Safrin Labatu, Jakarta – From shirtless soldiers to teens sun tanning on their parents' driveways, Indonesians are soaking up rays like never before in the hope that plentiful sunshine

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) has injected Rp 503.8 trillion (US$32.7 billion) into banks and the debt market to stabilize the rupiah and help support the governmen

Jakarta – Four women have been arrested and charged in connection to the death of a taxi driver in Bandung regency, West Java.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Many residents of regions across Java have been ignoring the government's mudik (exodus) ban and are insisting on traveling home undetected, even though some are

Sausan Atika and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The government has claimed that Jakarta, the country's epicenter of COVID-19, has flattened the curve of transmission, but experts say furth

Here at Coconuts, we are always in awe of Indonesian netizens' ingenuity when it comes to meme-making.

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The actual number of COVID-19 deaths in Indonesia may be substantially higher than officially reported as several regions have recorded hundreds of fatalitie

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – A perceived inconsistency in the sentencing of graft convicts has put pressure on the Supreme Court to draft a set of guidelines for judges to follow, as antig

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Former Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) commissioner Sitti Hikmawatty – who was fired by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo after making the scient

Jakarta – More Indonesians have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis as the government's flagship unemployment benefits program, the pre-employment card, registered 8.6 millio

Beladenta Amalia – "Covid-19 hits old people the hardest." The oft-heard statement might have given many young Indonesians a false sense of security as they puff away on their cigarett

Antara, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration through Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy Agency has temporarily sealed 101 companies or offices violating the Large-Scale Social Restri

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented believers with a dilemma: either they choose to "lockdown" their prayers at home, or they view the pandemic as a challenge of their faith and, in re

Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Asfinawati says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to postpone the deliberations on the sections of the Draft

Jakarta – A photograph of Klaten Regent Sri Mulyani printed on a packet of social assistance (bansos) for those impacted upon by the corona virus (Covid-19) epidemic has attracted a po

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Jakarta plans to give away two cloth face masks to every resident of the capital to help slow the spread of Covid-19, Governor Anies Baswedan said on Wednesday

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has launched an online complaint center for people to file reports about unsatisfactory public services during the coronavirus crisis

Sana Jaffrey – The sequence of denial, reluctance, and alarm in Indonesia's response to the coronavirus crisis follows the trajectory of many other countries, including highly develope

John McCarthy – Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia's poverty rate has fallen to its lowest level ever.

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's restaurant chains and retailers are struggling to fulfill their obligations to their employees while trying to keep their business afloat amid the C

Many Indonesians dream of studying abroad.

James Massola – Indonesians could resume some form of normal life by July, according to two key members of the government's COVID-19 taskforce, who claim coronavirus infections are dec

With most Indonesians transfixed by the government's messy management of Covid-19, one issue has unexpectedly cut through the noise – growing questions over the relevance of "millennia

Joao da Cruz Cardoso – The economic impact of coronavirus has been made even more severe in oil-producing countries due to the consequences of Covid-19 itself and a collapse in oil pri

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Lawmakers have expressed their disagreement over President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's recent social media posts that claim the government and the House of Represen

By Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Indonesia currently has the highest covid-19 coronavirus mortality rate in Asia – between 8-9 percent – owing to its poor public health management

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indigenous rights activists in Indonesia have condemned local authorities over the death in custody of a farmer accused of stealing palm fruit from a plan

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government has disbursed around Rp 70 billion (US$4.5 million) in cash assistance for some 116,000 families using village funds to help them cope with

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has set up a number of homeless shelters across the city as the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 outbreak forces some hard-hit residents to

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Interfaith Network for COVID-19 Response (JIC) has collaborated with entrepreneurs to aid informal workers with food packages throughout Ramadan.

Belseran Christ, Maluku – Four years ago, Ruth Lawalata did not expect to bid farewell to her activist husband Yohanes Yonatan Balubun for a final time.

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Private employee Juliana Ekaputri, 26, said she was surprised after seeing a video last Friday from her colleague showing how videoconferencing applicati

Jakarta – Two organizations representing Indonesian jamu (herbal medicine) producers have objected to the reported importation of ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by

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Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Projects in the warehouse, transportation and telecommunications sector have contributed the most to total realized investment this year at around 23

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta's satellite cities and regencies of Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java will be extended for two weeks

Tom Allard and Kate Lamb, Jakarta – More than 2,200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID-19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease, a Reuters review of data from

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Medan Zoo in North Sumatra launched a donation campaign on Monday in the hopes of covering its operational budget and supplying food for animals in the par

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Indonesia receives $765,000 worth of medical supplies from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday to increase the country's capacity in containing the coronavirus ou

Iwan M Putuhena, Novy Lumanauw, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The government plans to provide incentives for 2.44 million farmers after President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo ordered his min

Yustinus Paat, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 415 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours on Tuesday, the highest single-day rise since the first cases in the count

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – The COVID-19 task forces in Surabaya, East Java and its satellite regencies Sidoarjo and Gresik are set to impose a curfew during the large-scale social restric

Suherdjoko, Surakarta, Central Java – Three nurses who work in Bung Karno Hospital in Surakarta, Central Java, have been evicted from their rooming house over the landlord's concerns t

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's flagship unemployment benefits program, the pre-employment card, has come under criticism for the inability of its online tra

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – A big data study by the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance, or Indef, found that 67.7 percent of conversations on Indonesian social media reflect

Francisca Christy Rosana, Bisnis, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) lamented the government's decision, especially the Manpower Ministry's, to allow compa

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The head of Indonesia's expert team on Covid-19 task force has disputed the convention used by the World Health Organisation to measure the fatality ra

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Key business groups have expressed opposition to the decision to delay deliberation of the labor provisions in the omnibus bill on job creation, saying it wil

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Adults aged 30 to 59 make up the largest proportion of COVID-19 deaths in Indonesia, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday.