Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has sacked members who have refused to support the nomination…
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Jakarta – With 15 of 18 districts in Yogyakarta's Gunungkidul regency hit by drought, authorities estimate that more than 120,000…
Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) Commission B Speaker, Abdul Aziz, argues that Governor Anies Baswedan should already…
Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Task Force for COVID-19 Response has revealed that the country has recorded a 32.9-percent increase in weekly…
Ihsanuddin, Jakarta – Covid-19 Task Force spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito has conceded that the positivity rate in Indonesia has continued to rise…
Ardila Syakriah and Sausan Atika, Jakarta – COVID-19 patients are crowding hospitals as bone-tired medical workers continue to bear the brunt of…
Christopher Knaus – The former Timor-Leste president Jose Ramos-Horta has urged Australia to show wisdom, honesty and compassion by stopping the…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – For the first time in Indonesia, a court has sentenced an illegal miner to multiple crimes in an attempt to create a…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Experts have expressed skepticism about whether the curfews imposed in Bogor and Depok in West Java will be…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The rupiah exchange rate fell significantly on Wednesday as investors worry about the independence of Bank Indonesia…
Jakarta – The House of Representatives plans to conclude deliberations on the personal data protection bill in November, a delay from its initial…
September 1, 2020
Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN has called on the Environment and Forestry Ministry to revise emission caps for…
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Sumatra Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) has evacuated a female Sumatran tiger from Tapus…
Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's farming ministry has ordered breeders to cull millions of chickens and reduce the number of hatching eggs to…
Jakarta has set course to continue "transitioning" away from its lockdown measures despite alarming caseload spikes in recent weeks.
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Jakarta – The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry has said female civil servants are prohibited from practicing polyandry – taking…
With domestic tourism slowly taking off and domestic flights are once again in demand, policy makers say they have reason to worry that some…
Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry's State Assets Directorate General (DJKN) has said it will accelerate the disbursement of Rp 20…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – House of Representatives Commission III, which oversees legal affairs, has finished the deliberations for a revision of…
Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry and the Public Works and Housing Ministry, in charge of infrastructure projects, have spent…
Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Tommy Ardiansyah, Tangerang, Indonesia – For the residents along Indonesia's Cisadane River, the coronavirus has brought…
Harry Suhartono and Fathiya Dahrul – Indonesia's second-largest lender by assets says the nation's companies are set to demand more loans, as they…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Puan Maharani claimed on Tuesday that lawmakers maintained transparency when…
Wilmar Salim, Bandung – Indonesia saw 5.32 percent economic contraction year-on-year (yoy) during the second quarter due to the impact of COVID-19…
Jakarta – For the umpteenth time since the two institutions broke up as part of sweeping reforms introduced to protect hard-won democracy 20 years…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The State Palace has defended the use of social media influencers to promote public policies, claiming the…
Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia has called for a thorough investigation into the recent death of 21-year-old George Karel…
Jakarta – Despite recent reports of overwhelmed COVID-19 hospitals in several regions, the Health Ministry has claimed that the nationwide…
Jakarta – The South Tangerang administration announced that a new COVID-19 cluster has emerged after a number of staff members and teachers in one…
Private television stations RCTI and iNews TV have recently come under fire for submitting a petition to the Constitutional Court calling for a…
Jakarta – North Jayapura Community Health Center (Puskesmas) in Jayapura, Papua, has reopened its doors to provide medical services for the public…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded the lowest inflation in two decades in August as consumer prices fell due to weakening purchasing…
Jakarta – A female junior high school student in West Tanjung Jabung, Jambi, was allegedly locked up and raped multiple times by her own tutor…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy faces a "near-certain recession" in the third quarter this year, economists say, as a robust…
Indonesia aims to begin producing its locally developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate by the middle of 2021, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said…
Jakarta – Deskiel Haning of the Rote Ndao Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said the five villages were Holulai, Nentenaen, Meoain,…
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of coronavirus cases continued to surge in Indonesia on Tuesday after the country saw the highest single-…
Yudha Baskoro, Banten – The Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) is developing a detection kit for coronavirus it claims has the accuracy level…
Jakarta – The acting director general for health services at the Health Ministry, Abdul Kadir, says that Indonesia no longer needs large scale…
The House of Representatives passed a revision of the Constitutional Court Law on Tuesday amid criticism from activists and experts over a…
Depok municipality in West Java will impose a curfew to restrict people's movements in the city after health authorities confirmed a significant…
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo claimed on Tuesday that COVID-19 mitigation in Indonesia has remained relatively "under control" compared to…
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named prosecutor Pinangki Sirna Malasari a suspect of money laundering and bribery after she allegedly…
Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The government's plan to fund schoolchildren's access to the internet in support of online-based learning has…
Almost one third of Indonesian parents and caregivers are doubtful about taking their children for routine immunizations during the COVID-19…
Susan Price – August marked one year since the racist attacks on West Papuan students in Surabaya that sparked a new West Papuan uprising. More…
Antara, Jakarta – The North Sumatra expert team member, Dr. Delyuzar said that the number of people exposed to COVID-19 in Indonesia continues to…
Triyan Pangastuti, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has kicked off deliberation of a bill that would expand the mandate of Bank Indonesia,…
Primus Dorimulu, Bogor – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gave a new timeline for the planned mass vaccination against coronavirus, saying on Monday…
Heru Andriyanto, Bogor – Indonesia has a month left to turn things around after experiencing a 5.32 percent contraction in its economy in the…




