Jakarta – The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has seen a 50 percent decrease in its blood supply amid rising demand and fewer blood donations due to…
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September 23, 2020
Helena Kobagau and Haeril Halim, Timika – With the coronavirus devastating jobs across the country, desperate Indonesians are flocking to illegal…
September 22, 2020
Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The government is facing mounting pressure to postpone the regional elections this December…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The State Palace has maintained that Indonesia will hold the 2020 regional elections on Dec. 9, amid mounting…
Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Four more victims and witnesses have come forward and made a report after the Depok Police in West Java reopened…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The Home Ministry and election organizers have agreed to revise a General Elections Commission (KPU) regulation (PKPU) to…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Floods have inundated several parts of Jakarta due to heavy rainfall that occurred in the capital and its…
Arya Dipa and Tri Indah Oktavianti, Bandung – A flash flood on Monday has left at least two people dead, 20 others injured and hundreds more…
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Entrepreneur and former Jakarta deputy governor Sandiaga Uno has joined the campaign team for President Joko "Jokowi"…
Jakarta – Presiding judge Johanis Hehamony said Hanny was found guilty of violating Article 82 of the Child Protection Law.
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Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's state budget deficit swelled in August on the back of falling state revenue collection and increased…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The National COVID-19 task force has urged the election organizers to prohibit direct campaign rallies in the upcoming…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Former Riau governor and graft convict Annas Maamun has been discharged from the Sukamiskin penitentiary in…
Jakarta – In a strange turn of events, the Indonesian Air Force has said the rumbling noises that rattled Jakarta over the weekend originated from…
Jakarta – Azyumardi Azra, a prominent Muslim scholar and a professor at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN Jakarta), has publicly…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The Trade Ministry launched "Indonesia Coffee Week" on Monday to promote the nation's beans and boost exports,…
James Balowski – Papuan activists have raised more than $70,000 to repay a government-sponsored scholarship received by exiled activist and human…
Yanuarius Weya, Jayapura – A pastor has been shot dead at the weekend allegedly by the Indonesian military, sparking protests by church groups and…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded an unprecedented daily increase in the COVID-19 death toll on Tuesday with 160 fatalities…
Randy Mulyanto – Since Indonesia's capital Jakarta reimposed social-distancing restrictions last Monday, motorcycle ride-hailing driver Yosef has…
Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Popular news outlet Liputan6.com filed a report of alleged intimidation, in the form of doxing, against one of its…
Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Tourism businesspeople in Yogyakarta have demanded that the government establish clear and consistent regulations…
Jakarta – The police in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, have named a local police officer a suspect for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl who had…
Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi inaugurated the reactivated Cianjur-Cipatat railroad network in West Java on…
Benny Mawel and Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta and Jayapura – The recent killing of pastor Yeremia Zanambani in Intan Jaya regency, Papua, allegedly…
Jakarta – Health authorities in Central Java have forced two women to self-isolate after they had planned to visit shopping centers despite having…
Petrus Farneubun, Johni Korwa – The historical roots of special autonomy in Papua can be traced back to two major events. The first was a meeting…
Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Deputy Chairman Erwin Aksa expected a breakthrough represented by the…
Antara, Jakarta – The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) recorded 2,059 natural disasters that struck Indonesia during the…
Dwi Argo Santosa, Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Nurses, or PPNI, claimed on Tuesday nearly 3,000 members have been infected by…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – A recent survey by the Health Ministry has found that many citizens do not believe that COVID-19 exists and that many…
September 21, 2020
Jakarta – Indonesia has suspended exports from an Indonesian seafood company Putri Indah into China after its frozen fish products tested positive…
Jakarta – The Tabernacle Bible Church of Indonesia (GKII) suspects that Reverend Yeremia Zanambani from the Intan Jaya regency in Papua was shot…
Jakarta – A soldier and a Christian pastor have been shot dead in separate incidents at the weekend in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua,…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The government is set to draft a regulation to restrict mass gatherings during the upcoming regional elections in an…
Angela Flassy, Jayapura – Eleven defendants charged with treason following a rally turned violent in Sorong last year sentenced to 10 months'…
An Indonesian church group has urged President Joko Widodo to order an independent investigation into the killing of a priest in the rebellious…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has said that the country's economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will depend on…
Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Fachrul Razi has tested positive for COVID-19, an expert staff member to the minister…
Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Consumers are looking for affordability when purchasing cigarettes as the increase in the tobacco excise and the…
Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has criticized the Supreme Court's recent record of granting judicial reviews of graft cases…
Arya Dipa, Bandung – The West Java administration has asked the central government for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to increase the…
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The government has increased the deployment of police and military personnel to improve compliance with health…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has started to deliberate the controversial family resilience bill as lawmakers behind the…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to order a thorough investigation into the recent…
Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, have urged the government to…
Adi Warsono (Contributor), Bekasi – As many as 369 employees of the Epson factory in the Ejib industrial area, South Cikarang, Bekasi Regency were…
Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Jakarta Transportation Agency recorded more than one thousand violations committed by online motorcycle taxi or…
Antara, Jakarta – The Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Board (PBNU) has called on the General Election Commission (KPU), the Government and the…
A Chinese drug trafficker facing a death sentence has escaped from jail on the outskirts of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, by tunnelling through…




