabowo Subianto has offered a gesture of support for Jakarta gubernatorial hopeful Ridwan Kamil, as the candidate loses ground in opinion polls and struggles to energize supporters of the parties backing him.

The first North Sumatra gubernatorial election got off to a heated start, with Bobby Nasution going on the attack against the policies of former governor Edy Rahmayadi, who is up for reelection.

Although there were barely any barbs traded during the first debate, candidate Ahmad Luthfi boasted about the support he got from former President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his successor Prabowo.

The Home Ministry said that village heads who fail to maintain neutrality in regional elections may face job termination.

West Java gubernatorial candidate Dedi Mulyadi and his running mate Erwan Setiawan have held onto a strong lead in three key regions of the province ahead of the upcoming regional election, with more than half of respondents in those areas saying they support the pair.

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has floated renewed plans for a meeting between its matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri and President Prabowo Subianto, amid a closely watched race for the Central Java governorship less than a month before voting day.

Some candidates in the November regional elections have made questionable promises and policy proposals on the campaign trail in an effort to win votes, sparking criticism from the public.

As the race for November’s regional elections heats up, competing candidates appear to be pulling out all the stops to ensure a favorable outcome, with some even resorting to exploiting sexist narratives that observers describe as a “serious problem” in Indonesian politics.

The ethics council of the Indonesian Association for Public Opinion Surveys (Persepi) is investigating why two opinion polls on the three-way Jakarta governor race from Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI) and Poltracking Indonesia had conflicting results on who the frontrunner of the Jakarta gubernatorial race is halfway into the campaign season.

Java's easternmost province will see a race between three female gubernatorial candidates, with experts saying that voters affiliated with the country's largest Muslim group Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) hold the key to determining the winner.

They made the request at their first meeting.

Pramono Anung and running mate Rano Karno are now the frontrunners in the Jakarta governor election, overtaking former popular West Java governor Ridwan Kamil and running mate Suswono in the latest public opinion poll released about a month before voting day.

Just hours after leaving office with a high approval rating and returning to his hometown in Surakarta, Central Java on Sunday, former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said he had been asked to campaign for candidates running in the upcoming regional elections.

The Central Java General Elections Commission (KPU) has announced the schedule for three gubernatorial election debates ahead of the Nov. 27 voting day.

A number of world leaders and foreign officials have congratulated Prabowo Subianto following his inauguration as Indonesia’s eighth president on Sunday in Jakarta.

Jakarta gubernatorial candidate Pramono Anung has benefitted from a wave of support from the city’s native Betawi people and supporters of popular former governor Anies Baswedan.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo toured North Sumatra on Wednesday, just days before leaving office, to inspect infrastructure projects in the province where his son-in-law Bobby Nasution is in a heated two-way race for governor.

The alliance of political parties that supported North Maluku gubernatorial candidate Benny Laos is considering nominating his wife Sherly Tjoanda for the November election after the businessman-turned-politician died in a boat explosion over the weekend.

North Sumatra’s more than 10 million voters will select their new governor in November, choosing between the province’s former governor Edy Rahmayadi and strongly backed Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution, the son-in-law of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

Benny Laos, a local businessmen who was making his second bid for the North Maluku governorship, was killed along with five other people while traveling to a campaign event in Taliabu Island regency on Saturday, when the boat carrying him and at least 31 other passengers and crew exploded during a refueling stop.

From a Dajjal-affiliated school system to a group of globalists controlling the population, the 58-year-old retired three-rank police general, has differentiated himself from rivals by peddling groundless claims about government policies that often leave rivals and viewers scratching their heads.

Jakarta governor candidate Ridwan Kamil is mounting a challenge to his biggest rival in the race in appealing to the Betawi people, Jakarta’s native ethnic group, through campaign promises and discussions geared toward cultural preservation and giving the community more widespread recognition.

The General Elections Commission’s (KPU) Jakarta office held the first debate in the city’s gubernatorial race on Sunday night, with all three candidates making the most out of their chance to promote their campaign platforms and win potential voters.

Against the backdrop of delays on the capital city relocation plan, around 8 million voters will head to Jakarta polling stations on Nov. 27 to elect a new governor, in a race where all candidates are relatively unpopular with the city’s residents. The winner will lead the city in what might be its first five years of Jakarta’s post-capital era.

All three candidates running for Jakarta governor are set to face off on Sunday night in the first round of three debates for the November election.

The rivalry between North Sumatra gubernatorial candidates Bobby Nasution and Edy Rahmayadi has intensified in recent days, with both politicians exchanging taunts on the campaign trail.