Arya Dipa and Tri Indah Oktavianti, Bandung and Jakarta – Jakarta's satellite areas of Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java have extended their…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government has defended its decision to raise Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) premiums…

Jakarta – A 20-year-old woman identified as AR was arrested and named a suspect on Wednesday after pulling a "prank" on the medical workers of…

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has fined the management of the McDonald's restaurant in the Sarinah shopping center…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Eight civil society organizations plan to mobilize grassroots support in challenging the controversial new Mining Law…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Volunteers for crowdsourced database KawalCovid-19 have renewed their calls for the government to release all of its…

Camellia Webb-Gannon, Jaime Swift, Michael Westaway and Nathan Wright – Indonesia has recently indicated it is considering investigating the…

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups has criticized law enforcement officials in Pekanbaru, Riau, for pursuing criminal…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – While the House of Representatives has claimed it focused on regulations related to the COVID-19 outbreak in the…

Antara, Jakarta – A researcher from the Research Center for Population of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Rusli Cahyadi, assessed…

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia (UI), assessed that Indonesia could not apply herd…

Hendartyo Hanggi, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has expressed his concerns over the inflating number…

Responding to the postponed release of five Papuan prisoners of conscience (PoC) in Jakarta, Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director,…

Pacific Media Centre – TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in…

A young woman in Bone regency, South Sulawesi was recently arrested after faking seizures and claiming that she was infected with the coronavirus…

James Massola and Karuni Rompies – Indonesia has recorded 689 new coronavirus cases, another single day record, as the country looks to be…

The mining company PT Freeport Indonesia has increased efforts to test for, and treat people with Covid-19, in Papua.

The number of…

Chaula Rininta Anindya and Sigit S. Nugroho – Following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster, President Joko Widodo ("…

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Once an English teacher, Afghan refugee Zakir Hussain has given up hope of having a bright future.

The 25-year-old…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – More than 100 convicts who were released early in an effort to prevent the further transmission of COVID-19…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The government plans to conduct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) "pool tests" in eight provinces that have been hardest…

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's advertisement spending dropped sharply in April as most big ad spenders reduced their marketing…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – State-owned energy and utility companies are taking measures to cut expenditure and diversify their businesses to…

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesian borrowers are selling a record amount of dollar bonds, as the country's strong fiscal track record in…

Jakarta – After admitting his role in a bribery case implicating former Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi, retired Indonesian shuttler…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The government plans to allocate an additional Rp 56.5 trillion (US$3.8 billion) to a number ministries and agencies in…

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Family members of victims of the Semanggi tragedies in the late 1990s filed on Tuesday a lawsuit against Attorney…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Stay home and make babies? As condoms and other forms of birth control are unavailable to a growing number of…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – As the country grapples with the COVID-19 crisis, lawmakers have approved a controversial revision of the 2009 Coal and…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has issued a decree that serves as the legal basis for sanctioning violators of the…

Riska Rahman and Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Experts are calling on the government to ensure transparency and tight supervision as it prepares…

Imam Budilaksono, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) faction in the House of Representatives (DPR), Jazuli…

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – COVID-19 is not the only threat Indonesia is currently facing – cyberattacks are also on the rise, as hackers to…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Nearly every region that has imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) has recorded a significant decrease in…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The mourning family of EP, an Indonesian crew member of a Chinese fishing vessel who died after receiving treatment in…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Syamsi Dhuha Foundation (SDF), a nonprofit organization representing autoimmune disease sufferers, has urged the…

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – E-commerce and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) players in several Asian countries, including Indonesia, believe…

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Egi Primayogha suspects that the practice of state highjacking or state capture has…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has passed a controversial bill that effectively gives miners bigger concessions and longer…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government is set to provide a Rp 25 trillion (US$1.68 billion) stimulus package that includes airfare and…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesians are "fairly satisfied" with their country's response to the coronavirus pandemic, yet they are the most "…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has proposed involving military forces to strengthen Indonesia's fight against terrorism…

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma has temporarily halted the distribution of Biozek rapid test kits…

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman said complaints about the government's social aid programs dominated hundreds of inquiries to…

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Palm Oil Association, or Gapki, has reported higher export of palm oil but lower domestic consumption of the…

London – TAPOL condemns the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for…

Reza Gunadha and Erick Tanjung – Six Papuan political prisoners in Jakarta, namely Surya Anta Ginting and his companions are to be released from…

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – Homegrown gaming companies are mostly thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic as people spend more time playing games…

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman and Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is mulling over a plan to start easing the COVID-19 social…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – The police have arrested two brothers in Bantaeng regency, South Sulawesi, and named them suspects…