Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Hospital letters declaring the holder COVID-19-free is being offered on a number of e-commerce platforms for people hoping to travel amid the mudik (exodus) ba

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's imports have fallen for 10 consecutive months in April as manufacturing companies cut production output while consumer demand continues to shr

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Projected slower economic growth caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to worsen Indonesia's struggle to promote inclusive development in the c

Jakarta – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia's main airport, was reportedly packed with passengers on Thursday morning despite the government's call f

Jakarta – Food delivery service platform GoFood, a part of ride-hailing application Gojek, has seen a jump in transactions in recent months as people dine at home during the COVID-19 p

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed a revision of the 2009 Coal and Mineral Mining Law on Tuesday in a move criticized by some experts and NGOs over a lack of

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Blood supplies across the country are dwindling as a result of fewer people participating in blood drives during the fasting month of Ramadan and the COVID-19 o

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia will raise premiums for health insurance provided by a state company but also increased subsidies for the lowest rate, impacting tens of thousands of poli

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Who runs the schools? Women.

Asip Hasani, Surabaya, East Java – Airlangga University's Institute of Tropical Diseases (ITD-UNAIR) in Surabaya has completed six whole genome sequencing analysis on genetic data of S

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo called on all people of faith to pray for humanity as part of efforts to ease the struggle against COVID-19 and join a glo

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on the public to remain patient and calm as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten the lives of Ind

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Confirmed cases of coronavirus infections in Indonesia spiked by 689 on Wednesday in yet another highest single-day rise to take the total cases to 15,438, i

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government said a total of 3,998 companies in the capital city had adhered to the rules of the large-scale social restriction, or PSBB,

Officials have placed 28 Tambora, West Jakarta residents on the People Under Surveillance (ODP) list after they took part in a congregational prayer led by a neighborhood chief who was

Ardila Syakriah, Arya Dipa, Asip Hasani and Suherdjoko, Blitar/Semarang/Jakarta – Indonesia's most populous island of Java has become the country's epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak,

Jakarta – Five Papuan activists imprisoned for treason are not eligible for early release, as part of the government's prisoner assimilation program, which aims to reduce COVID-19 tran

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The country's airlines are in dire need of financial stimulus to withstand the COVID-19-induced crisis, amid a sharp revenue decline and looming deadlines

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups has criticized law enforcement officials in Pekanbaru, Riau, for pursuing criminal cases against those found in violation of

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing (PUPR) Ministry and the Transportation Ministry have had their 2020 budgets slashed by a combined total of Rp 54.8 trillion (US$3

Camellia Webb-Gannon, Jaime Swift, Michael Westaway and Nathan Wright – Indonesia has recently indicated it is considering investigating the killings of hundreds of thousands of people

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has reported more than 1,250 new confirmed coronavirus cases over the past two days, the first time there were more than 1,000 cases in a 48-hour p

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Malaysian authorities arrested more than 1,300 undocumented migrants, including 421 Indonesian citizens, in a raid on Monday.

Arya Dipa and Tri Indah Oktavianti, Bandung and Jakarta – Jakarta's satellite areas of Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java have extended their large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) p

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government has defended its decision to raise Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) premiums after concerns were raised that the mov

Jakarta – A 20-year-old woman identified as AR was arrested and named a suspect on Wednesday after pulling a "prank" on the medical workers of two hospitals in Bone regency, South Sula

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has fined the management of the McDonald's restaurant in the Sarinah shopping center in Central Jakarta Rp 10 million (US$670

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Eight civil society organizations plan to mobilize grassroots support in challenging the controversial new Mining Law passed on Tuesday by the House of Repres

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Volunteers for crowdsourced database KawalCovid-19 have renewed their calls for the government to release all of its COVID-19 data as the number of suspected C

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's advertisement spending dropped sharply in April as most big ad spenders reduced their marketing activities amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Pacific Media Centre – TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating in favour of s

A young woman in Bone regency, South Sulawesi was recently arrested after faking seizures and claiming that she was infected with the coronavirus at a local hospital.

James Massola and Karuni Rompies – Indonesia has recorded 689 new coronavirus cases, another single day record, as the country looks to be backing away from plans to reopen the economy

The mining company PT Freeport Indonesia has increased efforts to test for, and treat people with Covid-19, in Papua.

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Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Once an English teacher, Afghan refugee Zakir Hussain has given up hope of having a bright future.

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – COVID-19 is not the only threat Indonesia is currently facing – cyberattacks are also on the rise, as hackers to exploit Indonesia's digital security vul

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Nearly every region that has imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) has recorded a significant decrease in coronavirus cases, the national COVID-1

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The mourning family of EP, an Indonesian crew member of a Chinese fishing vessel who died after receiving treatment in South Korea, has called on the governmen

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Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The government plans to conduct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) "pool tests" in eight provinces that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, namely

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – As the country grapples with the COVID-19 crisis, lawmakers have approved a controversial revision of the 2009 Coal and Mineral Mining Law, despite outcry fro

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – State-owned energy and utility companies are taking measures to cut expenditure and diversify their businesses to survive while the COVID-19 pandemic is batte

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – While the House of Representatives has claimed it focused on regulations related to the COVID-19 outbreak in the recently concluded legislative session, activi

Jakarta – After admitting his role in a bribery case implicating former Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi, retired Indonesian shuttler Taufik Hidayat later claimed that such corru

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The government plans to allocate an additional Rp 56.5 trillion (US$3.8 billion) to a number ministries and agencies in 2021 to revive the economy, according

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Family members of victims of the Semanggi tragedies in the late 1990s filed on Tuesday a lawsuit against Attorney General ST Burhanuddin over his statem

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Stay home and make babies?

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has issued a decree that serves as the legal basis for sanctioning violators of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) and

Riska Rahman and Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Experts are calling on the government to ensure transparency and tight supervision as it prepares a national economic recovery program th