Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Medical workers treating COVID-19 patients in Jakarta have reported that they have yet to receive the financial incentives announced by the central government

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Fadli, Batam – The National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad arrested a 16-year-old boy in his house in Merapi Subur housing complex in Batam, Riau Islands on Wednesday evenin

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia has seen a surge in coronavirus infections ahead of this weekend's celebrations marking the end of Ramadan, raising questions about the commitment t

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Jakartans disobey Covid-19 warnings and flock shopping centers around the city to get the Idul Fitri essentials – new clothes, new shoes, cookies, and sweets to c

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Indonesia faces the risk of even more COVID-19 infections after the Idul Fitri holiday this year, as family gatherings and homecoming journeys make up a large p

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News Desk, Jakarta – Ogan Ilir Regent Ilyas Panji Alam has dismissed 109 medical workers at the Ogan Ilir Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in South Sumatra for striking over safety and

Suherdjoko, Semarang – The Semarang city administration in Central Java has temporarily shut down the Kobong traditional market as 26 people tested positive for COVID-19 after rapid te

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Experts have called on the government to conduct a forensic audit into a breach of millions of Indonesian citizens' data that was allegedly stolen and share

Arya Dipa and Ardila Syakriah, Bandung – West Java, being a close neighbor of Jakarta, has been among the provinces hardest hit by COVID-19, but it is looking into easing curbs in "low

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Haeril Halim (AFP) – Indonesians are turning to smugglers and bogus travel documents to get around bans on an annual end-of-Ramadan exodus that could send coronavirus cases skyrocketin

Farouk Arnaz, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Business tycoon Hary Tanoesoedibjo has come to save the day when top politicians are facing embarrassment after the top bidder of an e

Asip Hasani, Surabaya, East Java – Following the province's highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases to date, an epidemiologist on Thursday warned of another probable spike after Idul

Belseran Christ, Jakarta and Maluku – A 4-year-old child from Wara Kolam Sembilan hamlet in Ambon, Maluku, died on Thursday after being denied admission by four hospitals in Ambon that

Lex Rieffel and Michael Castle-Miller – Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's announcement last August that a new capital would be built in East Kalimantan has been widely met wi

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Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Indonesia is set to receive a US$56 million grant from Norway as the first payment for the former's success in reducing deforestation and carbon emissions u

For millions around the world COVID 19 is one more terrible threat to an existence already precarious because of poverty and conflict.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – This article is part of The Jakarta Post's "Forging the New Norm" special coverage series, on how people are forging their lives anew to adjust to the new

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's National Covid-19 Task Force on Friday reported 48 more patients had died from coronavirus-related diseases in the past 24 hours, bringing the co

Suherdjoko, Semarang – The Semarang administration in Central Java has decided to extend its social-restriction policy for two weeks following the discovery of 17 COVID-19 cases in thr

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Repatriated Indonesians who have been quarantined for suspected COVID-19 infections in Tower 9 of Block C2 of the Kemayoran Athletes Village in North Ja

Jakarta – There have been a number of irregularities in the trial over the attack on Novel Baswedan. The judge needs to summon the former Greater Jakarta Police chief.