Jakarta – Jentera Indonesia School of Law (STH) Student Executive Council (BEM) Chairperson Renie Aryandani says that the nickname "The King of…

Jakarta – Renowned politician Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of founding father Sukarno, passed away on Saturday after being treated for…

Jakarta – The government imposed a partial lockdown Saturday in Jakarta, across the main island of Java and on Bali as Indonesia grapples with an…

News Agencies, Jakarta – The next two weeks will be a "critical time" for Indonesia, which is counting on new restrictions to bring surging…

Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta – Standing outside the glass wall at one of the emergency installations in a hospital in Tangerang, Benten, Uta…

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Gemma Holliani Cahya – Indonesia is tripling its oxygen supplies to hospitals as data suggests the Delta variant of…

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency, or BPOM, has issued an emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vaccine…

Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Griffith University Epidemiologist Dicky Budiman has questioned a statement by Coordinating Minister for Investment…

Robert Campion – The highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading rapidly around the globe, is fuelling an unprecedented…

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – An epidemiologist with the Griffith University, Dicky Budiman, responded to the emergency PPKM (public activity…

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Health Ministry's Research and Development Agency published a study on the effectiveness of the Sinovac…

Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency uncovered a number of improprieties in the distribution of Covid-19 assistance. the principle of caution has…

Hendartyo Hanggi, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati confirmed that the social cash assistance or BST program was extended by two…

Yuddy Cahya Budiman, Jakarta – General practitioner Cheras Sjarfi says the small public hospital where she works in south Jakarta was not ready…

Novan, Jakarta – The health ministers of Denmark and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding five fields of health…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The scenes in Indonesia's hospitals in the past week have been eerily similar to those in India two months ago – hospital…

Times of emergency may have finally spurred authorities in Bali into ditching their nice guy playbook, with foreign nationals now subject to…

Indonesia's most populated and popular islands are bracing for emergency lockdown measures from this weekend, with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo…

Lee Sue-Ann – A divisive debate has broken out in regional social media over the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. The focus of the debate…

Andreas Harsono – A recent ruling by Indonesia's Supreme Court canceled a government regulation issued in February that allowed millions of girls…

Damon Evans – East Timor could pocket just over $600 million if the Buffalo-10 exploration well, due to be drilled late October, is successful.…

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan kicked off the COVID-19 vaccination program for children aged 12-17 at state high school SMAN 20 in Sawah Besar,…

As Indonesia accelerates its mass vaccination program, certain details, such as whether or not foreigners may get the jab, have been lost in the…

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Indonesia has been urged to try to buy any excess AstraZeneca vaccines from Australia amid a…

Edna Tarigan and Andi Jatmiko, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians lined up at a sports stadium to get a COVID-19 vaccine dose Thursday in a one-…

Tabita Diela, Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesian business groups on Thursday urged authorities to ensure there is enough financial support…

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has unveiled broad emergency community restrictions on Thursday (Jul 1) for the islands of Java…

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Indonesia has received 14,000 units of vaccine bulk from Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin…

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Domestic travelers on long-distance transportation modes such as planes, buses, and trains must produce vaccination…

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – The number of children contracting the coronavirus has almost tripled since May, with infant deaths from COVID-19 rising…

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The number of Covid-19 cases among children in West Java was indeed the highest at 45,450, followed by Riau with 9,224…

Indonesia has boosted its COVID-19 vaccination hopes with millions of doses set to arrive in the coming months amid an acceleration of the…

An Acehnese woman collapsed when she was flogged in public on Monday in the city of Lhokseumawe, as she was one of the latest to be punished for…

Yanuar Nugroho – The Jokowi government appears to be on the verge of imposing a hard lockdown to curb a second wave of Covid-19 infections. But…

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The unmonitored illegal trade in porcupines across Indonesia has prompted calls from conservationists for stricter…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Novel Baswedan has endured many things in his 14 years as an investigator at Indonesia's anti-graft agency. They include…

Sigit S Nugroho and Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki – On 24 April 2021, Indonesian authorities declared that the Nanggala-402, a Navy submarine that went…

Antara, Jakarta – Jakarta's need for health workers continues to increase in line with the high number of Covid-19 cases in the capital city.…

Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Agustinus Beo Da Costa – Oxygen prices in Jakarta had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – While the majority of the Indonesian people are in favor of death penalty, their support for it declines as they learn…

Jakarta – Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has offered free vaccination against Covid-19 for its passengers on Wednesday in a move that would entice…

Jakarta – The rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia is proof of the weaknesses in the system to control the pandemic. There…

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Indonesian government as of Wednesday, June 30, has received 14 million Sinovac bulk vaccines to boost the…

Jakarta – Rescuers were searching for 11 people still missing after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Bali in rough seas,…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to impose stricter restrictions starting Saturday (July 3), as South-east Asia's most populous…

Jakarta – The University of Gajah Mada (UGM) Student Executive Council (BEM) has dubbed President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as the "(Most) New Order"…

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The government has submitted a proposal to impose a carbon tax starting next year, as part of the country's tax code reform…

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's Covid-19 surge is on the edge of a catastrophe as the more infectious Delta variant dominates transmission and…

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – A couple of needles in the arm may not be everyone's idea of an ideal getaway but Indonesia has…

Dean Baker – You might think so from reading this NYT article (…