Jakarta – The Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) of Bogor has requested the central government to vaccinate teachers prior to school reopening.

Lily Wakefield – A former policeman in Indonesia is suing the country's police force for wrongful dismissal over his sexuality, in a landmark case in the conservative nation.

Bandung – State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma has allocated 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine final product made by China's Sinovac Biotech for health workers in the count

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded the highest daily death toll in the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, when the country also extended the longest run of three-digit deaths

Andi Hajramurni and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Makassar – The exposure of a number of regional election candidates and current leaders to COVID-19 has somewhat marred this year's celebration

Jakarta – The son and son-in-law of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo won mayoral elections in their respective city on Wednesday, according to quick count results by credible research age

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said on Tuesday (Dec 8) that interim data on trials it was conducting on vaccines produced by the Chinese co

Riska Rahman and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/West Java – The Financial Services Authority (OJK) expects the newly passed Job Creation Law to help spur the issuance of municipal bonds and sukuk a

Jakarta – National COVID-19 task force chief Doni Monardol has advised the public to remain at home during the year-end holidays due to potential extreme weather in the next two to thre

Jakarta – The government must check the readiness of each school throughout the country before embarking on the controversial school reopening plan amid the recent spike in new COVID-19

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The residents of two villages in Jambi who have suffered recurring fire disasters have welcomed La Nina's arrival to the province, which has brought additional rain

Resty Woro Yuniar (South China Morning Post) – More than 100 million people are eligible to vote in Indonesia's regional elections on Wednesday (Dec 2), making it one of the largest suc

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Tomorrow more than 106 million Indonesians will vote for elect nine governors, 224 municipal regents and 37 mayors.

Hendartyo Hanggi, M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, on Monday urged for the police institution's transparency in reporti

Ben Bland – The children of five of Indonesia's first six presidents followed their parents into politics, reflecting the dynastic power that permeates much of Asia.

Sandiaga Uno has contracted COVID-19, the politician confirmed, shortly after his wife tested positive for the disease.

What would have been a crucial piece of evidence in the alleged shootout between the police and members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road simply doe

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) on Tuesday strongly criticized the fatal shooting by police personnel against six members of

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) is determined to provide a way for self-isolating and hospitalized people with COVID-19 to exercise their voting rights in the simultane

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga saw signs of recovery in its operations and finance nearing the end of the year, following the loosening

Farouk Arnaz & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian Police on Tuesday welcomed a plan by the National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, to launch probe into the killin

Jakarta – Hundreds of polling station officers across 12 regencies and cities in South Sulawesi have shown reactive results after taking COVID-19 rapid tests ahead of the simultaneous r

Rizki Fachriansyah, Budi Sutrisno and Nina A.

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has extended the transitional period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for another two weeks starting Monday until Dec.

Tan Jia Ning, Singapore – Pollsters in Indonesia have been unerring since direct presidential elections were introduced in 2004.

James Massola – The arrival of 1.2 million Sinovac vaccines in Jakarta is, for President Joko Widodo, desperately welcome news given his country has been hit harder by COVID-19 than any

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia has spent Rp 637.3 billion (US$45 million) to procure a coronavirus vaccine from China as the government prepares for a mass vaccination program.

A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – On Nov.

Jakarta – An expert has expressed his concerns over public resistance to a future COVID-19 immunization program caused by hoaxes surrounding the vaccines being developed.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government on Friday released a shipment of exports worth US$1.64 billion by 133 large and small businesses to seek alternative markets and to rev

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have shot dead six people thought to be supporters of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab in response to a purported attack

Rizki Fachriansyah and Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – Indonesia's ongoing battle against corruption appears to be making little headway as fewer people expressed enthusiasm for the government

Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has urged the government to cancel school reopening in January 2021 if the regional elections will go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday,

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Six people believed to be members of hardline group Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, were killed in a highway shootout just after midnight on Monday, police

Anwar Siswadi (Contributor), Jakarta – Fatigue has struck doctors and nurses working amidst the COVID-19 pandemic that has lasted for 9-months so far in Indonesia, the same is experienc

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Dewi Anggraeni on Monday said the suspect naming of Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara by the Corruption Eradic

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The surge in coronavirus cases continues in West Java where daily numbers have been reaching four digits for the last three days, putting them on a par with t

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – The first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech has arrived in Indonesia, but the government still has to wait for emergency u

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has appointed three new spokespersons for COVID-19 procurement and vaccination affairs following the arrival on Sunday of 1.2 million doses of a cand

Jakarta – As a COVID-19 survivor, gynecologist Ulul Albab describes the disease as a wake-up call for him to pay more attention to his body.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has reported an update on COVID-19 fatalities in medical and health workers, with a total of 342 deaths, almost nine months after Indo

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's social affairs minister turned himself in to anti-corruption authorities on Sunday to face charges of taking bribes related to the government's COV

Fana Suparman, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara has turned himself in on Sunday after the anti-corruption agency named him as a suspect

Jakarta – It has been over nine months since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first COVID-19 cases in Indonesia in March, but the country has yet to see much improvement in

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara has been named a suspect in a graft case involving the distribution of COVID-19 social aid.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – An angry President Joko Widodo rebuked Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara on Sunday for allegedly stealing funds from the humanitarian assistance

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara was named a corruption suspect on Sunday for allegedly collecting fees from the Rp 5.9 trillion ($416 million) wo

Antara, Jakarta – The National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) has named West Sumatra gubernatorial candidate Mulyadi as a suspect in a case pertaining to violati

Antara, Jakarta – As many as 313 flood victims from Tanjung Selamat village, Sunggal sub-district, Deli Serdang district, North Sumatra, are currently lodged at two command posts set up

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 6,089 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday to bring the total number of cases to 575,796, as the struggle to contain the outbreak continues a