Resty Woro Yuniar (South China Morning Post) – More than 100 million people are eligible to vote in Indonesia's regional elections on Wednesday (Dec 2), making it one of the largest suc

Jakarta – The government must check the readiness of each school throughout the country before embarking on the controversial school reopening plan amid the recent spike in new COVID-19

Jakarta – National COVID-19 task force chief Doni Monardol has advised the public to remain at home during the year-end holidays due to potential extreme weather in the next two to thre

Riska Rahman and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/West Java – The Financial Services Authority (OJK) expects the newly passed Job Creation Law to help spur the issuance of municipal bonds and sukuk a

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Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) on Tuesday strongly criticized the fatal shooting by police personnel against six members of

Hendartyo Hanggi, M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, on Monday urged for the police institution's transparency in reporti

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) is determined to provide a way for self-isolating and hospitalized people with COVID-19 to exercise their voting rights in the simultane

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga saw signs of recovery in its operations and finance nearing the end of the year, following the loosening

Farouk Arnaz & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian Police on Tuesday welcomed a plan by the National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, to launch probe into the killin

Jakarta – Hundreds of polling station officers across 12 regencies and cities in South Sulawesi have shown reactive results after taking COVID-19 rapid tests ahead of the simultaneous r

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has appointed three new spokespersons for COVID-19 procurement and vaccination affairs following the arrival on Sunday of 1.2 million doses of a cand

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Six people believed to be members of hardline group Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, were killed in a highway shootout just after midnight on Monday, police

Anwar Siswadi (Contributor), Jakarta – Fatigue has struck doctors and nurses working amidst the COVID-19 pandemic that has lasted for 9-months so far in Indonesia, the same is experienc

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Dewi Anggraeni on Monday said the suspect naming of Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara by the Corruption Eradic

Tan Jia Ning, Singapore – Pollsters in Indonesia have been unerring since direct presidential elections were introduced in 2004.

James Massola – The arrival of 1.2 million Sinovac vaccines in Jakarta is, for President Joko Widodo, desperately welcome news given his country has been hit harder by COVID-19 than any

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia has spent Rp 637.3 billion (US$45 million) to procure a coronavirus vaccine from China as the government prepares for a mass vaccination program.

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Jakarta – An expert has expressed his concerns over public resistance to a future COVID-19 immunization program caused by hoaxes surrounding the vaccines being developed.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have shot dead six people thought to be supporters of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab in response to a purported attack

Rizki Fachriansyah and Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – Indonesia's ongoing battle against corruption appears to be making little headway as fewer people expressed enthusiasm for the government

Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has urged the government to cancel school reopening in January 2021 if the regional elections will go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday,

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government on Friday released a shipment of exports worth US$1.64 billion by 133 large and small businesses to seek alternative markets and to rev

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The surge in coronavirus cases continues in West Java where daily numbers have been reaching four digits for the last three days, putting them on a par with t

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – The first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech has arrived in Indonesia, but the government still has to wait for emergency u

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has extended the transitional period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for another two weeks starting Monday until Dec.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's social affairs minister turned himself in to anti-corruption authorities on Sunday to face charges of taking bribes related to the government's COV

Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has reported an update on COVID-19 fatalities in medical and health workers, with a total of 342 deaths, almost nine months after Indo

Jakarta – As a COVID-19 survivor, gynecologist Ulul Albab describes the disease as a wake-up call for him to pay more attention to his body.

Jakarta – It has been over nine months since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first COVID-19 cases in Indonesia in March, but the country has yet to see much improvement in

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara has been named a suspect in a graft case involving the distribution of COVID-19 social aid.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – An angry President Joko Widodo rebuked Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara on Sunday for allegedly stealing funds from the humanitarian assistance

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara was named a corruption suspect on Sunday for allegedly collecting fees from the Rp 5.9 trillion ($416 million) wo

Fana Suparman, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara has turned himself in on Sunday after the anti-corruption agency named him as a suspect

Antara, Jakarta – The National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) has named West Sumatra gubernatorial candidate Mulyadi as a suspect in a case pertaining to violati

Antara, Jakarta – As many as 313 flood victims from Tanjung Selamat village, Sunggal sub-district, Deli Serdang district, North Sumatra, are currently lodged at two command posts set up

Jakarta – West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has blamed Thursday's spike of 1,648 daily cases in the province on data discrepancies.

Jakarta – Karawang in West Java has seen a recent surge of asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers that brought several referral hospitals and isolation facilities to full capacity.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 6,089 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday to bring the total number of cases to 575,796, as the struggle to contain the outbreak continues a

James Massola – When Indonesia clocked up more than 8369 coronavirus cases on Thursday, there was a collective intake of breath among COVID-19 watchers across the region.

Nicholas Ryan Aditya, Jakarta – The head of the Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network's (SAFEnet) Association of Victims of the Transactions Law (UU ITE) sub-division, Muhammad A

Jakarta – The coal downstream project could lead to the state losing money. It is more expensive than importing LPG.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – With waste management problems continuing to mount globally, Indonesia, as one of the world's largest waste producers, has a key role to play in developing comp

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has launched the SDG7 road map for Indonesia to help the country accompl

Medan, Indonesia – Torrential rains in Indonesia's third largest city caused four rivers to overflow, flooding thousands of homes and killing at least five people, officials said Friday

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Banten – Hotels just outside Jakarta are doing brisk business, with their meeting rooms mostly booked for the past few months by civil servants, who incidentally

Jakarta – As countries begin taking the leap by approving the use of candidate vaccines to fight the pandemic, the Indonesian government issued on Friday a decree to allow for the use o

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The coronavirus outbreak is entering the worst period in Indonesia more than nine months after first infection cases were confirmed, with the surge in newly c

Bilveer Singh – On November 10, the firebrand Islamic preacher Rizieq Shihab returned to Indonesia from exile in Saudi Arabia to a hero's welcome.