Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesia has been grappling with a surge in COVID-19 infections for the past few weeks, consistently recording more than…
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July 11, 2021
Jakarta – Almost half of Jakarta's 10 million population has had Covid-19 at a point in time since the pandemic began last year, a serology survey…
Jakarta – The National Defense Forces (TNI) recruited thousands of medical and non-medical volunteers at the TNI Headquarters in Jakarta on…
Jakarta – Indonesia held a moment of silence on Saturday morning to remember the lives lost to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The one-minute silence…
Antara, Jakarta – The government has set the price for Sinopharm complete vaccination at Rp879,140 per person, said the spokesperson of the Health…
Jakarta – University of Indonesia epidemiologist Pandu Riono is questioning the grounds for the government changing the emergency Enforcement of…
July 10, 2021
Dian Septiari, Jakarta – The government has announced a plan to give nearly 1.5 million health workers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from United…
Zena Chamas, Farid M Ibrahim and Max Walden – Each night, Tara McGowan hears ambulances drive past her home every 10 minutes. In the past week…
Singapore – Entry approvals for travellers from Indonesia to Singapore who are not citizens or permanent residents here will be reduced with…
Adi Kurniawan, Jakarta (Reuters) – As Indonesia struggles to tackle a devastating surge in COVID-19 infections, authorities in Jakarta have…
Jakarta – Soon environmental destruction is on the same level as genocide and will come under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court…
July 9, 2021
Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Assistance from neighboring countries began trickling into Indonesia on Friday, as Singapore and Australia sent medical…
Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta and Rebecca Ratcliffe – From her home in Pamekasan, East Java, Dr Ratna Hermawati can hear the names of the dead…
Jakarta – No matter how impolite it is, criticism of the government from students must not be muzzled. Allowing rectors to hold a position in…
Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Police have arrested three people in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province for attacking a Protestant church.
…Foreigners in Bali are making headlines in Indonesia (yet again) this week amid tighter COVID-19 restrictions in the province, the…
July 8, 2021
Jakarta – Ivermectin is being promoted by a number of politicians and businesspeople as an effective treatment against the coronavirus. The Food…
Like a broken record, the Jakarta Provincial Government is urging people to stay at home amid a devastating surge in COVID-19 cases, which saw the…
A'an Suryana and Nur Syafiqah Mohd Taufek – Facing a sentence that will see him behind bars till 2025, radical cleric Habib Rizieq Shihab will…
Adam Prireza, Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government on Thursday has launched a mobile Covid-19 vaccination program, which…
Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The government confirmed on Thursday the highly transmissible Delta variant is the main…
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Timor-Leste has stepped up efforts to seal its border with neighboring Indonesia to prevent the entry of the Covid-19 Delta…
Jakarta (AFP) – Indonesians have ignored warnings against stocking up on a "miracle cure" for Covid-19 backed by leading politicians and social…
Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Hospitals across the Indonesian island of Java are running out of oxygen, medicines, beds and even staff as a…
Claire Jiao, Grace Sihombing and Haslinda Amin – Indonesia's finance minister expects the budget deficit to stay elevated next year as the nation'…
Jakarta (Agencies) – The lead scientist on China's Sinovac vaccine trials in Indonesia died of suspected COVID-19 on Wednesday, Indonesian media…
Natasya Salim and Erwin Renaldi – It's been nine days since mother-of-four Seli Aisyah went to visit her parents, despite being warned not to.…
Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Communications and Informatics Ministry spokesperson Dedy Permadi in a written statement on…
M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – The Metro Jaya Police Inspector General Mohammad Fadli Imran on Thursday announced the arrest of three groups…
M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Dozens of Presidential Security Detail (Paspampres) personnel reportedly flocked the West Jakarta…
Jakarta – Volunteer groups are calling on the government to take decisive action against the ongoing COVID-19 surge, which has crippled the…
Jakarta (Antara) – Indonesia became the world's third biggest contributor of Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, 7 July 2021. According to…
July 7, 2021
Fitria Chusna Farisa, Jakarta – Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Principle Expert Ade Irfan Pulungan says that there is no urgent need to ask…
Joining the plethora of venues opening up for COVID-19 jabs in the capital, MRT Jakarta is launching a vaccination drive tomorrow targeting those…
Chris Barrett, Singapore – For days, as Indonesia's hospitals have buckled, oxygen has run low and COVID-19 infections and deaths have soared to…
Mentari Dwi G/Suharto, Jakarta – The police fired water cannon to disperse crowds in front of Plaza Kenari Mas in Central Jakarta on Tuesday as…
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An attack that saw a man vandalize and attempt to burn down a Protestant church in Indonesia last month was the act of a…
Aryo Danusiri – The Indonesian government's recent campaign to promote an upcoming sports event in Papua shows the country, with more than 1,300…
James Guild – COVID-19 has battered Indonesian flag carrier Garuda's revenue and sent earnings plunging, causing trading of the airline's shares…
Jakarta (Agencies) – Indonesia expanded nationwide coronavirus curbs Wednesday to battle its deadliest COVID-19 wave yet, as the death toll…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jeis Montesori, Jakarta – The government is considering imposing more stringent Covid-19 rules outside Java and Bali islands…
Antara, Papua – The Indonesian government has hinted that it will go ahead with the scheduled convening of Papua's 2021 PON National Games even…
Jakarta – Indonesia's major online marketplace companies, including Shopee and Tokopedia, have cracked down on sellers on their platform, which…
Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Public Health is calling on the government to apologise over the state of the Covid-19 pandemic which…
Hengky Yeimo, Jayapura – The Papuan Students Alliance in Surabaya, East Java have staged a protest on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to commemorate the…
Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – A shortage of beds, oxygen supply and ventilators in Indonesia has left doctors with the dreadful decision of who among…
Chris Barrett, Singapore – Australia will send 2.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Indonesia as well as testing kits and ventilators…
Robert Campion – In Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, a humanitarian disaster is unfolding similar to what occurred in India in…
Jakarta – Transparency International (TI) has sent a letter to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo asking him to cancel the dismissal of non-active…




