Diana Mariska, Jakarta – A government official revealed on Monday that the project to move the Indonesian capital from Jakarta to North Penajam…
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April 7, 2020
Mei Amelia R – A transgender woman named Mira has been burnt alive by a group of people in the Cilincing area of North Jakarta. The Sandya…
April 6, 2020
Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Economists are warning against roadblocks that will endanger the supply of staple food and push up prices as the…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government's decision to avoid imposing regional quarantine measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council declared Ahmad Riza Patria of the Gerindra Party as the Jakarta deputy governor-elect in a…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The number of workers that have been laid off and forced to take unpaid leave has reached 162,416 in the capital…
Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy is expected to grow by only 2.5 percent this year, from a four-year low of 5.02 percent in…
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A 42-year-old farmer was mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger in the encroached forest area of Mount Leuser National Park…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) has called on the government to increase healthcare capacities in regions outside Jakarta.…
Made Anthony Iswara and Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's loan growth fell to a more than 10-year low in February as a cooling economy due to…
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has accused the central government of stonewalling his efforts to contain the spread…
Carlos Ky Paath, Carlos Roy Fajarta, Ari Supriyanti Rikin, Jakarta – The government is now telling Indonesians to wear some type of nose and…
Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Agus Wibowo says that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases the…
Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – As part of the aggressive effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the capital city, the Jakarta administration has…
Riza Rodilla Mufti, Jakarta – Indonesia's tourism sector, the industry hardest-hit by COVID-19, is projected to take a long time to recover,…
Budi Sutrisno and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed his opposition to a plan to release graft…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The National Police have decided to step up social media monitoring to conduct sweeping against what they deem to be…
Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Muhammad Syarifuddin has been elected as the new Supreme Court chief justice, replacing Muhammad Hatta Ali who…
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Only 36 in every million people are being tested for the coronavirus in Indonesia, making it the fourth worst in…
In the throes of the current Covid-19 crisis, world leaders are juggling a range of complex issues concerning the balance between public health…
Newly released statistics on unemployment in Jakarta has come to reflect the huge economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had in the…
Hotman Siregar, Yusitnus Paat, Jakarta – Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, politician Riza Patria won an overwhelming majority of the…
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – State revenue is expected to nosedive this year as the government rolls out tax incentives, including corporate…
Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Two of Indonesia's largest mass Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, have advised people against…
Riska Rahman, Jakarta – International rating agencies are questioning Indonesian companies' ability to repay their debts and have consequently…
Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – The government is facing scrutiny over its plan to grant inmates early release as part of its efforts to prevent the…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The long-winded search for a figure to fill the Jakarta deputy governor position came to an end on Monday after city…
Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesian manufacturing output fell off a cliff in March as the government imposed stricter measures to contain…
Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's death toll from the novel coronavirus disease topped 200 on Monday, with the government voicing…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Grocery shoppers will no longer need to push a shopping cart around a supermarket during the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The government's COVID-19 fast response team has asked the Health Ministry to call on dentists and otolaryngologists to…
Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police Headquarters (Mabes Polri) has officially issued a telegram containing law-…
M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – The Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy Agency reported on Sunday that 162,416 workers from a…
M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The National Police announced that it has acted upon three thousand people in East Java who violated the…
Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Doni Monardo, the Chief of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 Task Force, announced today, April 6, that people…
Basten Gokkon – Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia's Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown to minimize the spread…
April 5, 2020
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie and Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – At least 18 doctors across Indonesia have died in the fight against COVID-19, the…
Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Some 50,000 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) COVID-19 test kits from South Korea are expected to arrive at…
Antara, Muara Teweh – A flash flood swamped hundreds of houses in six villages in East Teweh Sub-district,, North Barito District,…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration's sluggish delivery of crucial social assistance funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak is…
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has heavily criticized the Health Ministry's newly issued guidelines on large-scale…
Yulia Savitri, Lahat, South Sumatra – Years of conflict between residents of Pagar Batu village and oil palm plantation company PT Artha Prigel…
Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – After days of pressure from civil society organizations over a lack of accountability, the Corruption…
Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – When a 34-year-old doctor with COVID-19 passed away in Indonesia about two weeks ago, many were taken by surprise that a…
Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – On April 1, Rajiman Sormin officially retired after 12 years as a mortician at Adam Malik Public Hospital in…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council is pressing ahead with its plan to select Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's deputy governor on…
Ganug Nugroho Adi, Wonogiri – As COVID-19 continues to spread across Indonesia, some residents of Wonogiri, Central Java, have resorted to…
Dian Septiari, Jakarta – As the world scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in…
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government announced on Sunday there had been 181 confirmed Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours to…
Markus Makur, East Manggari – Christians in East Nusa Tenggara celebrated Palm Sunday in their own homes following the government's instructions…




