Arya Dipa, Bandung – State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma is set to finish the production of 100,000 real-time polymerase chain…

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Jakarta, Indonesia's capital and its COVID-19 epicenter, needs greater popular effort and targeted local containment to…

James Massola and Amilia Rosa – Indonesia has recorded a huge jump in its daily coronavirus infections, with 973 new patients confirmed on…

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The National Research and Innovation Agency's (BRIN) COVID-19 research consortium launched nine new inventions to…

Anselmus Bata, Abdul Muslim, Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Indonesia's powerful business lobby, which includes some of the country's largest employers…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The government has asked the Constitutional Court to reject a petition for a judicial review of Regulation…

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has called on law enforcers to protect the rights of a teen…

The West Papua Liberation Army has stolen a number of weapons from an Indonesian police post.

A spokesman for the pro-…

Erin Cook – There's nothing like Idul Fitri in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country. Jakarta hums endlessly all year – except…

Eid is less than a week away. In Indonesia, that usually means up to 20 million people travel from crowded urban centres back to their home…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's current account deficit narrowed in the first quarter of this year as imports fell and the deficit in…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN's net profit nosedived last year as a result of higher tax expenses and operational…

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – National airlines are grappling with losses due to low passenger demand and social distancing restrictions, despite…

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The government needs to expand its definition of vulnerable groups during the coronavirus pandemic to be able to help…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – A music video featuring various state officials and regional heads encouraging citizens to stay at home ahead of…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the South Kalimantan Police to drop a defamation charge against a blogger who…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta has cracked down on thousands of individuals and companies for violating the capital's large-scale social…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Weakening purchasing power following business disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has battered the country's…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The government will tighten its monitoring of the Idul Fitri mudik (exodus) ban as the Islamic holiday, which falls on…

Benny Mawel and Alya Nurbaiti, Jayapura and Jakarta – A Papuan man has died shortly after allegedly being hit by a police officer while making a…

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – The COVID-19 outbreak, which has disrupted almost all business sectors in the country, has had a positive impact on…

Arya Dipa, Jakarta – The Industry Ministry has issued more than 5,800 operational permits to companies in West Java to keep operating amid the…

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – The Health Ministry reported another record number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as the government…

Jakarta – Entering the last week of Ramadan, shopping centers across the country are packed by shoppers getting ready to welcome the annual…

Apriadi Gunawan, Asip Hasani and Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta/Medan – As the country still struggles to flatten the COVID-19 transmission curve…

Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat – Southeast Asia's largest economy, Indonesia, has again shown it prioritises the economy over its people during the…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of a journalist held since 4 May in South Kalimantan province, in the far south…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has inaugurated Adm. Yudo Margono and Air Chief Marshal Fadjar Prasetyo as…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Political factions at the House of Representatives are divided over the title of the controversial omnibus bill on job…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry has suspended a flight operated by Batik Air on the Jakarta-Denpasar, Bali, route as the…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is calling on the government to reallocate its funding for the preemployment…

Antara, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat on Monday reminded the government to loosen its…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The COVID-19 crisis has exposed fundamental problems in the distribution of social assistance, particularly the…

Suherdjoko, Jakarta and Semarang – A total of 132,978 Indonesian citizens abroad – consisting of crew members, migrant workers and students – had…

Galih Gumelar and Marchio Irfan Giordano, Jakarta – After being criticized for undermining the rule of law in a series of COVID-19 pandemic…

Ramadani Saputra, Jakarta – The presence of agnostics and atheists is not often felt in conservative Indonesia, where society largely defines…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – The government is using research and surveys to explore ways to ease its large-scale social…

Gravedigger Junaidi Hakim shouts "hurry up" as he summons his weary colleagues in a never-ending race to bury novel coronavirus victims at a…

Harry Suhartono and Bruce Einhorn – In a country with one of the developing world's worst Covid-19 fatality rates, public health experts see a…

Sri Krishnamurthi – Australian war correspondent and investigative journalist John Martinkus warns the West Papuan conflict is "reigniting" and "…

Pacific Media Watch – Following yesterday's parliamentary row in the national chamber of Timor-Leste, chaotic scenes were streamed live on social…

Lia Timson – East-Timor's Prime Minister has asked the Timorese people to "maintain calm" and allow the country's leaders to restore order, after…

Habib Bahar bin Smith, a firebrand cleric who was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting minors in 2019, has been sent back to prison…

With Eid al-Fitr coming this Sunday, the Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) protocol currently in place in regions across the country seem…

James Balowski – Rights groups have slammed a last-minute decision to deny parole to five Papuans jailed on charges of treason over a peaceful…

Jakarta – Indonesians are less likely to use hand sanitizer compared to citizens of other Southeast Asian countries, according to a recent survey…

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The government's COVID-19 task force explained the reason why it changed the way it presented the data of its…

Imam Hamdi, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Chief of the Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP), Arifin, has admitted that numerous…

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Head of Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, reported that last week's number of new coronavirus (…