Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Jakarta Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI) reported that there are 23 journalists that filed complaints and fell victim to layoff from a number of mass

Antara, Jakarta – Jakarta is on its 12th day of large-scale social restriction of PSBB.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have announced they will ban all rallies commemorating May Day after workers in the capital city said they planned to hold protests on April 30, in spite o

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) warned that the ban on the annual mass exodus, locally known as mudik, during the fasting month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Novy Lumanauw, Iwan M Putuhena, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially issued a ban on mudik, the annual exodus of millions of people from the countr

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is set to evaluate the implementation of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) as many non-essential workplaces are still ignoring t

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's total investment realization slightly increased in the first quarter of this year, but the global economic woes caused by the COVID-19 pa

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Five months pregnant, 33-year-old Niken Fajarsari has to juggle work, domestic chores and teaching her son, as schools have been closed in Jakarta to curb th

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – As the COVID-19 pandemic strikes the Indonesian economy, with almost 3 million people having lost their jobs and 70 million at risk of losing income because of

Ari Supriyanti Rikin, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's coronavirus infection rate continues to fluctuate with 375 new confirmed cases reported on Tuesday after only 185 new cases

Jakarta – The Civil Society Alliance says that they were removed then locked out of a House of Representatives (DPR) Legislative Body (Baleg) online meeting discussing the Draft Omnibu

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The National Police are planning to roll out its Idul Fitri security operation, known as "Operasi Ketupat," earlier this year after President Joko "Jokowi" Wi

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The National Alms Agency (Baznas) has reminded its agencies across the nation to help campaign against donation distribution involving mass gatherings dur

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Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Dozens of Indonesian migrant workers returning from Malaysia have been caught attempting to sneak past border authorities via illegal routes.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Indonesia must export ready-to-use personal protective equipment (PPE) to South Korea as a form of compensation after the government bought raw materials from

Ivany Atina Arbi and Arya Dipa, Jakarta and Bandung – Two local figures of Jayamukti village in Bekasi regency, West Java, attempted to disperse a Sunday service held privately by a fa

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – With Indonesians prevented from celebrating Kartini Day to the full extent with festive parades and group competitions due to COVID-19, many have taken

A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – Enik Maslahah, 49, is quite attuned to the environment she lives in, despite being a relatively recent transplant to Kalimantan.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – A number of journalists and media professionals in Jakarta have been left jobless with little to no financial support as the media industry cuts costs, ci

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – The East Java Police have launched an investigation into a police officer suspected of having deceived a man into a same-sex relationship after photos depicting

A patient under observation (PDP) for possible coronavirus infection left isolation from a hospital in the Central Java city of Tegal over the weekend, with his wife reportedly aiding

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Febriana Firdaus – Indonesia has banned an annual homecoming in which tens of millions of people travel to see their families for Eid-al-Fitr, fearing the mass ex

Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia will ban the mass exodus tradition, locally known as mudik, at the end of the Muslim fasting month in May in a bid to curb the spread of coronavir

Jakarta – The Covid-19 outbreak has prompted members of the public to launch their own crowdsourced databases on the spread of the virus in their respective communities in a bid to she

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives have expressed dissatisfaction about President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's newly announced ban on the Idul Fitri tradition o

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Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The House of Representatives will begin deliberations on the omnibus bill on job creation with noncontroversial topics and discuss controversial provisions on

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – People around the world are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic differently. Some are anxious, others unperturbed.

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The use of virtual medical services has climbed in recent months as people try to contain the spread of COVID-19 at hospitals and clinics in Indonesia,

Sausan Atika and Asip Hasani, Jakarta – Living in self-isolation is daunting for Bima Mahardika, a high school senior in South Tangerang, Banten.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government is pushing regencies to slash street lighting taxes (PPJ) for 31 million of Indonesia's poorest homes in helping them weather the economic shoc

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Hotels in Bali are reportedly planning to start opening up doors in May, with tourism authorities also expecting to welcome Chinese tourists to the island by June following some optimi

Jakarta – Indonesia's death toll from the coronavirus has likely reached 1,000, nearly double the official figure of 582, Indonesian Doctors' Association (IDI) chairman Daeng Faqih was

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Public transportation use in Greater Jakarta declined sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic even before the implementation of the large-scale social restriction

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Slowing loan demand in the first quarter of this year is expected to continue up until the end of 2020 and can potentially drag down Indonesia's economic growth

Asip Hasani, Blitar, East Java – The Surabaya municipal administration and two regencies of its greater metropolitan area, Gresik and Sidoarjo, decided on Sunday to apply to the Health

Agustinus Hari, Manado, North Sulawesi – The members of an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in Manado, North Sulawesi, have joined hands to raise funds and distr

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Fitch Solutions has downgraded Indonesia's economic growth projection to 2.8 percent, down from its initial projection of 4.2 percent, as consumption and

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – As the COVID-19 epidemic in Indonesia shows no signs of easing, two of the country's highest courts, the Supreme Court (MA) and the Constitutional Court (MK),

Yustinus Paat, Herman, Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government has asked workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic to register on a special site to receive their unemployment benef

Dina Manafe, Anselmus Bata, Jakarta – Indonesia received a shipment of 50,000 reagents from South Korea on Sunday which the government will use to boost the number of polymerase chain

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The head of the national task force for COVID-19 mitigation, Doni Monardo, admitted that the enforcement of the large-scale social restrictions or PSBB in Jakar

M Julnis Firmansyah, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Not using face masks has been recorded to be the most common offense during the implementation of the Large Scale Social

When all else fails, one way to convince Indonesians to self-isolate, as we've seen before with the pocong guards, is to spook them into compliance.

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The head of the Indonesian Bureau of Logistics, or Bulog, Budi Waseso, said on Monday that Indonesia has enough supply of rice to last during the coronavirus

Jakarta – After weeks of bleak outlook in its struggle to end the coronavirus outbreak, Indonesia saw some promising signs on Monday with a sharp drop in daily new cases and a lot more

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry's fiscal policy agency (BKF) has voiced concerns that the government's Rp 436.1 trillion (US$28.14 billion) stimulus may be insuffici

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to climb in Indonesia and large-scale social restrictions remain in place across the country, it is easy to lose sig