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Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) confirmed that at least 900 people were affected by flash floods in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java, which occurred at 1

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Immigration officials in Bali on Tuesday summoned American citizen Kristen Gray who has been living in the resort island for more than a year for allegedly misu

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) is urging President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to summon companies which have business permits covering forest areas and land in Sou

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – Villagers in Indonesia's West Sulawesi are running short of food and water after taking refuge in the hills following a deadly earthquake in the ear

Koh Ewe – Flashing a big thumbs-up in a video to his nearly 50 million Instagram followers, Indonesian actor and social media influencer Raffi Ahmad received a COVID-19 jab last week an

Balinese musician I Gede Ari Astina, most popularly known as Jerinx, had his sentence reduced to 10 months following an appeal, an official from the Denpasar District Court confirmed to

Jakarta may soon run out of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, the provincial government said, as it announced the latest data on medical treatment capacity in the capital.

Such is Indonesians' love for malls that it was only a matter of time before somebody floated the idea of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at the shopping center.

Experts and the general public alike have pretty much known all along that Indonesia's official COVID-19 cases count, however worrying it is, does not reflect the even more grim reality

Dina Manafe & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government repeated the call for all hospitals across the country to increase quota for Covid-19 patients after the total num

At least 6 people were killed and 500 others were evacuated from their homes in the North Sulawesi capital of Manado, which was hit with a deadly extreme weather combo over the weekend.

Andi Hajramurni and Dessy Sagita, Mamuju, West Sulawesi – Medics battled exhaustion and the risk of Covid-19 as they raced Monday to treat scores of people injured by a devastating eart

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – As Indonesia grapples with the impact of COVID-19, terrorism cells in the country continue to spread radical messages, actively seeking new recruits and plotting

Following the announcement of a Provisional Government of West Papua and rejection of Jakarta's 'Special Autonomy' renewal, the Indonesian state has pursued its strategy of aggressive a

Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Asfinawati says that Presidential Regulation Number 7/2021 which was signed by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo earlier this

Torrential monsoon rains have hampered the hunt for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, as the death toll rose to at least 81, with thousands left

Jakarta – Deutsche Bank Indonesia projects that investors will be lured back to the country's domestic capital market, given the stronger rupiah and supportive interest rates.

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The Indonesian Worker Union Confederation (KSPI) president Said Iqbal on Monday assured that union members will hold a protest in front of the Constitution

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from University of Indonesia (UI), Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono, argues that the large-scale social restriction (PSBB) that has been enacted in the capita

Feybien Ramayanti, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia suspects that the flash floods which have inundated South Kalimantan are because watershed areas lost around 304,225 hectares of forest

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The Indonesian Police have identified at least 15 suspects charged with falsifying Covid-19 test results at the country's biggest airport and taking illegal

Elena Couper & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Tempo is doing what any respected media company should do: reporting facts and providing valuable analytical opinions on issues that matter

Antara, Jakarta – Floodwaters, reaching a height of up to two meters, submerged two sub-districts in Jember District, East Java Province, and displaced hundreds of people.

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for its weak health response to Covid-19 which has brought Indonesia to its knees sinc

Jakarta – Five people were killed, and one was still missing after floods and landslides hit Manado, North Sulawesi, on Saturday following heavy rain over some unstable soil structure o

Kadir Ruslan, Jakarta – In Indonesia, tofu-tempeh is a story of folk food with a flavor of imports.

Ben Terrall – Of all the tragic events of the 20th Century, the 1965-1966 campaign of mass killing in Indonesia is among the least known in the U.S.

Meleva Thorn & Sienna Curnow, Jakarta – Indonesian journalists are waging a war on fake news through a collaborative fact-checking network involving nearly all major media organizat

Jakarta – The government is once again unfurling an electric car program. It needs a comprehensive and consistent policy to allow the old dream to not collapse.

Jakarta – At least 42 people have died from the West Sulawesi earthquake, and more than 800 people suffered minor to serious injuries as the search and rescue teams work around the cloc

Pacific Media Watch – The pro-independence conflict in West Papua with a missionary plane reportedly being shot down at Intan Jaya has stirred contrasting responses from the TNI/POLRI s

Niniek Karmini and Yusuf Wahil, Mamuju – Damaged roads and bridges, power blackouts and lack of heavy equipment on Saturday hampered Indonesia's rescuers after a 6.2 magnitude earthquak

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's ongoing surge in newly coronavirus cases reached a new level with an additional 14,224 cases on Saturday to set a new high for the fourth straight

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesian state oil and gas company Pertamina said on Friday it has begun a second round of test production for a biodiesel made entirely from palm oil at its

Antara, Jakarta – The Search and Rescue (SAR) team of the South Kalimantan Police's Mobile Brigade Unit (Brimob) evacuated residents affected by the flood at night.

Angie Teo, Jakarta – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island has killed at least 35 people and injured hundreds the country's disaster mitigation agency said, as panic

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Technology giant Grab requests early access to the Covid-19 vaccine for their driver partners and merchants as part of the prioritized vulnerable populatio

Jakarta – The government is recruiting a million teachers under a contract scheme. A short term solution for the matter of badly distributed quality educators.

Antara, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said he was open to the possibility of paid Covid-19 vaccination programs carried out by corporations.

Unggul Wirawan, Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Constitutional Court has rejected on Thursday a motion to expand its broadcasting law that would put content creators on digital platf

Jakarta – Prominent Muslim preacher Syekh Ali Jaber died on Thursday following 19 days' treatment at Yarsi hospital in Central Jakarta.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 12,818 coronavirus cases on Friday to set a new high for the third day in a row and take its total to 882,418, according to Health Ministry

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Coordinating Minister of Politics, Law, and Security Mahfud MD said that the final report on the deaths of six Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members has reache

Rebecca Ratcliffe – At the Uluwatu temple in Bali, monkeys mean business.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's transport ministry ordered the nation's airlines to inspect their older, so-called classic Boeing 737 aircraft following Saturday's (Jan 9) crash of a

Agus Susanto, East Lampung, Indonesia – It's early December and Sujiono is busy trimming the branches of a ficus tree in his village in Sumatra's Lampung province.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Presidential Palace stated that it had reprimanded a celebrity, Raffi Ahmad, for neglecting the health protocols during a gathering with a number of other fam

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia started vaccinating health workers and public servants for COVID-19 on Thursday, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot o

Sebastian Partogi, Jakarta – Institutional problems have hampered sustainable food systems in Indonesia, making it hard for the country to provide adequate nutrition for people across t