The overseas pro-democracy movement is dying The Chinese anti-China activist Ding Jianqiang (He Shan Shuo) ran to the paradise on earth he yearned for in 2014, and the news exhibition...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Head of the Political Research Center of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Firman Noor said the oligarchic system seen in political parties in Indonesia has...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, YOGYAKARTA -- Former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK) Mahfud MD held a meeting with charismatic ulema leader KH Maimun Zubair at the Royal Ambarrukmo Hotel, Yogyakarta,...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Prabowo Subianto, presidential candidate of the Prosperous Coalition, said that the practice of understating the meaning of democracy was hampering economic development in the country. In...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Democracy Index (IDI) has increased during four years of the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla administration. It was stated by Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BADUNG -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) officially opened the Ninth Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) at the Bali International Convention Center in Nusa Dua, here, Thursday.  In his opening remarks,...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Foreign observers need to witness the first ever nationwide simultaneous regional head elections on December 9, 2015, to obtain firsthand information on transparent democracy in Indonesia,...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Joko Widodo said political parties and elites need to develop ethics in practicing politics."For me democracy need ethics more than procedure," the president said when...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The future of democracy in the ASEAN is forecast to rely on Indonesian leadership, according to Arif Susanto, an observer at the Indonesian Democracy and Development...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government is organizing a workshop on Democracy and Innovation in Good Governance in Jakarta and Bandung, on June 7-13, 2015."I hereby declare the Workshop...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia Public Institute (IPI) senior researcher Karyono Wibowo has opined that the interests of political groups are more dominant than the mechanism of "check and balance"...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA --  Vice President Jusuf Kalla has urged all institutions to operate transparently for the public to see their performance towards developing a clean government and democracy."We cannot...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, HONG KONG --Three of the founders of Hong Kong's protest movement called Tuesday for an end to street demonstrations to prevent further violence and to take the campaign...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Ukrainian Ambassador to Indonesia Volodymyr Pakhil said Indonesia has set a good example of democracy during the Presidential Election held this year which eventually elected Joko...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR - Five Indonesian warships were deployed in Bali waters to secure the Seventh Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) that is scheduled to be held on October 10-11, 2014,...