Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) on Friday has officially introduced the GeNose C19 Covid-19 screening services in Jakarta's major railway

Indonesia's gross domestic product (GDP) fell slightly more than expected in the fourth quarter, tipping Southeast Asia's largest economy into its first full-year contraction in more th

Dozens of Indonesian terror victims, mainly those from the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, were finally granted compensation yesterday, following years of struggle for financial support

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesia and Malaysia are committed to working together to combat international discrimination against palm oil, the countries' leaders said in Jakarta on Frida

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – It was 8pm on one of the busiest intersections in western Jakarta. Three men in metallic paint from head to toe stood on the footpath.

We didn't see it coming, but Indonesian shamans and psychics have formally established the Indonesian Shaman Association (Perdunu) in Banyuwangi, East Java.

Antara, Jakarta – The Covid-19 task force on Friday revealed that the provinces of West Kalimantan and Riau can be the references for other regencies in terms of managing the pandemic.

Bisnis, Jakarta – The Indonesian government through the Finance Ministry's staffer, Yustinus Prastowo, said that the incentives for healthcare workers in the 2021 State Budget (APBN) wi

Jakarta – The government needs to carefully study the plan to build a thorium power station in Bangka Belitung. Environmentally friendly energy sources must be prioritized.

Sebastian Strangio – Earlier this week, the Indonesian government banned public schools from making religious attire mandatory for teachers and students, in the government's latest appa

Yohanes Sulaiman – Firebrand and head of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) Muhamad Rizieq returned to Indonesia from his exile in Saudi Arabia on 10 November 2020.

Jakarta – Scores of people from the Urban Poor People's Network (JRMK) and the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) held a solidarity action in front of the Burmese Embassy in Jakarta on Friday

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Coronavirus has killed 1,204 people in Indonesia in the first five days of the month, despite early indications that related death toll and new infections hav

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – World's largest palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia reiterated their commitment to fighting off negative campaign and discriminatory policy against

Anwar Siswadi, Jakarta – A team of researchers from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in Bandung has created two robots that are able to conduct indoor sterilization dubbed th

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has issued a decree banning state schools from interfering in the religious beliefs of students and teachers in a move that is being hail

Online marketplace giant Shopee apologized after coming under fire over a controversial paid post that made fun of sexual harassment victims, which prompted netizens to trend #Uninstall

As seriously ill COVID-19 patients are starting to fill up hospital beds in Bali, health officials in the province are bracing for even more patients to come while stressing the importa

Fransiska Nangoy, Fathin Ungku, Jakarta – Indonesia will no longer permit mining waste to be disposed in the ocean to allay concerns about the environmental impact of processing nickel

Those at the very front of Indonesia's fight against COVID-19 may see a reduction in their incentives, as the Finance Ministry seeks to make cuts to financial stimulus for health worker

The Indonesian government has issued a decree banning regional governments and public schools from mandating religious elements on student uniforms, following a public outcry over an im

Jakarta's traffic cameras will undergo a technological upgrade, police say, so that they will have the ability to catch a larger array of traffic violations in the capital.

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) Secretary-General Dewi Karika argued that the validation process of electronic land certificates has the potential to worsen

It was only a matter of time before somebody sniffed an opportunity to make a quick buck out of Indonesia's latest COVID-19 screening tech.

Melanie Chalil, Kuala Lumpur – Indonesian actress Nikita Mirzani has plans to give out free condoms to communities across her country to prevent unwanted pregnancies during Covid-19.

Dion Bisara, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A United States citizen has run for a district head election in Sabu Raijua, a region in one of Indonesia's poorest provinces East Nusa Tenggara, a

Jakarta – The government's decision to go ahead with the appointment of a problematic university rector sends the wrong message to the public. The quality of research is at stake.

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Minister of Research and Technology Bambang Brodjonegoro on Wednesday claims that the Covid-19 screening device dubbed the GeNose C19 – which was

Indonesia is intensifying its COVID-19 mass vaccination efforts with plans to accelerate shipment of the CoronaVac vaccine into the country.

An elderly woman in West Jakarta was caught on video admitting her intention to cook several cats for asthma medication, believing that consuming felines is a potent cure for the respir

Bimandra Djaafara, Fahrin Ramadan Andiwijaya, Fiona Verisqa, Ihsan Fadilah, Kartika Saraswati and Rizka Maulida – The Indonesian government policy to exclude the elderly (aged 60 years

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Carlos K.Y.

Bisnis, Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin on Monday went on Youtube calling people to strictly adhere to the Java-Bali PPKM social restriction that the government has impl

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – The Indonesian government says it aims to purge the country's civil service of people who support or have links to Islamic hardline groups after revealing that h

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Illegal loggers in Indonesia's remote Papua region have largely evaded any meaningful kind of punishment and continue to operate unimpeded, in what a new r

Hipolitus Wangge – The Pacific region has been rising on the Indonesian diplomatic horizon for twenty years, yet it has rarely been a priority.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The fourth batch of Covid-19 vaccine from Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday.

Meleva Thorn, Jakarta – Indonesia has taken the path to electric vehicles since President Joko Widodo in late 2019 issued a decree detailing the timeline to achieve a certain amount of

Jakarta – Indonesia has detained a British woman named in a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations, authorities told AFP.

Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) will review a number of policies including the collective leave days for Chinese New Year and Eid, after President Joko Widodo admitted that t

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Indonesia urges fellow Asean member state Myanmar to follow democratic principles, as defined in the bloc's charter, amid the ongoing military coup ov

Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson has been awarded the 2020 Oktovianus Pogau Award for Courage in Journalism. The award, announced Jan.

Anwar Siswadi, Bandung – Statistician from Padjadjaran University (Unpad) Yuyun Hidayat predicted that the number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia would continue to increase until mid-Feb

Elena Couper, Jakarta – The Indonesian palm oil industry, the biggest in the world, has suffered disruption during Covid-19.

Herman, Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Inflation in Indonesia has slowed down to the lowest level in three months in January.

The central government's Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (PPKM) partial lockdown protocol has not produced the desired outcomes, President Joko Widodo said, as he mulls

Mob justice is sadly common in Indonesia, but a recent incident saw one of the most frail members of society being roughed up by a group of men after she was accused of stealing money.

Rebecca Ratcliffe, Bangkok – An Indonesian family whose relatives died onboard the Sriwijaya Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea have filed legal action against Boeing, alleging t

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – January has become the deadliest month in the Indonesian coronavirus outbreak with 7,860 deaths, 51 percent higher than the previous monthly high recorded in

Vidi Legowo-Zipperer – In Germany, a 101-year-old nursing home resident was the first person to receive a COVID vaccine.