Indonesia's most popular fast food chain, KFC, is in the midst of a labor controversy after a workers' union says that it unilaterally and without notice furloughed hundreds of employe

Say it with us: social media influencers are not the authority on COVID-19 no matter how many millions of followers they have.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The heinous fate that befell Mira, a 42-year-old trans woman who was burned to death in Cilincing, North Jakarta, has prompted activists and advocacy groups to

Yudo Dahono, Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – The central government has finally released its official figure on suspect cases of Covid-19 across the country, which turned out to be mu

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy Agency discovered that many companies were still operating during the period of the large-scale social restriction

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic has yet to affect investors' investment plans in the country, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandj

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government has introduced a series of social assistance programs to help people affected by the social restrictions implemented to halt the sprea

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – Airports across Indonesia have reduced their operational hours and services, including by closing terminals, following a drop in flight traffic as a resul

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri inaugurated Brig.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta has officially got a new deputy governor with Gerindra Party politician Ahmad Riza Patria inaugurated on Wednesday, as the capital city struggles to co

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Indonesia's military will investigate an incident in the easternmost region of Papua in which two men were shot dead, it said on Wednesday, after righ

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives have agreed to reschedule the voting day for this year's simultaneous regional elections to Dec.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the NasDem Party, both in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's coalition, have pushed the government

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned fuel distributor Pertamina rolled out on Tuesday a fuel discount scheme for app-based ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers, who are the logistical lifel

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that it would allow 10 regions considered COVID-19 red zones to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to wi

Jakarta – A survey conducted by the Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry has revealed that most village heads across the country oppose this year's Idul Fitri mu

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar, Bali – Despite the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Bali, the island has no intention of implementing large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) similar

Dili – The government has designated the old hospital Antonio de Carvalho Lahane as medical facility for COVID-19 patients who are suffering from severe symptoms.

To suppress the risk of a novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in prisons, the Indonesian government has decided to grant early release to 30,000 inmates.

Pacific Media Watch – The Covid-19 coronavirus is "exacerbating tensions" in Indonesia's West Papua region and exposing the "shortcomings" of Jakarta government policy, warns a conflic

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged local administrations to reallocate their respective regional budgets (APBD) to fund the ongoing COVID-19 mitigat

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Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government has projected that millions of people will fall into poverty and unemployment as the COVID-19 pandemic batters the Indonesian economy,

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Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – One person has died and six others have been severely injured in a fire that destroyed four boats in the old port of Teluk Dalam, South Nias regency in North

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry will work with the Foreign Ministry to employ former Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) who previously worked in Malaysia

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government's ability to provide social protection and ensure undisrupted food supply will be crucial in preventing social unrest as the COVID-19 pande

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – A new transportation ministerial regulation has allowed app-based motorcycle taxis to take passengers provided certain health precautions are taken, but t

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The regional administrations in the Greater Jakarta area have decided to prohibit app-based ride-hailing ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers from transporting

Agustinus Hari, Manado – A riot that broke out at Manado Penitentiary in North Sulawesi over the weekend has killed one inmate, while another has been hospitalized after being shot by

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Covid-19 pandemic will roll back Indonesia's progress in eradicating poverty in the past year while pushing the unemployment level to its highest since 20

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has declared the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia a "non-natural national disaster" in a Presidential Decree.

Budi Sutrisno, Arya Dipa, and Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The first work day of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) period in Jakarta was marked by confusion and chaos, with p

Jakarta – A community unit in Madiun, East Java, has set up an "open kitchen" so that people in the area whose incomes have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will not need to go h

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry has sped up its cash-funded labor-intensive programs for people in rural areas.

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The West Java provincial government has asked youth organization Karang Taruna – first established in 1980 under President Soeharto's New Order – to get active

Prashanth Parameswaran – Last week, Timor-Leste's premier withdrew his resignation, citing the need for continuity in the country's political leadership to see out the battle against t

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic growth is expected to remain in positive territory this year, albeit ever so slightly, as the coronavirus pandemic puts the global ec

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – It is looking more and more likely the COVID-19 outbreak will derail President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's ambitions to move th

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have launched an investigation into a so-called anarcho-syndicalist group, which they claim has committed acts of vandalism and provo

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International Indonesia has urged the Tasikmalaya administration in West Java to revoke its latest decree preventing a congregation of

Jakarta – The Indonesian Confederation of Prosperity Labour Unions (KSBSI) is disappointed in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo because the Draft Omnibus Law on Job Creation is still bein

Jakarta – The Indonesian People's Faction (FRI) is urging the House of Representatives (DPR) to halt deliberations on the Draft Omnibus Law on Job Creation in the midst of the corona v

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A projected 1.3 million people from Greater Jakarta will return to their hometowns for the annual Idul Fitri mudik (exodus), according to the Indonesian Transp

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The trail of six Papuan activists is to be held online or long-distance amid the enforcement of large scale social restrictions or PSBB in Jakarta to conta

Sri Utami/J-3 – The contemptible act which befell Mira has ignited people's anger with prayers from several communities doing the rounds on social media.

Dili – The number of COVID-19 cases is increasing in East Timor.

A police officer in the North Sumatra capital of Medan is facing disciplinary sanctions for allegedly taking a bribe from a driver he stopped on the street and spitting on another.