Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Consumers are looking for affordability when purchasing cigarettes as the increase in the tobacco excise and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has criticized the Supreme Court's recent record of granting judicial reviews of graft cases that have often led to lighter punishm

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The West Java administration has asked the central government for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to increase the province's COVID-19 testing capacity.

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The government has increased the deployment of police and military personnel to improve compliance with health protocols as the nation struggles to control th

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has started to deliberate the controversial family resilience bill as lawmakers behind the bill, which is deemed by critics to inte

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, have urged the government to consider delaying the upcoming regional elect

Adi Warsono (Contributor), Bekasi – As many as 369 employees of the Epson factory in the Ejib industrial area, South Cikarang, Bekasi Regency were confirmed positive for the coronavirus

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Jakarta Transportation Agency recorded more than one thousand violations committed by online motorcycle taxi or online ojek drivers during the first week of

Antara, Jakarta – The Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Board (PBNU) has called on the General Election Commission (KPU), the Government and the Indonesian Parliament to postpone the implementa

A Chinese drug trafficker facing a death sentence has escaped from jail on the outskirts of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, by tunnelling through the sewers, police have said.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Indonesia has set a new record in the last 24 hours, with 4,176 new cases to take the country's total to 248,852.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Yovanda, Samarinda, Indonesia – On Sept.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) is urging President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo open the curtain on the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanamban in the Intan Jaya regency of Pa

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' (DPR) Legislation Body (Baleg) has restarted deliberations on the Draft Law on Family Resilience which created a public controversy not long ago.

Jakarta – Clinical laboratory firm PT Kimia Farma Diagnostika, a subsidiary of publicly-listed pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma, is set to pursue legal action against an employee w

Jakarta – The Pontianak Police in West Kalimantan are investigating a traffic police officer for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl after pulling her over.

Jakarta – General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Pramono Ubaid Tanthowi announced on Saturday that he had contracted COVID-19, making him the third KPU commissioner to test pos

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Carlos Roy Fajarta, Iman Rahman Cahyadi, Jakarta – Indonesia is expanding the capacity of its main isolation facility for Covid-19 patients in the capital Jakarta as the number of new c

Tassia Sipahutar and Eko Listiyorini – Indonesia continues to sell fish to China after the coronavirus was discovered on the packaging of a local seafood exporter's products, the Marine

Nivell Rayda, Bali – It had been weeks since a customer last stepped inside Safira Klau Gallery, a small art and furniture shop in the Kerobokan area of Bali, Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has temporarily shuttered 37 companies based in the city since full large-scale restrictions (PSBB) were reimposed in the capital earlier this week

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto is in hot water because of a recent comment about having deployed thousands of medical interns to the front lines of the

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Kapuas Hulu administration in West Kalimantan has declared a 14-day state of emergency in response to massive flooding that damaged at least 980 resi

Primus Dorimulu, Dina Fitri Anisa, Indah Handayani, Jakarta – Indonesia would soon run out of hospital beds to handle Covid-19 patients in a severe and critical condition, presenting a

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The daily death toll in the Indonesian Covid-19 outbreak has exceeded 100 for seven consecutive days, the longest streak of three-digit deaths as newly cases

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesia registered a record high of 4,168 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the country's total to 240,687 cases with 9,448 fatalities.

Jakarta – Health authorities suspect that several patients currently in treatment at the Wisma Atlet COVID-19 hospital in Jakarta contracted the coronavirus from family members, because

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Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The United States Treasury Secretary Steven T.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Authorities will impose stricter screening measures on visitors to Bali amid an increasing number of COVID-19 cases on the resort island.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Sumatra police have arrested a 28-year-old woman in Deli Serdang regency, North Sumatra, for allegedly defaming the flag of the Republic of Indonesia

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The rising number of coronavirus cases in Jakarta has forced the capital's administration to add 13 city-owned hospitals to the roster of COVID-19 referral hospi

Alya Nurbaiti and Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – In what seems to be an irony in the country's fight against the coronavirus, the Health Ministry office in Kuningan, South Jakarta, turns out

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Automotive Manufacturers (Gaikindo), which previously slashed its domestic car sales target by 40 percent to just 600,000 units t

Jakarta – Djoko Soegiharto Tjandra, a graft convict and former fugitive in the high-profile Bank Bali corruption case, allegedly planned to bribe officials at the Supreme Court and the

Fredrik Sjoholm – Timor-Leste is going through turbulent times.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – An epidemiologist with the University of Indonesia, Pandu Riono, viewed that President Joko Widodo or Jokowi should directly intervene in the Covid-19 mitigation

Yudo Dahono, Yustinus Paat, Dina Manafe, Jakarta – The latest data have revealed that the ministries and government institutions' offices as hot spots for the Covid-19 spread in Jakarta

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry is working with the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) to provide hotel rooms to isolate COVID-19

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Authorities in the Jakarta Metro Area have recorded 22,801 people violating health protocols – including wearing masks – in just four days.

Joshua Mcdonald – In Jakarta, on the evening of August 29, 2020, a 31-officer police unit raided a private "gay party" of 56 men in a hotel, arresting and charging nine, the alleged eve

Nur Azizah Rizki Astuti. Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD said Wednesday that law enforcement in Indonesia has a terrible image.

West Papuans have raised over $US50,000 to help an Indonesian human rights lawyer repay government-sponsored scholarship funding.

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry aims to expedite the construction of regional border crossings and their supporting facilities, such as roads and markets

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Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government will need to augment its social safety net to offset the economic blow of the reimposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakar

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – An Intan Jaya-based armed "separatist" group in Papua reportedly launched several attacks against civilians and an Indonesian Military (TNI) member recently,

Jakarta – General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Arief Budiman tested positive for COVID-19 after undergoing a swab test on Thursday evening.

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – State pharmaceutical holding company PT Bio Farma will have a chance to become an international vaccine producer as it has partnered with the Coalition for