Toru Takahashi, Bangkok – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is known for his gentle personality.

James Massola and Amilia Rosa – Indonesia has recorded a huge jump in daily coronavirus cases with 2657 new infections reported on Thursday.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has opened a complaint service at St.

Firdia Lisnawati, Denpasar – Indonesia's resort island of Bali partially reopened after a three-month virus lockdown Thursday, allowing local people and stranded foreign tourists to re

Jakarta – No wonder many people have dubbed fugitive tycoon Djoko Sugiharto Tjandra "Joker" as he has turned the Indonesian justice system into a laughing stock.

Police in Central Kalimantan have arrested a village chief and two village officials for alleged multiple rapes of a 17-year-old girl.

The world certainly needs more Mujenih.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The government will temporarily turn its preemployment card program, which included a mix of social assistance and up-skilling for laid off workers affected by

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesia has reported the highest daily rise of COVID-19 cases for two days in a row, with 2,657 cases recorded on Thursday, bringing the total number of i

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – State-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura I (AP I) recorded an increase in passenger numbers in early July after the government extended the expiry date for p

Mardika Parama and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – A lack of financing and the country's age-old issues with land acquisition have delayed the development of the government's strateg

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic is now threatening access to HIV/AIDS treatments, as countries, including Indonesia, are focusing on curbing the highly infectious

Jakarta – The number of people who died of Covid-19 in Indonesia is almost five times higher than the official total announced by the government.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has once again called on his Cabinet to accelerate and streamline bureaucratic procedures in mitigating the overarching imp

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Government announced on Wednesday that it would expand its Indonesia Smart Card (KIP) program to provide financial assistance to more university student

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina has reaffirmed plans to phase out pollutive fuels but a top executive has made clear that the company will not do so u

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Members of the public should reconsider decisions to travel to COVID-19 "green zones" despite the gradual reopening of tourism in such areas, an epidemiologist

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Indonesia's high rate of COVID-19 infection has not stopped people throughout the archipelago from refusing to be tested, largely because of employment concerns

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Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Two resident doctors from Airlangga University (Unair) in Indonesia's COVID-19 epicenter – Surabaya, East Java – had been on track to wrap up years of studie

Jakarta – A top official at the National Police's internal affairs division revealed that a large number of East Java Police officers had been reported for marital infidelity.

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Indonesian consumers remain anxious about embarking on the so-called "new normal" as shown in a continued reluctance to go out despite the easing of trave

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia is becoming a hot spot for global technology companies keen to get into one of Asia's fastest-growing data markets, where e-commerce and food deliver

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry and Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry have released joint guidelines for the cultural and creative industries as they re

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Indonesia will benefit from the diversification of the global supply chain as multinational companies are looking into ways to reduce reliance on China to

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Businesses that manage large quantities of the public's data have asked the House of Representatives not to regulate anonymized data in the personal data prote

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has called on the government to reassess the controversial omnibus bill on job creation, particularly in regard to prov

Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry is drafting a regulation to protect the safety of bicyclists as the activity becomes increasingly popular amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Indonesian tourism hotspots Jakarta and Bali are preparing to welcome meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition (MICE) events as part of the provinces' to

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) senior investigator Novel Baswedan's advocacy team has urged the National Police to investigate an alleged profe

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's bureaucratic red tape is preventing almost US$50 billion (S$69.8 billion) in fiscal support from being disbursed to virus-hit businesses and healthcar

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Everyone has the right to an education, they say, but if you are a transwoman student, living in Indonesia, going to college can be a difficult and pain

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Dramatic footages of grieving families snatching the bodies of Covid-19 patients continued to appear on news broadcasts, painting a grim picture of the co

Jakarta – The decision by Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Edhy Prabowo opening the door to exports of lobster larvae is a grave error.

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Almost 15,000 workers have been laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tangerang, Banten, Tangerang Regent Ahmed Zaki Iskandar has stated.

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has issued a circular setting a price ceiling of Rp 150,000 (US$10.41) for COVID-19 rapid tests, following numerous complaints over th

Jakarta – The Australian government will provide A$2.2 million (Rp 22.1 billion) for the disaster management agencies of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahd

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia announced 1,853 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day increase since the emergence of its first cases in early March, bringing the

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's retail sales index contracted by 20.6 percent in May, the biggest dive since 2008, dragged by plunging clothes sales, as well as cultural and

Carlos Roy Fajarta, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – More than 42,000 Indonesian migrant workers have arrived in Greater Jakarta via Soekarno-Hatta Airport and Tanjung Priok Port as

Elaine Pearson – A new dress code for female civil servants in Indonesia's Central Lombok regency should concern all Indonesians.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government and Bank Indonesia (BI) agreed to a burden-sharing scheme worth Rp 574.59 trillion (US$39.7 billion) on Monday to finance the nation's COVI

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign exchange (forex) reserves increased to US$131.7 billion in June following the government's move to issue global sukuk (sharia complian

Jakarta – A 14-year-old rape survivor from Way Jepara, East Lampung regency, Lampung was allegedly raped and sexually abused multiple times by the head of a women's shelter run by the

Sausan Atika and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The emergence of new COVID-19 cases in Jakarta, the first national epicenter of the outbreak, is showing no signs of slowing down despite cl

Hengky Ola Sura, Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara – Award-winning author Felix K.

Chairul Fikri, Jakarta – An Indonesian migrant worker on death row for murder conviction in Saudi Arabia was released after she paid Rp 15.5 billion ($1 million) in blood money to the

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The Indonesian government and industry players are gearing up to boost export of key products to neighboring Australia, amid slowing trade during the

Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has said the government will not be opening recruitment for regular civil servant candidates (CPNS) in 2020 and

Rebecca Ratcliffe – Indonesia's agriculture minister has been condemned by health experts for claiming that a necklace made from eucalyptus can help prevent transmission of Covid-19.