Legislative elections were held in on 5 April 2004 for both houses of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia. This included all 550 seats in the People's Representative Council and 128 seats of the newly-formed Regional Representative Council.
The House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia is one of two elected chambers of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR),the national legislature of Indonesia. It is considered the lower house,while the Regional Representative Council (DPD) serve as the upper house;while the Indonesian constitution does not explicitly mention the divide,the DPR enjoys more power,privilege,and prestige compared to the DPD.
The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) is a regional organization of liberal democratic political parties in Asia.
The Chevening Scholarship is an international scholarship,funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office,that lets foreign students with leadership qualities study at universities in the United Kingdom.
The 1998 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1998. Acting Governor Paul Cellucci was elected to his first term as Governor of Massachusetts.
AirlanggaUniversity is the second-oldest university in Indonesia and also a public university located in Surabaya,East Java. Despite being officially established by Indonesian Government Regulation in 1954,Universitas Airlangga was first founded in 1948 as a distant branch of the University of Indonesia,with roots dating back to 1913. It started with a medical school and school of dentistry. Now Universitas Airlangga hosts 16 faculties with more than 35,000 students and 1,570 faculty members. Universitas Airlangga has university hospitals for the faculties of Medicine,Veterinary Medicine,Nursing,and Dentistry,as well as a tropical infection hospital for its Institute of Tropical Disease. The university is also equipped with biosafety level three facilities.
Indonesians are citizens or people who are identified with the country of Indonesia,regardless of their ethnic or religious background. There are more than 1,300 ethnicities in Indonesia,making it a multicultural archipelagic country with a diversity of languages,culture and religious beliefs. The population of Indonesia according to the 2020 national census was 270.2 million. 56% live on the island of Java,the world's most populous island. Around 95% of Indonesians are Native Indonesians,with 40% Javanese and 15% Sundanese forming the majority,while the other 5% are Indonesians with ancestry from foreign origin,such as Arab Indonesians,Chinese Indonesians,Indian Indonesians,and Indos.
Butet Manurung or Saur Marlina Manurung is a pioneer for alternative education for indigenous people in isolated and remote areas in Indonesia. Like other young Batak girls,she was called "Butet". Therefore,she is well known as Butet Manurung.
Indonesia–Russia relations are the bilateral relations between Indonesia and Russia. Indonesia and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations in 1950. Russia has an embassy in Jakarta,and Indonesia has an embassy in Moscow along with a consulate general in Saint Petersburg. Both countries are members of the APEC and G-20.
Harmoko,colloquially referred to as Bung Harmoko,was an Indonesian politician and journalist who was active during the New Order era. He served as the Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1997 until 1999,and was a factor in president Suharto's resignation during the widespread student demonstrations which occurred at the end of the New Order.
Roy Binilang Bawatanusa Janis was an Indonesian politician who was a member of the People's Representative Council from 1999 until 2005,and was the first chairman of the Democratic Renewal Party.
Bachtiar Aly is a professor from Indonesia who majored in Communication and Politics. He was the Indonesian Ambassador for Egypt from 2002–2005. From 2014 to 2019,he was member of the People's Representative Council under the Nasdem Party.
This local electoral calendar for 2013 lists the subnational elections held in 2013. Referendums,recall and retention elections,and national by-elections are also included.
Dr Desra Percaya is an Indonesian diplomat who,since 2020,serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Kingdom,accredited to Ireland and the International Maritime Organization.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives,is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives of Indonesia. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives and is simultaneously the Council's presiding officer. The speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. It was confirmed to have spread to Indonesia on 2 March 2020,after a dance instructor and her mother tested positive for the virus. Both were infected from a Japanese national.
Muhammad Ali Taher Parasong was an Indonesian politician from the National Mandate Party who was the member of the People's Representative Council from the Banten III electoral district from the 2014 Indonesian legislative election until his death.
Jalaluddin Rakhmat,also known by the nickname of Kang Jalal,was an Indonesian academician and politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle who became the member of the People's Representative Council from 2014 until 2019.
Parlindungan Wilfritz Togar Simanjuntak was an Indonesian Lutheran minister. He was a member of the People's Representative Council from 1967 until 1971 and the Ephorus (chairman) of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) from 17 February 1993 to 1 November 1998.
