Jakarta – Residents of South Tangerang, Banten, have largely adhered to health protocols put in place to curb COVID-19 transmission,…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have ruled that the cause of a recent death of a video editor for private TV station…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arnold Sianturi, Jakarta – Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, blasted…

Jonathan Mitchell – Two new training centres have opened in Timor-Leste to help locals gain trade skills, as the country remembers a…

James Massola, Karuni Rompies and Amilia Rosa – The Indonesian government has decided to scrap its daily coronavirus briefings, a move labelled "…

Amelia Wynne for Mailonline – An Indonesian prisoner has been left with gruesome injuries after being whipped for violating Sharia law.

The…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – North Sumatra University (USU) in Medan will suspend all activities for a week starting July 27 after…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by General Elections Commission (KPU)…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has come under fire after several organizations voiced their concerns over…

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The long battle to end discrimination against women in Indonesia seems to be getting longer and longer as politicians…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Television Journalists Association (IJTI) has announced that at least 96 journalists and electronic media workers have…

Jakarta – The government may deploy more troops in Papua if it deems the escalation necessary to maintain security, Home Minister Tito Karnavian…

Pacific Media Centre – When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country had managed to stamp out the coronavirus, it was met…

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police has ruled out a murder case in the death of Metro TV editor Yodi Prabowo, saying on Saturday he…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – The largest PCR testing lab in Papua has announced that it will stop accepting new samples for COVID-19 testing on July…

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The majority of business players, from large companies to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), are of…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's instruction for the military and the police to hunt down armed separatist rebels…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The unequal burden of child care and housework on women has prompted a domino effect leading to violence against…

Jakarta – The percentage of infected people to die from Covid-19 has been steadily declining in Indonesia, the National Covid-19 Task Force…

Jessica Washington, Depok, Indonesia – In the city of Depok, West Java, a group of children gather together outside an old building.

One of…

Moch Faisal Karim – Over the past 20 years, Indonesia has developed its role as a country that fights for human rights and democracy at the…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A recent survey of business players by Jakarta-based pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia awarded Finance Minister Sri…

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Jember Regional Legislative Council in East Java has voted to impeach, for the first time in the regency's 91…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has discussed strengthening cooperation in security and trade with Turkish…

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – National Mandate Party (PAN) senior member Amien Rais on Friday claimed that he had been fired from…

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The government's move to establish a new COVID-19 response team to handle the impact the pandemic has had on health and…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia confirmed 1,906 additional COVID-19 cases and 117 deaths on Thursday, bringing the nation's official total to…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has urged the government to reassess the Juvenile Justice System…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Indonesia has received a total of 200 ventilators for hospitalized COVID-19 patients through separate…

Jakarta – In an incident that highlights how the pandemic has heightened economic disparities, a woman in Jombang, East Java, has resorted to…

Aditya Budiman, Jakarta – The national commission for human rights (Komnas HAM) research commissioner, Sandrayati Moniaga, revealed that the…

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Chairperson of the Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI), Abdul Manan, encouraged mass media corporations to be open…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – More than 300 children in Indonesia, including newborn babies and those below the age of six, are believed to have died…

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – SOS Children's Villages Indonesia, a non-profit organization that provides families for orphans and abandoned…

Almost five months after Indonesia confirmed its first COVID-19 cases, the coronavirus has now completely spread throughout the…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS) says it is ready to place funds in banks that have liquidity…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – In the absence of a daily press briefing on the COVID-19 situation, the government is uploading the latest COVID-19 data…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – More than 50,000 Indonesians will worry less than the rest of us about COVID-19, because they have already contracted…

In response to widening criticism, Timor-Leste's Ministry of Justice has revised its proposed criminal defamation law to exempt criticisms of…

Solo – A recommendation by the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to back President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's eldest son Gibran…

Kade Newell – On June 25th, the Pew Research Centre released a report titled 'The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists'. The survey that…

The West Papua Liberation Army has defended its deadly attack on a mining company in which a New Zealander was killed.

Fifty-seven-year-old…

Wintang Warastri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) secretary, Anwar Abbas, urged people to refer to the council's past…

Jakarta – The shake-up of the government's Covid-19 task force was expected. The country has achieved little in its fight against the pandemic.…

By Dr Susanna Barnes, Teresa Hall, Dr Balthasar Kehi, Quintiliano Mok and Associate Professor Lisa Palmer, University of Melbourne.

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Jakarta – The South Sumatra Ombudsman has declared Ogan Ilir Regent Ilyas Panji Alam's dismissal of 109 medical workers from the Ogan Ilir…

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Collaborative efforts are key to reducing stunting in Indonesia, as the COVID-19 pandemic may worsen the already high…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 1,906 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, the second highest rise in a day, to take the country's…

Jakarta – A female district head known for her charity works and anti-mining stance was impeached by local councilors in East Java on Wednesday…

Ian Cunliffe – Anyone who is interested knows in their heart that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, on behalf of the government, bugged…