Recently, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo addressed rumors about him becoming the secretary general of the United Nations (UN) or a chairman of a political party once his term ends this year in October 2024. Let’s talk a bit about it.

By the end of Jokowi’s term in late October 2024, the government might have spent Rp72.8 trillion or US$4.7 billion for the new capital city Nusantara with funds from State Budget 2022, 2023, and 2024. The same amount would be enough to build major public universities or hospitals in the capital city of 34 provinces.

Apart from pointing to Prabowo Subianto’s lead in the 2024 presidential race by a big margin, the major pollsters also found a possibility that Prabowo’s party, Gerindra, might beat the ruling party PDIP in the 2024 legislative election. If Gerindra wins the...

A month before the election day, no one among the three presidential pairs is reaching more than 50 percent of electability. The latest electability surveys from various pollsters showed that the electability of Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the strongest pair in the race, was around 43-46 percent as per the end of December 2023. Will there be a runoff election?

Two more pollsters released the results of their respective electability survey at the same time on Tuesday (Jan. 2). The two pollsters are the Indonesia Political Expert (IPE) and the Ide Cipta Research and Consulting (ICRC). Coincidentally, it appears that both pollsters are favoring Ganjar Pranowo and his running mate, Mahfud MD. Let’s talk a bit about these two pollsters.

Recently, the Chief of the National Police (Kapolri) General Listyo Sigit Prabowo instituted another round of job rotation. In this rotation, General Sigit appointed one more classmate of him at the Police Academy’s (Akpol) 1991 as a new provincial police chief.

A new survey from the so-called Forum Alumni Perguruan Tinggi Indonesia (FAPTI) that works together with Alvara Research Center found Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD at the second position. FAPTI-Alvara, moreover, predicts that Ganjar-Mahfud will challenge Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the election runoff. Let’s talk a bit about this survey.

In the first instalment of the article, we’ve talked about the ruling party PDIP. Other than PDIP, three other major political parties (Golkar, PKB, and Nasdem) will also hold their chairmanship congress next year after the 2024 simultaneous presidential and legislative elections. Let’s now talk about PKB.