Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Coordinator of volunteer group LaporCovid-19, Said Fariz Hibban, said the group highly regrets the Health Ministry's response which they claim has played

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) epidemiologist Pandu Riono on Sunday suggests the disbandment of the COVID-19 handling committee and national economic recovery (KPC-

Syaharani Putri, Jakarta – Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno in his latest Instagram post plans on banning popular online game Fortnite, believing the game goes

If one were to measure the effectiveness of tightened measures under the Emergency Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (Emergency PPKM) by traffic density, one would likely

Sania Mashabi, Jakarta – The initiator of the citizen data platform LaporCovid-19, Irma Hidayana, says that current the state of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia is because the govern

Jakarta – The government has decided to provide free telemedicine services to monitor Covid-19 patients who are self-isolating at home to ease the burden at overloaded hospitals across

Adi Kurniawan, Jakarta – Volunteer biker Sebastian Dwiyantoro and his team have been particularly busy helping ambulances navigate heavy traffic in Depok, West Java to get COVID-19 pati

Jakarta – Harmoko, the information minister during the New Order Era who became the public face of the Soeharto regime, passed away on Sunday. He was 82.

A devastating second wave of COVID-19 has led to desperation among many in Indonesia, to the point that this is as good a time as any to tout any random thing to be able to cure or prev

Jakarta – Indonesia set its coal benchmark price at the highest in more than a decade, an official document published by its energy and minerals ministry showed on Monday, supported by

Indonesia's new no vax, no fly policy is sending foreign nationals in Bali into a frenzy, from anti-vaxxers condemning the move, to travelers who prefer to get the COVID jab in their ho

Rieka Rahadiana and Arys Aditya – Indonesia will start importing oxygen cylinders to meet surging demand from Covid-19 patients as the country battles a fresh wave of infections that ov

Emma Connors, Singapore/Jakarta – Tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases each day have forced the Indonesian government to suspend months of careful planning to reopen the economy as i

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – The fears that Indonesia was heading down the same path as India are beginning to come to pass in devastating fashion.

Semarang – The police, the Indonesian military (TNI) and Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officials broke up a "Week of Resistance" action held by the Greater Semarang Student Executive

Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia has ordered oxygen makers to prioritise medical needs amid growing demand from COVID-19 patients, the government said on Sunday, following more

Hellena Souisa and Erwin Renaldi – Before he died, Mr Suherman said his father was consumed by coronavirus misinformation and "hoax messages" circulating on text messaging apps in his h

Jakarta – Huawei Indonesia, the local arm of the Shenzhen-based tech giant Huawei, pledged continuous support for Bandung Institute of Technology, or ITB, in technology sharing, as the

Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Tabita Diela, Jakarta – The next two weeks are critical for the success of Indonesia's efforts to rein in the coronavirus, as infections could rise until Saturda

Antara, Jakarta – The government has set the ceiling price for drugs used in COVID-19 treatment through the issuance of Health Minister's Decree No. HK.01.07/MENKES/4826/2021.

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – Authorities are imposing stricter mobility curbs during the latest round COVID-19 restrictions, dubbed the emergency public activity restrictions (PPKM Darurat), i

Jessica Washington and Syarina Hasibuan, Jakarta – From morning until midnight, Suherman and his fellow carpenters work in the heat – sawing, sanding and painting.

Jakarta – Jentera Indonesia School of Law (STH) Student Executive Council (BEM) Chairperson Renie Aryandani says that the nickname "The King of Lip Service" alias "The King of Bragging"

Jakarta – Indonesia reported 27,913 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday to continue a record-breaking run in daily numbers since the first day of the month, as lockdown in stricken areas beg

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The LaporCovid-19 (Report Covid-19) community and Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) reported that 265 Covid patients in self-isolation had succumbed to the

Jakarta – Renowned politician Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of founding father Sukarno, passed away on Saturday after being treated for Covid-19 for a week at a Jakarta hospita

Jakarta – The government imposed a partial lockdown Saturday in Jakarta, across the main island of Java and on Bali as Indonesia grapples with an unprecedented wave of coronavirus infec

News Agencies, Jakarta – The next two weeks will be a "critical time" for Indonesia, which is counting on new restrictions to bring surging coronavirus cases under control, a senior min

Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta – Standing outside the glass wall at one of the emergency installations in a hospital in Tangerang, Benten, Uta Verina Maukar, 26, looked at her mother a

Indonesia's most populated and popular islands are bracing for emergency lockdown measures from this weekend, with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo touting the inevitability of shifting p

Yuddy Cahya Budiman, Jakarta – General practitioner Cheras Sjarfi says the small public hospital where she works in south Jakarta was not ready for the influx of COVID-19 patients who a

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency, or BPOM, has issued an emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vaccine developed by US drug company ModernaTX I

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Gemma Holliani Cahya – Indonesia is tripling its oxygen supplies to hospitals as data suggests the Delta variant of coronavirus is now driving the country's worsen

Lee Sue-Ann – A divisive debate has broken out in regional social media over the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19.

Times of emergency may have finally spurred authorities in Bali into ditching their nice guy playbook, with foreign nationals now subject to immediate deportation should they be caught

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The scenes in Indonesia's hospitals in the past week have been eerily similar to those in India two months ago – hospital corridors jammed with COVID-19 patients a

Novan, Jakarta – The health ministers of Denmark and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding five fields of health cooperation: basic health services, remote

Hendartyo Hanggi, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati confirmed that the social cash assistance or BST program was extended by two months.

Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency uncovered a number of improprieties in the distribution of Covid-19 assistance. the principle of caution has not been applied.

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Health Ministry's Research and Development Agency published a study on the effectiveness of the Sinovac vaccine among health workers in Jakarta,

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – An epidemiologist with the Griffith University, Dicky Budiman, responded to the emergency PPKM (public activity restriction) the Indonesian government introduced

Robert Campion – The highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading rapidly around the globe, is fuelling an unprecedented surge of cases among the more than 270

Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Griffith University Epidemiologist Dicky Budiman has questioned a statement by Coordinating Minister for Investment and Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjai

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan kicked off the COVID-19 vaccination program for children aged 12-17 at state high school SMAN 20 in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta earlier today.

Edna Tarigan and Andi Jatmiko, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians lined up at a sports stadium to get a COVID-19 vaccine dose Thursday in a one-day, mass vaccination event that's part o

As Indonesia accelerates its mass vaccination program, certain details, such as whether or not foreigners may get the jab, have been lost in the flurry of information.

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Indonesia has been urged to try to buy any excess AstraZeneca vaccines from Australia amid a worsening COVID-19 crisis that is being compar

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has unveiled broad emergency community restrictions on Thursday (Jul 1) for the islands of Java and Bali, as the country battles a spik

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Indonesia has received 14,000 units of vaccine bulk from Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced during a livestreamed press