Indonesia General Election 2029

What this countdown tracks

Indonesia's 2029 simultaneous general election (Pemilu Serentak), expected on 14 February 2029 — the world's largest single-day democratic exercise. On one ballot Indonesians elect the President and Vice-President, all 580 members of the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), the 152-member Dewan Perwakilan Daerah (DPD), and provincial and district legislative assemblies across the archipelago of more than 17,000 islands.

About this election

The 2024 cycle returned former defence minister Prabowo Subianto as President in a single-round 58.6 percent first-round win over Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo, with Gibran Rakabuming Raka — outgoing President Joko Widodo's son — as Vice-President. The Constitutional Court's controversial 2023 ruling that lowered the presidential candidacy age cleared the path for Gibran's nomination and remains a defining institutional event.

Under the 1945 Constitution as amended in 1999–2002, the President and Vice-President serve a maximum of two five-year terms; the DPR uses open-list proportional representation across 84 multi-member districts with a 4 percent national parliamentary threshold. The Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) administers the vote and Bawaslu the dispute resolution.

Prabowo's coalition — Gerindra, Golkar, PAN, Demokrat and PSI — controls roughly two-thirds of DPR seats. The opposition is led by PDI-P (Megawati Sukarnoputri's party, dropped from government for the first time since 2014), with Anies Baswedan's NasDem and the Islamic PKS forming a smaller bloc.

Key issues

The 2029 ballot will weigh Prabowo's first-term record on the Nusantara new-capital project in East Kalimantan, the free-meals programme rolled out from 2025, foreign-policy balancing between China and the United States in the South China Sea, downstream nickel and EV-supply-chain industrial policy, and the constitutional question of dynastic politics around the Widodo and Subianto families. Religious-conservative versus pluralist axes within Islamic civil society remain a persistent campaign vector.

Past results

• 2024: Prabowo Subianto–Gibran Rakabuming Raka 58.6%, Anies Baswedan–Muhaimin Iskandar 24.9%, Ganjar Pranowo–Mahfud MD 16.5% — single-round win.
• 2019: Joko Widodo–Ma'ruf Amin 55.5% defeated Prabowo Subianto–Sandiaga Uno 44.5%.
• 2014: Joko Widodo–Jusuf Kalla 53.2% defeated Prabowo Subianto–Hatta Rajasa 46.8%.
• 2009: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono–Boediono 60.8% — single-round re-election.

How to follow

The KPU publishes results at kpu.go.id and via the Sirekap real-time tabulation system; Kompas, Tempo, Detik and CNN Indonesia run the dominant Bahasa Indonesia coverage. International viewers can follow Reuters Jakarta, Channel News Asia and Nikkei Asia. Polls open at 07:00 across three time zones (WIB, WITA, WIT) — the largest Indonesian time zone is GMT+7.

Related countdowns

Indonesia's 2029 vote anchors a Southeast Asian cluster alongside the Philippines presidential election. It runs in the same window as the Pakistan general election, the UK general election and the European Parliament election.

FAQ

When is the Indonesia 2029 election? 14 February 2029 (expected) — the KPU is statutorily required to hold simultaneous elections every five years. Who is running? Prabowo Subianto is constitutionally eligible for a second term; PDI-P, NasDem and PKS will field opposition tickets. Vice-President Gibran's eligibility for the top of the ticket is itself a question. Why does this election matter globally? Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy, the fourth-most-populous country, and ASEAN's largest economy — a swing actor between China and the West. How is voting administered across so many islands? The KPU runs ~820,000 polling stations (TPS); ballots travel by air, sea and even horseback to remote regencies in the days before polling day.