Police in Boyolali, Central Java is pursuing an impostor clinic worker who has been asking women for nudes with the pretense of medical evaluation after they received their COVID-19 jab

Authorities in Padang, West Sumatra are launching legal proceedings against a woman who was filmed dining at a crowded restaurant while defiantly exclaiming that she does not fear the c

Joniansyah Hardjono, Jakarta – State-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura II on Tuesday recorded significant decline in numbers of airline passenger after the enforcement of the 'emergen

Daniel Hurst – The Australian government has been urged to rapidly step up its assistance to Indonesia, amid warnings the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases is fuelling an "escalating crisis

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Community Consortium for Public Health in a written statement on Tuesday argues that the government has acted too slow in responding to the surge of Covid-19

Budiarti Putri Utami, Jakarta – Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) mitigation team head Mohammad Adib Khumaidi on Monday suggested the government to utilize the services of post-inter

M Rahim Arza, Hiyung, Indonesia – For the village cultivating Indonesia's most pungent chili pepper, July is a time of prosperity – and potential ruin.

Antara, Jakarta – At least 16 airports managed by state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura (AP) II have made available 3,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine for passengers per day.

The Semarang State University (Unnes) Student Executive Council (BEM) has joined in criticising the administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin.

Adi Kurniawan, Jakarta – Volunteer biker Sebastian Dwiyantoro and his team have been particularly busy helping ambulances navigate heavy traffic in Depok, West Java to get COVID-19 pati

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – University of Indonesia epidemiologist Pandu Riono on Sunday revealed that Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin had already req

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Coordinator of volunteer group LaporCovid-19, Said Fariz Hibban, said the group highly regrets the Health Ministry's response which they claim has played

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) epidemiologist Pandu Riono on Sunday suggests the disbandment of the COVID-19 handling committee and national economic recovery (KPC-

Syaharani Putri, Jakarta – Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno in his latest Instagram post plans on banning popular online game Fortnite, believing the game goes

Sania Mashabi, Jakarta – The initiator of the citizen data platform LaporCovid-19, Irma Hidayana, says that current the state of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia is because the govern

Jakarta – The government has decided to provide free telemedicine services to monitor Covid-19 patients who are self-isolating at home to ease the burden at overloaded hospitals across

If one were to measure the effectiveness of tightened measures under the Emergency Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (Emergency PPKM) by traffic density, one would likely

Jakarta – Harmoko, the information minister during the New Order Era who became the public face of the Soeharto regime, passed away on Sunday. He was 82.

Jakarta – Indonesia set its coal benchmark price at the highest in more than a decade, an official document published by its energy and minerals ministry showed on Monday, supported by

Indonesia's new no vax, no fly policy is sending foreign nationals in Bali into a frenzy, from anti-vaxxers condemning the move, to travelers who prefer to get the COVID jab in their ho

Rieka Rahadiana and Arys Aditya – Indonesia will start importing oxygen cylinders to meet surging demand from Covid-19 patients as the country battles a fresh wave of infections that ov

Emma Connors, Singapore/Jakarta – Tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases each day have forced the Indonesian government to suspend months of careful planning to reopen the economy as i

Rebecca Meckelburg – Local government and civil society responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia have been widely lauded in academic and popular media since the first Covid-19 ca

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – The fears that Indonesia was heading down the same path as India are beginning to come to pass in devastating fashion.

A devastating second wave of COVID-19 has led to desperation among many in Indonesia, to the point that this is as good a time as any to tout any random thing to be able to cure or prev

Semarang – The police, the Indonesian military (TNI) and Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officials broke up a "Week of Resistance" action held by the Greater Semarang Student Executive

Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia has ordered oxygen makers to prioritise medical needs amid growing demand from COVID-19 patients, the government said on Sunday, following more

Jakarta – Huawei Indonesia, the local arm of the Shenzhen-based tech giant Huawei, pledged continuous support for Bandung Institute of Technology, or ITB, in technology sharing, as the

Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Tabita Diela, Jakarta – The next two weeks are critical for the success of Indonesia's efforts to rein in the coronavirus, as infections could rise until Saturda

Hellena Souisa and Erwin Renaldi – Before he died, Mr Suherman said his father was consumed by coronavirus misinformation and "hoax messages" circulating on text messaging apps in his h

Antara, Jakarta – The government has set the ceiling price for drugs used in COVID-19 treatment through the issuance of Health Minister's Decree No. HK.01.07/MENKES/4826/2021.

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – Authorities are imposing stricter mobility curbs during the latest round COVID-19 restrictions, dubbed the emergency public activity restrictions (PPKM Darurat), i

Jakarta – Jentera Indonesia School of Law (STH) Student Executive Council (BEM) Chairperson Renie Aryandani says that the nickname "The King of Lip Service" alias "The King of Bragging"

Jakarta – Indonesia reported 27,913 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday to continue a record-breaking run in daily numbers since the first day of the month, as lockdown in stricken areas beg

Jessica Washington and Syarina Hasibuan, Jakarta – From morning until midnight, Suherman and his fellow carpenters work in the heat – sawing, sanding and painting.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The LaporCovid-19 (Report Covid-19) community and Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) reported that 265 Covid patients in self-isolation had succumbed to the

Jakarta – Renowned politician Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of founding father Sukarno, passed away on Saturday after being treated for Covid-19 for a week at a Jakarta hospita

Jakarta – The government imposed a partial lockdown Saturday in Jakarta, across the main island of Java and on Bali as Indonesia grapples with an unprecedented wave of coronavirus infec

News Agencies, Jakarta – The next two weeks will be a "critical time" for Indonesia, which is counting on new restrictions to bring surging coronavirus cases under control, a senior min

Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta – Standing outside the glass wall at one of the emergency installations in a hospital in Tangerang, Benten, Uta Verina Maukar, 26, looked at her mother a

Robert Campion – The highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading rapidly around the globe, is fuelling an unprecedented surge of cases among the more than 270

Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Griffith University Epidemiologist Dicky Budiman has questioned a statement by Coordinating Minister for Investment and Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjai

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Gemma Holliani Cahya – Indonesia is tripling its oxygen supplies to hospitals as data suggests the Delta variant of coronavirus is now driving the country's worsen

Lee Sue-Ann – A divisive debate has broken out in regional social media over the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19.

Indonesia's most populated and popular islands are bracing for emergency lockdown measures from this weekend, with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo touting the inevitability of shifting p

Times of emergency may have finally spurred authorities in Bali into ditching their nice guy playbook, with foreign nationals now subject to immediate deportation should they be caught

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The scenes in Indonesia's hospitals in the past week have been eerily similar to those in India two months ago – hospital corridors jammed with COVID-19 patients a

Novan, Jakarta – The health ministers of Denmark and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding five fields of health cooperation: basic health services, remote