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The 9th regional military command (Kodam IX Udayana) is set to deploy some 3,300 personnel to support the police safeguard the regional head elections in Bali on Wednesday. They will monitor 6,296 polling stations across the province. “We are supporting the Bali Police to safeguard the...

A former Indonesian education minister won the race for Jakarta governor on Wednesday after a polarising campaign that cast a shadow over Indonesia's reputation for practicing a tolerant form of Islam. Anies Baswedan won with 58 percent of the votes versus 42 percent for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama...

Jakarta voters lined up at polling booths on Wednesday to cast their votes in the Indonesian capital’s gubernatorial election, which has exposed religious and racial fault lines in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The vote is one of the 101 regional elections to be held simultaneously...