Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 392 coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday, the lowest daily death toll since June 27, as the surge in newly cases also slowed down, governme

Jakarta – Indonesians expressed concerns over the security of their personal medical data Saturday after the president's coronavirus vaccine certificate was leaked and a large test app

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesian Hatimene Hura, 24, has yet to be vaccinated against COVID-19, seven months after Indonesia's inoculation programme kicked off.

Rahel Narda Chaterine, Jakarta – Buzzers and influencers are seen as having become the principle voice of the government in the current era.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has deployed five ferries to be used as makeshift isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms in several cities wi

Andi Firdaus, Fardah, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has reported that a total of 1,805 natural disasters struck Indonesia during the January-August 2021 perio

Rini Kustiani, Jakarta – Data from the National Development Planning Ministry or Bappenas showed that the amount of food lost and food waste in Indonesia reached 23-48 tons per year in

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Three palm oil companies have sued the local government in Indonesia's West Papua province after their plantation licenses were revoked following a recent

Max Lane – Early presidential bids by some Indonesian politicians have highlighted the lack of any policy debate in mainstream Indonesian politics.

Firdia Lisnawati and Niniek Karmini, Sangeh, Indonesia – Deprived of their preferred food source – the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the cor

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – A number of people stage a protest before the Jakarta City Hall and the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) building to reject the city government's plan to

All of Bali's tourism workers have been vaccinated as of this week, the province's health agency chief has confirmed, as officials continue to gear up for the possibility of restarting

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition Against Sexual Violence (KOMPAKS) says that as many as 85 articles have been removed in the process of changing the title of the Draft Law on the E

Jakarta – The total number of active Covid-19 cases in Indonesia has been in a steep decline since its peak in mid-July and is arriving at the levels before the outbreak of the highly c

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Schools have been reopening in a number of Indonesian regions this week with health protocols in place, particularly throughout the most populous island of Jav

Jakarta – The government is becoming more confident that the vaccination drive will gain momentum as it secures more doses and gains more experience in vaccinating the population.

Grace Nadia Chandra, Jakarta – TrendMicro, an international cyber security software company, reports that Indonesia has entered the CRI zone of 'elevated risk', pushing the country to t

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Indonesians were recently stunned by yet another news of a major data breach, reported by vpnMentor researchers, that exposed personal data of 1.3 million people

Antara, Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) legislator Al Muzzammil Yusuf in a hearing on Thursday called for The National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas) to organize an in depth

Jakarta – A leak online of the president's COVID-19 vaccine certificate has heightened concern in Indonesia about information security, coming in the same week as a data breach affectin

Fitria Chusna Farisa, Jakarta – Presidential Staff Deputy Chief Juri Ardiantoro says that criticism should not be allowed to ignore obedience to the law, ethics and aesthetics.

Bayu Marhaenjati, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – A government digital application that tracks vaccination status of every citizen came under fire after the personal data of President J

Huyogo Simbolon, Bandung – Scores of people gathered at the People's Struggle Monument in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung on Thursday September 2.

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – Bekasi City PSI Party chairperson Tanti Herawati called for law enforcers to severely punish the man identified as AT who allegedly committed the heinous act

It was a day like any other at a COVID-19 vaccination venue in Tuban, East Java, before a crocodile, which was at least 1 meter long, terrified the health conscious folks when it paid t

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Antara, Jakarta – The Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono in a virtual press conference on Thursday said the national vaccination rate against Covid-19 underwent a rapid incr

An employee at the Indonesian Broadcast Commission (KPI) has come forward with explosive claims detailing years of bullying and sexual harassment in the hands of his colleagues, prompti

Yuji Mizuno and Fachri Aidulsyah – Since its shocking takeover of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul last month, the Taliban, now the de facto Afghan government, has repeatedly

Antara, Jakarta – Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman on Tuesday urged Indonesians to not let their guard down despite government statistics seemingly show that the curve o

Herman, Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia's pandemic-battered tourism suffered from a 71.42 percent drop in foreign tourist arrivals from January to July 2021, according to the Ce

Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Asfinawati has warned that conflicts of interest involving public officials are subject to criminal prosecution.

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – It's a tale of two countries when it comes to Indonesia's COVID-19 situation.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia is scaling up its fight against fisheries-related crimes, going beyond boat crews to target the ultimate beneficiaries of these illegal practices.

Jakarta – Indonesia's manufacturing sector has contracted for the second consecutive month in August, albeit at a slower rate, as disruptions brought by the Covid-19 pandemic continue t

Hendartyo Hanggi, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded that from the total of 138,970 foreign tourist visits in July 2021, the arrival of international tourists in the country

Bisnis, Jakarta – To date, there are only three Indonesians that made it to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI) in 2021, which ranks the wealth of the world's 500 richest peop

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Education, Cultural, Research, and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim on Tuesday has officially disbanded the National Education Standards Agency (BSNP), which w

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has administered more than 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine since the campaign began in mid-January, according to Health Ministry data released

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Think-tank Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia, or FPCI, urges Indonesia to take a more proactive approach in combating climate change, following a recen

Annisa Febiola, Jakarta – The Indonesian Health Ministry has launched a new feature in its website that allows the general public to independently monitor available Covid-19 vaccine sup

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – The Jakarta Health Agency Head of Disease Prevention and Control, Dwi Oktavia, on Monday announced that the city logged 341 new Covid-19 cases from 7,657 specime

Syafiq Hasyim – Speculation of the possibility of Indonesian President Jokowi seeking a third term in office remains rife.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has met the leaders of Indonesia's six main religions to iron out ways to improve Covid-19 vaccination efforts that critics say are progres

Grace Nadia Chandra, Jakarta – The Ministry of Health said in a press conference that there are indications that their Covid-19 eHAC application has been breached, following reports tha

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The corruption scandal in government's social assistance program that led to the recent conviction of former Social Affairs Minister Juliari Barubara is a bom

Jakarta – Audio-visual production house Watchdoc, which is active in monitoring environmental and corruption issues, has won the Ramon Magsaysay award for the category of emergent leade

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition held a theatrical action criticising public officials who violate the code of ethics.

A regent in Indonesia is facing massive scrutiny – and possibly legal repercussions – for essentially awarding himself and his subordinates taxpayers' money for every death from COVID-1