Jakarta (Agencies) – Indonesia is expecting to receive 45 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in August, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a virtual news conference on Monday

Adi Kurniawan and Heru Asprihanto, Jakarta – Muhammad Ihsan gratefully lugs an oxygen cylinder into a small office in Jakarta's outskirts, lining the breathing equipment up with scores

Sudibyo Wiradji, Jakarta – Indonesia is scrambling to restore its sizeable mangrove forest loss, with the national Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM) tasked with accelerati

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta Government on Monday said the bed occupancy rates of COVID-19 isolation and ICU facilities at hospitals in Jakarta had shown signs of reduction

Antara, Jakarta – A number of restaurant owners have questioned the 20-minute dine-in time limit imposed in the public activity restrictions (PPKM) level 4, which is effective from July

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesian Ombudsman member Robert Na Endi Jaweng said his side found alleged manipulation of a meeting document on the discussion of regulations related to the

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Pope Francis hopes to visit Timor-Leste next year, according to a senior official at the Catholic-majority country's apostolic nunciature.

Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has issued three instructions on the Covid-19 curbs, as Indonesia extends its strict social restrictions.

Robert Campion – Despite a surge in death rates, amid an uncontrolled outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Indonesian government of President Joko Widodo is moving to loosen l

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – A number of private companies are joining forces to build a 500-bed isolation facility for Covid-19 patients in East Jakarta, expected to become operatio

Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing more intensive care units after logging several days of record-high Covid-19 deaths last week, while the country waits to see whether the government wil

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – The daily number of Covid-19 burials at Rorotan Public Cemetery in Cilincing, North Jakarta has dropped to below 100 in recent days.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A partial lockdown has been extended in Indonesia as plans are being finalised to ramp up contact tracing and reinforce quarantine facilities in the cou

Putu Savitri, Fadhli Ruhman, Jakarta – The Penal Code (KUHP) does not yet provide adequate protection to women victims of sexual violence, Commissioner of the National Commission on Wom

A'an Suryana, Singapore – The latest tragedy in Indonesia's fight against COVID-19 is the extraordinary rise of fatalities among Indonesian doctors.

Denpasar, Bali (Agencies) – Bali province is running out of oxygen for its COVID-19 patients as infections surge, the chief of its health agency said, as Indonesia struggles with the re

Jakarta – Social restrictions continue until next week with several modifications, including permit for sit-down meals and drinks at outdoor restaurants, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo

Heru Andriyanto, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia has recorded 38,679 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours as four-week lockdown entered the last day on Sunday, government figures show

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's accelerated vaccination drive has hit a speed bump as its stock of Covid-19 vaccines ready for use is almost fully utilised, preventing it f

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Timor-Leste's top churchman has called on priests and religious to respect the Vatican's decision to dismiss a priest for sexual abuse and asked them to support hi

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Dian Anggraeni has been trying to get herself vaccinated against COVID-19 for the past two months. But so far, her attempts have been unsuccessful.

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – Police set out barbed wire and concrete barricades around the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Saturday in an effort to tighten security after calls for a

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – When Martin, a 63-year-old resident of west Jakarta, lost his mother-in-law to COVID-19 last week, he set about organising her cremation.

Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta and Rebecca Ratcliffe – Scenes that have for months haunted hospitals across Indonesia's Java island are appearing across the country, as the Delta varia

Max Lane – In Indonesia, a paid vaccination programme bombed out in a span of days.

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Jakarta – In her annual statement in January, Foreign Minister Retno L P Marsudi said Indonesia would focus on "health security diplomacy".

The speed and scale of the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia has created a perfect breeding ground for a potential new super-strain that could be even more contagious and deadly than th

Tasha Wibawa – A COVID-19 crisis has unfolded as the highly transmissible Delta variant tears through Indonesia, where health facilities have buckled under the pressure.

Jakarta (Antara) – Indonesia is temporarily pulling its diplomats out of North Korea in response to the latter's coronavirus lockdown, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) on Thursday extended the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States Ambassador Sung Yong Kim regarding

Caesar Akbar, Budiarti Utami, Aji Nugroho, Jakarta – Ivermectin continues to be a hot topic of discussion after the antiparasitic drug – which has been excluded by India from its list o

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency (BPOM) cautioned stakeholders, including pharmaceutical firms that produce Ivermectin, to stop promoting the medicine as a t

Antara, Jakarta – The head of the work committee (Panja) on the sexual violence eradication bill (RUU PKS), Willy Aditya, said that the bill will cover sexual violence in the digital re

The story of a third grader from East Kalimantan who became an orphan after his parents succumbed to COVID-19 has tugged at the hearts of Indonesians across the country.

Mega Safitri, Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) urged Firli Bahuri to immediately step down as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman.

Kate Lamb – Indonesia is suffering a devastating wave of coronavirus infections, driven by the Delta variant, but the government is already talking about relaxing social curbs enacted e

Joe Lo – The Indonesian government has released an updated 2030 climate plan and long term strategy that indicate the country's reliance on coal will continue well into the 2050's.

Ronna Nirmala, Jakarta – Indonesian police arrested a Papuan separatist leader who was on the run after he escaped from a prison in Papua with several others in 2016, while serving a li

Joniansyah (Contributor), Jakarta – The Soekarno-Hatta International Airport as of Friday, July 23, will soon impose a beefier travel restriction and restrict foreign arrivals that fail

Residents of a village in East Java's Situbondo regency were caught on film destroying the coffin of a deceased COVID-19 patient, the video of which has widely circulated in Indonesia.

Indonesians turning to drugs during the pandemic has become a topic of discussion after a certain celebrity couple's recent meth bust, with official data pointing towards increased abus

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Usually every Eid al-Adha, Riki Priyanto's father would bring home goat or beef from the nearby mosque.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Defense Ministry on Thursday confirmed that it is currently in the process of procuring six T-50i Golden Eagle trainer jets from South Korea that is wor

Ian Storey – Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto has been on an accelerated drive to modernise the TNI.

Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – American mining giant Freeport McMoRan will not proceed with plans to build a new copper smelter with China's Tsingshan Holding Group, its local Indonesi

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged Indonesia to implement a stricter and wider lockdown to combat surging COVID-19 infections and deaths, just d

Jayapura – Hospitals in Papua are nearing full capacity amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, with health officials bracing for the full impact of the virulent Delta variant on one of the cou

Jakarta (Agencies) – Indonesia reported a record high 1,383 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to data from the country's COVID-19 task force (Satgas COVID-19).

Jakarta – The UK has recently opened an eight-week public consultation on the new trading rules which will reduce and simplify tariffs for low and lower-middle income countries, includi