The latest survey by Indo Barometer, released on Sunday, found that 70.1 percent of respondents were satisfied with Jokowi’s performance, up from 57.5 percent during the early days of his first term in 2015.

In the poll, conducted from Jan. 9 to 15, 1,200 respondents were asked to name the first Cabinet member who came to mind, with 18.4 percent naming Prabowo.

Dhito is not the only political blueblood set to take part in the upcoming regional elections. 

Zulkifli Hasan, who has become the first chairman to serve two periods in the party, said PAN would neither become part of the government coalition nor the opposition.

The Golkar Party, the Gerindra Party and the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) have all said they are ready to back the President's son with the blessings of the parties’ leadership at the national level.   

Prabowo Subianto may run with Puan Maharani in the 2024 presidential election against the likes of Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno. 

Jokowi’s comment about such incidents being the responsibility of regional administrations drew criticism from interfaith activist Alissa Wahid, the daughter of former president Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has inaugurated Vice Adm. Aan Kurnia as the new chief of the Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla), replacing Achmad Taufiqoerrochman, who has entered retirement.

“Minority groups want to oppose Pancasila and appear as the majority. This is dangerous. If we’re being honest, Pancasila’s biggest enemy is religion, not tribalism,” Yudian said as quoted by detik.com on Wednesday.

Jokowi hopes the new chairman will help promote the values of Pancasila to the younger generation. 

An investigator and a prosecutor have been dismissed from the KPK amid an investigation into a bribery case that implicates the country's poll body and ruling party. 

Presidential Spokesperson Fadjroel Rachman said the government would continue to engage labor groups to win their support for the legislation. 

Gerindra Party lawmaker Andre Rosiade’s efforts to catch a prostitute in flagrante has drawn criticism from rights activists and watchdogs, who said that the West Sumatra politician’s stunt did little to address underlying social problems.

“We have given assurances to the people of Surakarta that Gibran is capable of leading the Surakarta administration,” the head of the Democratic Party's Surakarta chapter, Supriyanto, said in his endorsement of President Jokowi's son.

“If he [Ronny] is not guilty, I will step down from my position as a minister because I am sure that [Ronny] is guilty,” Yasonna said on Thursday.

"The president should be the one who stands out. If the vice president stands out, there will be twin suns," Ma'ruf told reporters at the Vice Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Wednesday.

"I am the vice president. The President should be the one who stands out. If the vice president stands out, there will be 'twin suns'," Ma'ruf told reporters at the Vice Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Wednesday. 

Yasonna removed on Tuesday two top immigration officials from their positions amid an investigation into allegations that the ministry had covered up the whereabouts of a graft fugitive, Harun Masiku.

Social media users have been outraged after discovering that the NasDem Party has reportedly been using a photo of Dede Luthfi Alfiandi, a protestor who is currently in prison, for advertising purposes. 

KPK prosecutors deem the two-year sentence too light for the former PPP chairman.

Instead of disavowing bribery suspect Harun Masiku, who has been named a fugitive, party bigwigs have seemed keen on defending the PDI-P politician, even as more party members get caught up in the case.

“Please be more careful, especially when it comes to data, numbers and legal matters. Don’t trust information without verifying it first,” Jokowi said on Friday.

Hasto said that he was asked 24 questions during the five-hour session, including a question regarding his relationship with the main suspect in the case, Harun Masiku, who has been declared a fugitive by the antigraft body.

The regions were initially committed to allocating a total of Rp 11.95 trillion (US$876.4 million) to fund their elections this year, but later said they could only spend Rp 9.93 trillion or less.

Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has come under fire for what critics say is an alleged attempt by the senior Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician to cover up the whereabouts of a fugitive suspect of a high-profile corruption case that implicates fellow members of his political party.

“Should there be any question regarding the purpose of the minister’s overseas trips, the answer is for no other purpose than to bolster our diplomacy in the defense sphere,” Jokowi said on Thursday 

The House of Representatives has listed 50 bills to be prioritized in the 2020 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) during its eighth plenary session on Wednesday. 

The admission came amid allegations the PDI-P, the largest party in the ruling coalition, is tampering with the investigation into the case, which reportedly implicates the party’s secretary-general, Hasto Kristiyanto.

In its defense statement, the ministry said that the decision to limit internet access in Papua and West Papua was made within the existing law and carried out according to principles of good governance.

Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly -- a fellow PDI-P politician -- previously said that Harun "is not in Indonesia" when asked for confirmation by journalists on Jan. 16