Jakarta – The director of the Bali Legal Aid Foundation (LBH), Ni Kadek Vany Primaliraning, has been reported to the Bali regional police for…
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Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced on Monday the current social restrictions have been extended by another week, citing their…
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A court in Indonesia has acquitted six villagers in a dispute against a tapioca factory, ruling that the criminal…
A pair of Sumatran tigers are recovering from COVID-19 after testing positive for the disease at a Jakarta zoo in mid-July, Indonesian officials…
Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies researcher and environmentalist Cypri Jehan Paju Dale on…
Antara, Jakarta – A specimen study has shown that the highly-contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has spread almost evenly throughout…
Indonesia's devastating second coronavirus wave, which saw the South-East Asian country become the epicentre of Asia's COVID-19 outbreak, has…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Moderna Covid-19 booster shots are exclusively for health workers, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said.…
Bloomberg – Most Indonesians cited a lack of available doses as the reason why they're not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Among those who…
August 1, 2021
Antara, Jakarta – The number of active COVID-19 cases in Jakarta has dropped to 19,656 as of Saturday, July 31, 2021, according to data provided…
Abbie O'Brien – The idle streets, vacant shops and deserted beaches across Bali are a sobering reminder of how the island has been devastated by…
Nivell Rayda, Bogor, Indonesia – The sun was blazing hot when four volunteers from the local COVID-19 task force, draped in full personal…
Herman, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Japanese auto giant Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has recently announced that Indonesia became its…
Antara, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD has called for religious leaders support to' expedite…
Jakarta – Indonesia on Sunday received 3.5 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the US government, bringing the total doses donated…
July 31, 2021
Jakarta – After chairing a Cabinet ministers meeting on July 13, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said the 20th National Games (PON) in Papua would…
Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesian mother Ekarina resorted to private tutors to teach her only daughter, Athira, from February this year as…
Erwin Renaldi – Santi Nigro has been running to raise money for oxygen supplies in Indonesia.
Every now and then she has to stop running and…
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has called on the international community to immediately suspend Indonesia from the UN Human…
July 30, 2021
Antara, Jakarta – The number of passengers at MRT Jakarta declined by 80 percent or 4,450 people on average per day in July 2021, during the…
Indonesians are not only uniting to cheer the country's representatives at the 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics, but they've also come together to lambast…
Johnny Blades – As with much of Indonesia, the country's eastern-most provinces of Papua and West Papua are struggling to contain the spread of…
Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Prosecutors in Indonesia have sought the death penalty for eight people accused of smuggling crystal…
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Timor-Leste is witnessing a significant increase in new cases of Covid-19 as the epicenter of the pandemic has shifted south…
Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's President Joko Widodo said the country still can't resort to a full lockdown even as it tops the world's daily…
Abdallah Naem and Aisyah Llewellyn – As the Delta variant sweeps through Indonesia, causing a record 2,069 deaths on Tuesday (July 27), regions…
Jakarta – The Indonesian government allegedly is not being honest in the provision of pandemic data for political reason.
Doctoring data on…
Dewi Nurita, Antara, Jakarta – Legal adviser to Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko, Otto Hasibuan, rebuffed the statement made by the…
Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Association for Education and Teachers (P2G) asked the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Nadiem…
Hanoi – The 11th meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Working Group on Timor-Leste's Application for ASEAN Membership was held on July 29 via…
Jakarta – The Justice and Human Rights Ministry is donating 46,614 food packages for pandemic-affected communities across the archipelago.
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Benjamin Brimelow – Tensions continue to rise in the Indo-Pacific, where China's economic growth and military modernization have drawn the…
July 29, 2021
Luke Hunt – Timor-Leste is emerging as an unlikely regional diplomatic player amid a renewed push to gain membership of the Association of…
Muhammad Beni Saputra – Indonesia's illegal gold mining problems reveal deeper issues with local level corruption and economic inequality. In…
Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to invest US$312 billion to reach its target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030,…
Medan – Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupted on Wednesday, spewing a massive column of smoke and ash into the sky.
The eruption of the volcano…
A couple who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine are facing banishment from a Bali village, and are seeking legal action over the alleged…
Egi Adyatama, Maudey K. Setyakusuma (Intern), Jakarta – Violent acts against a Papuan was again caught on camera, on Wednesday, July 28. This time…
Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Acting Secretary of the Jakarta Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) Augustinus clarified that there was no injection…
Antara, Mega Safitri, Jakarta – Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology Director, Amin Subandrio, stated that the Covid-19 Delta Plus variant (B.1…
Indonesia – Some residents of an Indonesian island where a world-class luxury resort and motor-racing circuit is being constructed with China-…
Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) has again created controversy over a plan to provide special three-star hotel facilities for…
Yamin Kogoya – Shocking video footage showing a brutal and inhumane assault on a deaf Papuan teenager named Steven has emerged from the Merauke…
TAPOL strongly condemns the conduct of two airforce personnel who severely beat a disabled man, Steven Yadohamang, in Merauke, West Papua province…
Heru Andriyanto & Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – Indonesia has been enduring its worst period yet of the Covid-19 pandemic with the highest…
Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry predicts that the world is moving toward a new norm in which vaccine…
July 28, 2021
Victor Mambor, Jayapura – Two air force military police have reportedly racially tortured an 18-year-old Papuan in Merauke on Monday, July 26,…
A street seller in West Jakarta may have had the shock of his life after finding out that COVID-19 patients were among his recent customers.
…As the dust settles on the outrage surrounding a proposal for a dedicated COVID-19 hospital for members of the House of Representatives (DPR), the…
Sydney Allen – Indonesia is facing a "COVID-19 tsunami" that is affecting families throughout the archipelago. While all of Southeast Asia has…




