Chief of State & Head of Government:President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla
Cabinet appointed by the president
President and Vice President directly elected by absolute majority popular vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term)
Legislative Branch:
People's Consultative Assembly consists of the Regional Representative Council (132 seats -- members serve 5-year terms)
House of Representatives (560 seats -- members directly elected to serve 5-year terms. The number of seats won does not always follow the percentage of votes received by parties)
Judicial Branch:
Supreme Court -- consists of 51 judges divided into 8 chambers and the Constitutional Court --consists of 9 judges
Supreme Court judges nominated by Judicial Commission, appointed by president with concurrence of parliament; judges serve until retirement at age 65
Constitutional Court judges - 3 nominated by president, 3 by Supreme Court, and 3 by parliament; judges appointed by the president; judges serve until mandatory retirement at age 70
Subordinate Courts: High Courts of Appeal, district courts, religious courts
Suffrage at 17 years of age; universal and married persons regardless of age
US Embassy in Indonesia -- Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr. located at Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan 3-5, Jakarta 10110. Consulate in Medan.
Indonesian Embassy in the US -- Ambassador Budi Bowoleksono located at 2020 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036. Consulates inChicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
Mr. Desra Percaya is the Indonesian Representative for the United Nations
Declared independence on August 17, 1945
Holidays: Independence Day, August 17
Internally Displaced:At least 31,440
Illicit Drug Trafficking/Use:illicit producer of cannabis largely for domestic use; producer of methamphetamine and ecstasy; President Widodo's war on drugs has led to an increase in death sentences and executions, particularly of foreign drug traffickers
International Disputes:
Indonesia has a stated foreign policy objective of establishing stable fixed land and maritime boundaries with all of its neighbors
Refugees from Timor-Leste who left in 2003 still reside in Indonesia and refuse repatriation
No data for Number of Refugees, Stateless Persons, or Human Trafficking
The flag has two equal horizontal bands of red and white; the colors derive from the banner of the Majapahit Empire of the 13th-15th centuries; red symbolizes courage, white represents purity.
The garuda, a mythical bird, is a national symbol of Indonesia.
International Disputes (continued):
Land and maritime negotiations with Malaysia are ongoing
Indonesia and Singapore continue to work on finalizing their 1973 maritime boundary agreement by defining unresolved areas
Illegal migrants create repatriation problems for Papua New Guinea
Maritime delimitation talks continue with Palau
EEZ negotiations with Vietnam are ongoing
Australian/Indonesian borders have been settled but water boundaries have yet to be settled