Tsarina Maharani, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Security and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD has responded to the polemic about political dynasties in the 2020 election of regio

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The World Health Organization (WHO) Indonesia Office stated that the agency did not recommend the COVID-19 rapid antibody test as a requirement to travel, citi

John McBeth, Jakarta – Retired general turned businessman and politician, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Panjaitan may cut a controversial profile, but

Jakarta – A number of state-owned companies have moved into the app-based logistics business. This is at odds with the Business Competition Law.

Antara, Jakarta – A resident of West Kalimantan, Badau District – located in the border of Indonesia and Malaysia – had grabbed public attention after the mid 40s man took selfie photos

Wintang Warastri, Jakarta – Public defender Azas Tigor Nainggolan criticized the social punishment handed to COVID-19 health protocol violators – which involves placing a person inside

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Jakarta State University (UNJ) lecturers alliance on Friday demands for campus officials to cancel granting the honorary title to Vice President Ma'ruf Amin

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The leading expert at the Presidential Staff Office (KSP), Donny Gahral Adian, strongly denies rumors suggesting that the Presidential Palace had organized 'buzze

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Medan District Court in North Sumatra has been declared a COVID-19 cluster after 38 staff members and judges, including the head of the court, Sutio Jumagi

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Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government will need to increase its budget for health care next year if it wants to provide a coronavirus vaccine for all Indonesians, with vaccinatio

Jakarta – The Executive Office of the President has denied using so-called "buzzers" to support the government and its policies, claiming that it only hires social media influencers to

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration plans to add 11 COVID-19 reference hospitals as cases continue to rise in the capital.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity giant PLN estimates that Indonesia needs more than 31,000 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations by 2030 to reach government goals

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi has asserted that Indonesia will not be the military base for any foreign country, including China, following a report from th

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Emma Powys Maurice – Nine men in Indonesia are facing fines and up to 15 years in jail after police raided a "gay party" in a Jakarta hotel.

A group of lecturers at Jakarta State University (UNJ) have voiced their opposition to the university's plan to award honorary doctorates to Vice President Ma'ruf Amin and State-Owned E

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The surge in coronavirus cases has reached a new level in Indonesia with daily rises averaging over 3,000 as the country is heading into what seems to be the

The East Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) will stop imposing the sanction of forcing any residents caught not wearing face masks in public to lie in a fake coffin.

More than 139,000 people in Jakarta have been sanctioned for not wearing masks in public during transitional large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) from June to September, the city admi

Authorities in West Sumatra are investigating a video in which a woman was stripped and paraded by a mob in Pasaman regency this week.

Tris Reid-Smith – Indonesian police arrested 56 men in a raid on a 'gay' party and have charged nine of them under pornography laws.

Matt Moore – Jakarta Police have arrested over 50 men at an apartment in Kuningan, South Jakarta, after raiding an alleged 'gay party'.

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named NasDem politician Andi Irfan Jaya a new suspect in a bribery case implicating prosecutor Pinangki Sirna Malasari and detained him

Jakarta – Authorities have named 29 Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel suspects over an attack on the Ciracas Police Station in East Jakarta and the destruction of public property on S

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Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has nominated Surabaya Development Planning Board head Eri Cahyadi and East Java Representative Council

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Jakarta – Arif Susanto, a political analyst from the think tank Exposit Strategic, has criticised Presidential Chief of Staff Expert Donny Gahral Adian who said recently that buzzers ar

Palupi Annisa Auliani (editor) – The threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has distracted public attention.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A protected Sumatran tiger was found rotting last week in a forest in Siak regency, Riau. A wire snare was found around its neck.

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – The government is set to change the mechanism for several social safety net (SSN) programs because of the poor disbursement of aid.

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Jakarta – The National COVID-19 task force has called on the Jakarta administration to evaluate the odd-even license plate policy currently in force, as it has caused a spike in the num

Andra Nasrie – Indonesia has taken its obsession with deathly elements in its fight against COVID-19 to another level after Jakarta introduced a new punishment for mask violators.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has ordered state-owned electricity company PLN to lower the electricity rates for all homes and certain businesses to boost the pandemic-hit ec

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Jakarta will host the annual National Press Day celebration on Feb. 9 next year, Governor Anies Baswedan announced on Wednesday.

Heru Andriyanto & Carlos Roy Fajarta, Jakarta – Indonesia reported a dramatic surge in confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday, with 3,622 new infections to take the country's to

Jayanty Nada Shofa & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's plan to ban self-isolation for Covid-19 patients regardless of their symptom severity has divided opi

Jakarta – Recent research has shown that many members of the public in Jakarta and East Java assume they are immune to COVID-19 or even doubt there is a pandemic at all, COVID-19 task f

Alya Nurbaiti and Ardilla Syakriah, Jakarta – Indonesia is reportedly among the countries with the highest COVID-19 death rate among children, surpassing the United States, the world's

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – In a country battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of economics and public health, the government appears to be pinning its hopes on vaccine develo

Simon Butt – On 1 September, Indonesia's national legislature (DPR) passed amendments to the Constitutional Court Law.

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) spokesman, Handi Risza, resented the statement made by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) chairperson Puan Mah

Antara, Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry's observation of the ambient air quality shows that Bekasi City's average air particles smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) from Jan

Jakarta – Two members of the House of Representatives intervene in an investigation into the smuggling of textiles being carried out by the Attorney General's Office.

Jakarta – The police will suspend any criminal investigations involving potential or registered candidates running in the 2020 regional elections in December, according to a telegram is

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – The government, the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police need to make a serious effort to settle years of rivalry between the security and law and

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has collected around Rp 4 billion (US$271,000) in fines from residents violating COVID-19 health protocols under Gubernatorial Regulation No.