Dewi Loveard in Jakarta and Nicola Smith – Like many young children, Vino, 10, is afraid of the dark.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Indonesia's top medical body has criticized a government policy of allowing Covid-19 patients to self-isolate at home, saying more than 2,000 have died because o

Siswo Mulyartono – Last month, there were at least three major conflicts involving houses of worship across Indonesia.

The government doesn't seem to appreciate the jokes and memes in expense of the eyebrow-raising 20-minute dine-in time limit, justifying its enforcement on the fact that other countries

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta Government on Monday said the bed occupancy rates of COVID-19 isolation and ICU facilities at hospitals in Jakarta had shown signs of reduction

Robert Campion – Despite a surge in death rates, amid an uncontrolled outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Indonesian government of President Joko Widodo is moving to loosen l

Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has issued three instructions on the Covid-19 curbs, as Indonesia extends its strict social restrictions.

The Wisma Atlet COVID-19 facility now has half of its rooms vacant for the first time since the latest wave of the coronavirus outbreak began ravaging Indonesia in June, offering hope t

A group of villagers in Toba regency, North Sumatra assaulted a COVID-19 patient in what appeared to be an egregious violation of the victim's rights, only for local authorities to say

Indonesia's government has said small businesses and some shopping malls can reopen despite warnings that loosening curbs could spark another Covid wave.

Syafiq Hasyim – Although the mainstream Muslim organisations had supported closing mosques during Indonesia's current round of emergency Covid-19 restrictions, the government subsequent

Before the pandemic, Mamik Nariati's five grandchildren were given free immunisations for diseases like polio, mumps and Hepatitis B at their school in the city of Surabaya in East Java

Jakarta (New York Times) – Hundreds of children in Indonesia have died from the coronavirus in recent weeks, many of them younger than five, a mortality rate greater than that of any ot

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government has delayed plans to establish a travel corridor with Singapore after Indonesia extended its multi-tiered public mobility restrictions

Adi Kurniawan and Heru Asprihanto, Jakarta – Muhammad Ihsan gratefully lugs an oxygen cylinder into a small office in Jakarta's outskirts, lining the breathing equipment up with scores

Sudibyo Wiradji, Jakarta – Indonesia is scrambling to restore its sizeable mangrove forest loss, with the national Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM) tasked with accelerati

Jakarta (Agencies) – Indonesia is expecting to receive 45 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in August, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a virtual news conference on Monday

Antara, Jakarta – The popular Tanah Abang Market in Central Jakarta has been reopened by its market management as of Monday, July 26, following the slackened public activity restriction

Antara, Jakarta – A number of restaurant owners have questioned the 20-minute dine-in time limit imposed in the public activity restrictions (PPKM) level 4, which is effective from July

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesian Ombudsman member Robert Na Endi Jaweng said his side found alleged manipulation of a meeting document on the discussion of regulations related to the

Putu Savitri, Fadhli Ruhman, Jakarta – The Penal Code (KUHP) does not yet provide adequate protection to women victims of sexual violence, Commissioner of the National Commission on Wom

Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing more intensive care units after logging several days of record-high Covid-19 deaths last week, while the country waits to see whether the government wil

A'an Suryana, Singapore – The latest tragedy in Indonesia's fight against COVID-19 is the extraordinary rise of fatalities among Indonesian doctors.

Denpasar, Bali (Agencies) – Bali province is running out of oxygen for its COVID-19 patients as infections surge, the chief of its health agency said, as Indonesia struggles with the re

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – The daily number of Covid-19 burials at Rorotan Public Cemetery in Cilincing, North Jakarta has dropped to below 100 in recent days.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – A number of private companies are joining forces to build a 500-bed isolation facility for Covid-19 patients in East Jakarta, expected to become operatio

Heru Andriyanto, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia has recorded 38,679 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours as four-week lockdown entered the last day on Sunday, government figures show

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A partial lockdown has been extended in Indonesia as plans are being finalised to ramp up contact tracing and reinforce quarantine facilities in the cou

Jakarta – Social restrictions continue until next week with several modifications, including permit for sit-down meals and drinks at outdoor restaurants, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – Police set out barbed wire and concrete barricades around the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Saturday in an effort to tighten security after calls for a

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's accelerated vaccination drive has hit a speed bump as its stock of Covid-19 vaccines ready for use is almost fully utilised, preventing it f

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Dian Anggraeni has been trying to get herself vaccinated against COVID-19 for the past two months. But so far, her attempts have been unsuccessful.

The speed and scale of the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia has created a perfect breeding ground for a potential new super-strain that could be even more contagious and deadly than th

Jakarta – In her annual statement in January, Foreign Minister Retno L P Marsudi said Indonesia would focus on "health security diplomacy".

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Max Lane – In Indonesia, a paid vaccination programme bombed out in a span of days.

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – When Martin, a 63-year-old resident of west Jakarta, lost his mother-in-law to COVID-19 last week, he set about organising her cremation.

Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta and Rebecca Ratcliffe – Scenes that have for months haunted hospitals across Indonesia's Java island are appearing across the country, as the Delta varia

Tasha Wibawa – A COVID-19 crisis has unfolded as the highly transmissible Delta variant tears through Indonesia, where health facilities have buckled under the pressure.

Jakarta (Antara) – Indonesia is temporarily pulling its diplomats out of North Korea in response to the latter's coronavirus lockdown, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) on Thursday extended the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States Ambassador Sung Yong Kim regarding

Joe Lo – The Indonesian government has released an updated 2030 climate plan and long term strategy that indicate the country's reliance on coal will continue well into the 2050's.

Caesar Akbar, Budiarti Utami, Aji Nugroho, Jakarta – Ivermectin continues to be a hot topic of discussion after the antiparasitic drug – which has been excluded by India from its list o

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency (BPOM) cautioned stakeholders, including pharmaceutical firms that produce Ivermectin, to stop promoting the medicine as a t

Kate Lamb – Indonesia is suffering a devastating wave of coronavirus infections, driven by the Delta variant, but the government is already talking about relaxing social curbs enacted e

Mega Safitri, Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) urged Firli Bahuri to immediately step down as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman.

The story of a third grader from East Kalimantan who became an orphan after his parents succumbed to COVID-19 has tugged at the hearts of Indonesians across the country.

Antara, Jakarta – The head of the work committee (Panja) on the sexual violence eradication bill (RUU PKS), Willy Aditya, said that the bill will cover sexual violence in the digital re

Indonesians turning to drugs during the pandemic has become a topic of discussion after a certain celebrity couple's recent meth bust, with official data pointing towards increased abus

Residents of a village in East Java's Situbondo regency were caught on film destroying the coffin of a deceased COVID-19 patient, the video of which has widely circulated in Indonesia.