Jakarta – Moody's Investors Service, one of the major global credit rating agencies, has projected that the total earnings of Indonesian…
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July 31, 2020
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The National Police has brought Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra, a fugitive and graft convict who had been on the…
Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesians are among the most religious people in the world, a recently released survey from the Pew Research…
Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Millions of Muslims in Indonesia observed this year's Idul Adha (Day of Sacrifice) under the shadow of the COVID-19…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Plan International Indonesia Foundation (Plan Indonesia) has called on the government to improve its multi-stakeholder…
Arya Dipa and Suherdjoko, Bandung – Authorities have put the West Java gubernatorial office, Gedung Sate, in Bandung as well as Diponegoro…
July 30, 2020
Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Jakarta has extended its transitional period from large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for another two weeks starting…
James Massola and Karuni Rompies – At least 70 doctors and 50 nurses have died from coronavirus in Indonesia, with hundreds more contracting the…
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has urged people to "come out of their homes" to boost the economy, warning that there…
Jakarta – Kalimantan Islamic University (Uniska) political observer Muhammad Uhaib As'ad says that the democratic process in Indonesia post…
Jakarta – The head of a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Serang regency, Banten, identified as JM, 52, has been arrested for allegedly…
Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Fifteen Indonesians have amassed fortunes surpassing US$1 billion, with the Hartono brothers remaining the country's…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – A new regulation signed by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has created a new position of undersecretary…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Pharmaceutical companies have seen declines of between 50 to 60 percent in demand for drugs during the COVID-…
Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic has dampened the economic bounce normally spurred by the sale and slaughter of livestock for Idul Adha (Day of…
Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is amassing a significant amount of money from city residents who seem not to care about…
Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Experts and a business player association are urging the newly established COVID-19 response team to re-evaluate the…
Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity giant PLN continues to see its profit eroded by foreign exchange losses, according to the…
Jakarta – The Tulangbawang Police in Lampung have arrested a married couple, identified as SU and SF, at their rented house in Warga Makmur Jaya…
Fana Suparman & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court has turned down a case review request submitted by fugitive Djoko…
Jakarta – The government seems to have lost its way in dealing with the pandemic. The effectiveness of the Covid-19 response and national…
Antara, Jakarta – The Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Mosque Council (DMI) said there are 3,930 mosques and around 6,000 prayer…
Jakarta – The human rights group Amnesty International urged Indonesia on Thursday to abolish caning after two women were struck about 100 times…
Yudha Baskoro & Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Sacrificial animal traders are seeing a drop in sales ahead of the pandemic-ridden Eid al-Adha…
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The total death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia exceeded 5,000 on Thursday as daily deaths have been…
July 29, 2020
Indonesia's COVID-19 task force has identified clusters of the disease in religious facilities in the capital, highlighting the need for better…
Jakarta – Dozens of cities and regencies in the country have violated regulations on reopening schools by neglecting the requisite health…
Mada Sukmajati – Early this year, Indonesia was planning elections for regional heads in nine provinces, 224 districts and 37 municipalities on…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government has guaranteed working capital loans worth Rp 100 trillion (US$6.92 billion) for labor-intensive…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Evi Mariani and Dwi Atmanta, Jakarta – Top officials in the Catholic Church have said that they are coming up with a protocol…
Jakarta – A lack of awareness in implementing health protocols has led to high COVID-19 transmission among employees in government offices,…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – With Indonesia's low worker productivity standing as a barrier to investment, some businesspeople are…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government will raise its 2021 state budget deficit assumption to 5.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – To contain the spread of COVID-19, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has called on all Muslims nationwide to…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – There will be no ban on mudik (exodus) during Idul Adha (Day of Sacrifice) this year despite the ongoing…
Yustinus Paat & Antara, Jakarta – All five municipalities in Jakarta have been considered as "red zone", the terms for an area where…
Antara, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) building was closed for five days starting today, July 29 until August 2,…
Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's decision to bring in hundreds of Chinese workers for multi-billion dollar nickel and stainless steel projects…
Jakarta – The COVID-19 task force has called on workplaces to implement work-from-home (WFH) policies, following reports of increasing numbers of…
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Daily new cases in Indonesia soared by 2,381 on Wednesday to take the country's total to 104,432, as Jakarta reported…
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – The recent birth of a Sumatran tiger, a critically endangered species native to Indonesia, at the Wroclaw Zoo in…
Jakarta – Jakarta reported 584 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, its highest one-day spike since the first confirmed cases were detected…
July 28, 2020
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – As Indonesia works on restoring its economy, concerns mount over dozens of infection clusters emerging from commercial…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The majority of Indonesians want the government to reopen schools and colleges, a recent poll by Cyrus Network has…
Norman Harsono, Jakarta – United States-based nuclear company Thorcon International Pte Ltd and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a deal on Jul…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Evi Mariani and Dwi Atmanta, Jakarta – Twenty-seven years ago, an 11-year-old girl knelt beside a priest in a mandatory…
Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Corruption has become one of the risks to the President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo administration's push to develop Indonesia…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The recent closure of a tomb built by Sunda Wiwitan, an indigenous faith group in West Java, is a violation of human…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The prolonged violence and inequality in Indonesia's easternmost provinces are taking a particularly hard…
Jakarta – Amid concerns over Indonesia's ever-growing tally of confirmed coronavirus cases, several regional heads across the archipelago have…




