Triyan Pangastuti, Muhammad Ghafur Fadillah, Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – The government has increased the Covid-19 and national economic recovery (PC-PEN) fund by 19 percent and provided t

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo stated he would ask the House of Representatives (DPR) to revise the Information and Electronic Transaction Law or ITE Law

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia has made coronavirus vaccination for citizens compulsory and is set to allow the private sector to help inoculate the population to reach herd

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – At least 168 people, mainly children, have died after falling into abandoned mining pits across Indonesia over the past seven years, according to a new rep

Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Asfinawati has responded to plans to revise the Information and Electronic Transaction (ITE) Law.

Millions of Indonesians fell into poverty during the pandemic, new data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) showed, pushing the country's poverty rate above 10 percent.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) on Sunday reported that a major landslide had happened in an East Java village in the province's area of Nganjuk w

A contract teacher in Bone, South Sulawesi was reportedly fired for posting about her relatively small pay on social media, her case drawing sympathy for non-permanent educators from ma

Nganjuk, Indonesia – Torrential rains triggered a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java, killing at least four people and leaving 14 others missing, as emergency personnel diggin

Inaya Rakhmani, Evi Eliyanah and Zulfa Sakhiyya – COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis to universities around the world.

Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will start the second round of mass vaccination against coronavirus targeting priority groups other than medical workers on Wednes

Meleva Thorn, Perth – After a year of bushfires, floods, and drought, the Australian agricultural industry is on the road to recovery.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – It is not just the restaurants. Grab's motorcycle taxis, or GrabBike, drivers also benefit from food delivery service GrabFood.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has made suggestions in response to Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's plan to turn the capital into a Clima

Hendartyo Hanggi, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) on Monday reported that Indonesia's January 2021 trade balance saw a surplus up to US$1.96 billion which was boosted by larger fig

Antara, Jakarta – The Health Ministry appealed to local governments to accelerate the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program for health workers over concerns about the vaccines

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Conflicts over land flared up across Indonesia in 2020, as Indigenous and rural communities tried to hold off pulpwood, palm oil and logging companies ramp

By Raghu Gururaj

Introduction

Dicky Agung Prihanto, Jakarta – The Depok city Education Offices has issued a circular banning students from celebrating Valentine's Day, which falls on February 14.

Linda Morris – A haunting video art installation acknowledging the murderous history of anti-communist purges in Bali has won this year's Blake Prize.

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – A grassroots movement in one of Indonesia's worst-hit regions for Covid-19 has emerged to ease a crisis in healthcare in the country with hospitals unable to co

Wishnu Bagus Prasetyo, Jakarta – The government has decided to assign MNC Lido City, a resort megaproject owned by MNC Land, a Jakarta-listed property company controlled by media tycoon

Kyunghoon Kim, KCL – Indonesia is establishing a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) in the coming weeks.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas) Governor Agus Widjojo on Thursday said that the results of the 2020 simultaneous regional head elections (Pilkada)

Shweta Sharma – A wedding planning company in Indonesia has come under fire for encouraging child marriages of girls as young as twelve years old, sparking outrage in the country.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Palm oil-driven deforestation is slowing down in Southeast Asia in 2020 but a handful of low-profile companies continue to drive the majority of the destru

Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta, and Associated Press – A malfunctioning automatic throttle may have caused the pilots of a Sriwijaya Air jet to lose control, leading to the Boeing 737-

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesian police are investigating a wedding organiser that has promoted controversial child marriage as well as unregistered marriages.

Jeffrey Hutton, Jakarta – In Indonesia, it can cost twice as much to transport a refrigerated container of oranges from Jakarta to Jayapura, in Papua, a distance of more than 4,300km, t

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi," Widodo said on Thursday that the government would start administering Covid-19 vaccination next week to public servants and work

Bisnis.Com, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo stated that the enforcement of a large-scale lockdown would be highly detrimental to the economy of the affected regions whereas a l

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko acknowledged that the growth of palm oil plantations presented a dilemma.

Rini Kustiani, Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim launched the Kampus Mengajar or Teaching Campus program as part of the Merdeka Belajar (Freedom Campus) policy alo

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan appealed to people who tested positive for Covid-19 to carry out self-isolation in government facilities, such as Wisma At

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) criticized the statement President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo made on Monday where he called for th

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia, Syahrizal Syarif, opined that Covid-19 cases in Jakarta and other regions could not be controlled without implemen

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is committed to extending US$2.3 million in aid to support Palestine's struggle for independence, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said.

Harry Jacques, Solok, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rai

Gisela Swaragita, Jakarta – Over the past few weeks, Indonesia's language agency Badan Bahasa has managed to irk gender and women activists alike by refusing to remove derogatory defini

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia's export levy prevents palm oil from reaping enormous profits from the rising price of crude palm oil, or CPO, plantation giant Astra Agro Lestar

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Thursday, Feb.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The daily number of coronavirus cases have left the five-digit territory in the last three days in an apparent sign that post-holiday surge in newly cases is

Luke Lischin – On January 12, 2021 Indonesian President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, issued Government Regulation (Peraturan Pemerintah) Number 3 of 2021 implementing National L

Jessica Washington and Syarina Hasibuan, Jakarta, Indonesia – One month ago, Rahmania Ekanda and her two young daughters boarded a flight at Indonesia's Soekarno-Hatta Airport.

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria said the elimination of the river normalization project noted in the draft of the 2017-2022 Jakarta mid-term developmen

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Spokesperson for the Covid-19 Handling Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, reported the good trend in the weekly pandemic mitigation.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Renowned political observer Rocky Gerung assessed President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's public call for more criticism as a paradox, saying that what the government ha

Jakarta – The government will start using rapid antigen test for tracing the Covid-19 suspects and plan to spend $100 on every person infected by the Sars-CoV2 virus, who had to self-qu

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's capital is racing to open more cemeteries to cope with the coronavirus death toll that has doubled in less than three months despite vaccination effort

Have Jakarta's streets been relatively free of maddening macet (traffic jams) over the past year?