Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – MRT Jakarta resumes normal operation starting Friday as the city administration has announced the start of…
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June 5, 2020
Aceh Besar (AFP) – Two Indonesians caught having pre-marital sex were flogged a hundred times each on Friday (June 5) in conservative Aceh…
Jakarta – A farmer from the Sakai tribe in Bengkalis has been jailed for cutting down trees on land owned by a company. This is an offense…
Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Multiple mysterious phone calls have terrorized an Amnesty International discussion touching on rights violations in…
Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian held Friday a virtual coordination meeting with regional heads on the nation…
Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – Garuda Indonesia president-director Irfan Setiaputra suggested the government to help lower the…
Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Indonesia's second-largest Muslim group, Muhammadiyah, said on Thursday that its members and Muslims in general may…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Jakarta, the first epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in Indonesia, is claiming a reduction in the rate of infections and…
June 4, 2020
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – After around two months of coronavirus restrictions in four provinces and 26 cities, the government is…
Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has increased the COVID-19 testing target to 20,000 samples per day as new cases…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has decided to extend the period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to the end of…
Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has expressed disapproval over a decision by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK…
Riska Rahman and Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Several ailing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are still in the dark over how to raise funds to…
Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The Indonesian banking industry will face tougher challenges throughout the rest of the year following the sector's…
Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The nation's airlines will have to brace for a lengthy recovery period of more than a year, as public perception of air…
Jakarta – The number of criminal cases in Indonesia in the 22nd week of this year, or the last week of May, soared by 16.6 percent compared to…
Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – People are becoming increasingly cautious about spending as they prepare for the possibility that the pandemic will…
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 684 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday in a worrying start into the month, as…
Ade Mardiyati – When Indonesian artist and manager Sulung Landung went to Bali in January, he met up with a long-time friend, well-known tarot…
Mark Tan, Clarice Chiam and Donavan Lim, Singapore – Southeast Asia's largest buyer of gasoline, Indonesia, has taken another step toward…
Jakarta – Two civilians were shot to death by unknown assailants in Poso regency, Central Sulawesi on Tuesday.
National Police spokesperson…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Independent researcher Ravio Patra has filed a pretrial motion against the Jakarta Police for the latter's move to…
Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The government is devising plans to ensure food security in the country after the coronavirus pandemic has passed, as the…
Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Manpower Ministry says a total of 1.7 million workers have either lost their jobs or been furloughed by their…
Carlos K.Y. Paath, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday ordered the National Covid-19 Task Force to pay closer…
The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) ruled the government internet ban in Papua and West Papua during the anti-racism protests in August…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – A recent survey by the International Labor Organization (ILO) has revealed that the majority of small and medium…
Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Pandjaitan assured that future foreign…
Caesar Akbar, Friski Riana, Jakarta – After the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) found the president and the Communication and…
Jakarta – The government and the DPR are continuing to deliberate problematic laws. This is immoral at a time of the pandemic.
The…
Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government's decision to prepare hundreds of thousands of Indonesian Military (TNI) officers for deployment…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government unveiled on Wednesday a bigger stimulus package worth Rp 677.2 trillion (US$47.6 billion) to anchor…
Eisya A. Eloskari, Jakarta – The fintech industry might be struggling with risky loans as lenders in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms turned…
Loro Horta – On March 21, 2020 Timor Leste reported its first case of COVID-19, a Dutch national arriving from Europe. Many expected the small…
Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucracy Reforms Minister Tjahjo Kumolo said all government institutions will devise new systems…
Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Students nationwide have written an open letter to urge Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim to reduce the…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a…
Jakarta – A 31-year-old woman in Tandun district, Rokan Hulu regency, Riau was sentenced to seven days in jail and a two-month probation period…
Elvira Rumkabu, Jayapura – The death of George Floyd, an African-American who was brutally murdered by a policeman in an American city, is not an…
June 3, 2020
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil…
Rui Feijo – Francisco Guterres Lu Olo seems to have won the long tug of war that began soon after he was elected in May 2017, involving directly…
TAPOL condemns the demand by Prosecutors seeking seventeen and five years imprisonment for West Papuan activists Buchtar Tabuni and Irwanus…
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Hardly ever mentioned alongside other front-line health workers like doctors and nurses, laboratory workers in…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Jakarta's satellite cities in Banten – South Tangerang, Tangerang municipality and Tangerang regency –…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy may shrink 3.5 percent this year should the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) imposed by…
Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government's plan to gradually reopen places of worship has drawn mixed responses from religious groups and…
Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The government aims to complete the disbursement of the BLT Dana Desa (village funds unconditional cash transfers) to…
Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Experts and volunteers with the LaporCovid-19 (Report Covid-19) community movement have warned of a potentially…
Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is set to begin implementing "new normal" protocols this week. However, it remains unclear when nightclubs…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on Tuesday that the government was…




