Antara, Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – A police office in Ciracas, East Jakarta came under attack by more than 100 people early on Saturday and…
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August 28, 2020
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is extending the transitional period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has urged the public not to accuse the government of being behind…
Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned cement producer PT Semen Indonesia expects domestic cement demand to contract by 13 to 15 percent this year.…
Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Multiple stakeholders have agreed that collaboration to provide reliable vocational training to produce a skilled…
Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has denied that the emergence of new COVID-19 clusters at schools is a…
Jakarta – The Bogor administration in West Java plans to provide free WiFi across the city to support students and teachers practicing long-…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Health authorities confirmed 3,003 new COVID-19 cases in Indonesia on Friday, bringing the official nationwide count to…
Mardika Parama, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially inaugurated Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) in Kulon Progo regency on…
Budi Irawanto – The short film Tilik (Ladies on Top), directed by young filmmaker Wahyu Agung Prasetya, has become a social media sensation in…
James Massola and Karuni Rompies – Indonesia has reported 3,003 coronavirus infections, a single-day record for Australia's near-neighbour.
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Ahmad Faiz, Jakarta – Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) executive director Damar Juniarto on Thursday's virtual discussion…
Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Epidemiologist at the University of Indonesia, Syahrizal Syarif, reminded the Jakarta government to seriously mitigate the…
Agustinus Beo Da Cost, Jakarta – Workers at Indonesia's Grasberg gold and copper mine on Friday ended a protest demanding an easing of a…
Given that we're still in the middle of a pandemic, you must always obey health protocols – even when it's your big day.
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Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) is concerned that revisions to the Constitutional Court Law (UU MK) are being used as…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government has spent Rp 183.5 trillion (US$12.6 billion), 26.4 percent, of the total budget for the COVID-…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government will start to disburse Rp 2.4 million (US$163) in cash aid for workers starting on Thursday as part…
August 27, 2020
Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday, August 27, 2020, has officially launched the employee's wage subsidy program…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Central Kalimantan Police reportedly arrested the customary leader of the Laman Kinipan community, Effendi Buhing…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the prevalent issues of competitiveness that have been battering the…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry will provide Rp 7.2 trillion (US$532 million) in social assistance in the…
Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – Riau Islands Governor Isdianto has thrown his support behind residents of Natuna who are seeking to have the regency…
Jakarta – Two factories in Karawang, West Java, have been locked down for 14 days by the local administration in response to a report that dozens…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Nine employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), one detainee and four other people at its…
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – Several top food and beverages companies have established a new organization to ramp up their recycling efforts and…
Jakarta – Ninety-three students of the Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi Islamic Boarding School in East Java have tested positive of…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government is seeking to improve its tax arrears accounting system after the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK)…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Jakarta Post has won the 2020 Public Service Journalism Award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – As universities have imposed stricter rules in regard to certain forms of expression, activists have voiced their…
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – The recent discovery of a COVID-19 cluster in the Agriculture Ministry has added to a growing list of such office…
Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Giring Ganesha, the acting chairman of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), who recently declared his intention to run…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's recovery from the economic effects of the pandemic must focus on the sectors where the greatest…
Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta provincial administration allowed live music performance in restaurants and cafes through the issuance of…
Antara, Jakarta – Covid-19 infection clusters in companies have spread in Bekasi Regency, West Java. There are at least 30 firms reported positive…
Keerti Gedela, Evi Sukmaningrum and Irwanto – The nation with the world's fourth-largest population, Indonesia, has become a target of criticism…
Bisnis, Jakarta – Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Wishnutama Kusubandio said the reopening of movie theaters in a number of regions declared…
Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The Indonesian Fiber and Filament Producers Association (APSyFI) said that the number of workers in the…
Rebecca Ratcliffe – Infecting mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria dramatically reduces their ability to transmit dengue, according to a…
New York – The International Committee of the Red Cross acknowledged "the real and growing threat" posed by cyber attacks against civilian…
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Pollution from nearby coal-fired power plants is choking the citizens of Jakarta, slashing years off their life…
New York – Indonesia, the current president of the UN Security Council, organized an informal meeting on Wednesday to address growing threat on…
Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – Non-governmental organization Greenpeace Indonesia and Indonesian Labor Union (SBMI) held a protest at Aspiration Park in…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Health Ministry confirmed 2,719 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, another new one-day high. The new cases bring the…
Jakarta – The cycle of graft surrounding Bank Bali corruption convict Djoko Tjandra continues to spin with the Attorney General's Office (AGO)…
August 26, 2020
Health authorities in Batam, Riau Islands have located the woman who allegedly smeared her own face with the saliva of a deceased COVID-19 patient…
Achmad Nasrudin Yahya, Jakarta – The Cross-Factory Labour Federation (FBLP) has spoken out in response to a request by House of Representatives (…
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The daily rise of coronavirus cases in Jakarta reached a new high on Wednesday, the third time this month the capital…
Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has announced that it will allow candidates to use personal protective equipment (PPE) and hand…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Videos apparently showing four Indonesian crew members begging to be rescued from abuse aboard a Chinese fishing…




