TIME Asia: Photo Essay - Indonesia's Elections

JOHN STANMEYER—VII FOR TIME

Indonesia's Elections
With 24 parties and 150 million eligible voters, Indonesia's colorful parliamentary elections are shaping up to be the biggest single-day electoral event in history

Hundreds of supporters dance to Dangdut music at a Golkar Party rally in Denpasar, Bali. Most people come to hear the music and see the dancing girls—not necessarily to listen to the politicians

Democracy in Action
Indonesia gears up for Parliamentary elections

Garden of Terror
Journalist Michael Vatikiotis creates a fictional island to explain Indonesia's violent past

Police Academy 1
At an unusual school in West Java, the U.S. is training and arming Indonesian cops to fight terrorism

Facing the Enemy Within
The Indonesian government must tell the whole truth about organized terror

Bali: Remembrance Day
One year after the Bali bombings, the island pauses to mourn those who lost their lives on Oct. 12, 2002

The Jakarta Hotel Bomb
An explosion rips through a lunchtime crowd, renewing terrorist fears in Indonesia

Operation Aceh
In Aceh province in Indonesia, the killing of children marks the grim beginning of what will be a gruesome war

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