Putu Indah S, Nabil Ihsan, Jakarta – None of customary villages in Indonesia has officially been recognized by the central government as of August this year despite assurances of such r

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Health Ministry disclosed that the limited number of health workers who are tasked to input Covid-19 data resulted in the accumulation of non-real-time data,

Endri Kurniawati, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia, Pandu Riono, said the implementation of the odd-even policy for four-wheeled vehicles in Jakarta has no rele

Anwar Siswadi (Contributor), Jakarta – Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) maritime expert, Hamzah Latief, said in an online seminar held on August 10, 2021, that 30 percent of Indone

Maria Fatima Bona, Vento Saudale, Jakarta – Shortage in global vaccine supplies has slowed Indonesia's attempts to ramp up vaccination against Covid-19 but somehow the country managed t

An incident involving a Nigerian diplomat and immigration officers in Indonesia is triggering unease in relations between the two nations.

Jakarta – The head of the Indonesian Association of Epidemiology Experts (PAEI) professional development division, Masdalina Pane, is questioning the indicators being used by the govern

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have deported more than 100 Timor-Leste citizens who defied Covid-19 restrictions and illegally crossed the border to participate in a marti

Kuala Lumpur (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indonesia should make permanent its temporary ban on new permits for oil palm plantations to advance progress on tackling deforestation and m

Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih and Vedi Hadiz – Since the turn of the millennium, a variety of Indonesian films featuring Islamic characters grappling with moral issues have emerged.

A founding member of the Free West Papua Movement, Tan Sen Thay, has died in the Netherlands.

Christopher Knaus – Australia's 2004 spy mission targeting Timor-Leste during oil and gas negotiations was "neither legal nor initiated properly" and former prime minister John Howard i

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Governor Anies Baswedan allows malls, worship places and outdoor sport venues to reopen with certain capacity limits on the basis of a steady decline in newly C

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – UNESCO has urged the Indonesian government to close a stretch of road that runs through the largest protected area in Southeast Asia, citing its negative e

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Indonesia's independent data initiative, LaporCovid-19, found that over 19,000 Covid deaths reported by the district/city governments are not registered in the ce

Refugees and asylum seekers must get their COVID-19 jabs for the greater good, argued Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, who has written a letter to the Health Ministry urging for their v

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – An epidemiologist from the Griffith University Dicky Budiman on Tuesday spoke about his fears of Covid-19 undetected cases, despite commending the government's de

Police in North Jakarta have arrested a vaccinator who was caught on video injecting a boy with an empty syringe that should have contained the COVID-19 vaccine.

Dili (Reuters) – Timor Leste has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, raising concerns by its health ministry abo

Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has decided to extend Covid-19 social restrictions across Java and Bali islands until Aug.

Antara, Jakarta – The Jakarta Provincial Government has raised the Covid-19 vaccination target to 11 million people from the previous 8.8 million.

Emma Connors and Andrew Tillett, Singapore/Canberra – A plan to transport Australians keen to leave Indonesia by sea has run aground due to crew quarantine requirements and other costs,

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – Director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara responded to the government's policy on the opening of shoppi

Novy Lumanauw, Triyan Pangastuti, Jakarta – Indonesia has launched a risk-based online single submission system for business licensing on Monday, a long-delayed milestone that the gover

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong – Picking out the fluty whistle of a Sulawesi babbler (Pellorneum celebense) is easy.

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The Indonesian anti-corruption community (MAKI) and the Law Enforcement Monitoring Institute (LP3HI) filed a lawsuit against House of Representatives (DPR) Spea

Jakarta – The government has extended its COVID-19 curbs on Java and Bali until Aug.

Maria Fatima Bona, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 2,048 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, the second time that the daily death toll has topped the 2,000 mark since t

Jayapura – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) is urging the Papua regional police and the Papua chief public prosecutor to immediately release Papuan activist Victor F Yeimo becau

The long-awaited Formula E race in Jakarta, which had been delayed due to COVID-19, is among the city's priority programs for next year, an official document shows.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded the lowest number of newly Covid-19 cases since June 30 as the extended lockdown across Java and Bali entered the final day on Monday.

Police in Bogor, West Java have launched an investigation into allegations that lenders forcibly took a woman's grandkids as collateral after her debt for medical bills mounted.

Hellena Souisa – After catching the coronavirus, Jenny Mikha was faced with a choice: go out on the streets to find food, and infect more people, or starve.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – The mayor of the Indonesian city of Bogor has issued and presented a building permit to a Protestant church in a bid to end a 15-year legal dispute that began wh

Gayatri Suroyo Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia launched on Monday a website to process investment permits, which the government hailed as an important milestone in reforms aimed at making

Ian Lloyd Neubauer, Jakarta – With undeniably dreamy backdrops and colorful local culture, the Indonesian island of Bali has lured foreign filmmakers for nearly as long as there has bee

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – It was the evening after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on July 20 when Hambal M Zain began to run a fever.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's capital Jakarta is set to ease Covid-19 curbs from Tuesday (Aug 10), allowing shopping malls and restaurants in the city to reopen with limi

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno said the government was still revising the environmental impact analysis (Amdal) documents of the Integr

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans stricter measures to limit public mobility and gathering during the raging Covid-19 outbreak by requiring its citizens to show

Jayapura – Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman has spoken out about the worsening health of Papua activist Victor F Yeimo who has being detained at the Mobile Brigade comman

Bisnis, Jakarta – Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia booked an income of US$353.07 million or around Rp5.1 trillion (with an assumed exchange rate of Rp14,353 per US dollar).

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Health Ministry revealed that the hospital bed occupancy rate (BOR) for Covid-19 patients in Java and Bali continued to improve.

Carlos Ky Paath, Jakarta – The Indonesian government offers opportunities for athletes who won medals in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to become civil servants.

Syailendra Persada, Jakarta – The head of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP)'s general election campaign team, Bambang Wuryanto, has denied allegations that the installa

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin lifted the rule on the implementation of the Gotong Royong Covid-19 vaccine program for individuals.

uAchmad Nasrudin Yahya, Jakarta – Based on the results of a survey by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI), the issue of corruption is of most concern to the public among the string of

Achmad Nasrudin Yahya, Jakarta – The results of a survey by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) show that the majority or around 60 percent of respondents believe that corruption in I

Anne Barker and Lucia Stein – Experts fear Indonesia, considered one of the world's COVID-19 epicentres, is now a high-risk "hotspot" for the emergence of a new coronavirus "super strai

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Eight-year-old Alviano Dava Raharjo knew that his parents had been admitted to hospital in West Kutai, East Kalimantan, but he was puzzled why they had not com