Antara, Jakarta – The government's latest public housing savings program (Tapera), necessitating employees and employers to contribute to a mandatory mortgage loan scheme, may boost wo

Antara, Jakarta – Civil servants in Dayun Sub-district, Siak District, Riau Province, have begun wearing a distance-sensor device around their neck to maintain physical distancing at t

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Social media users have aired their collective disappointment and bewilderment at the one-year prison sentence demanded for police officers who allegedly

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo reiterated following a jog with Indonesian Military (TNI) chiefs of staff on Sunday that the TNI's role is to ensure that health protocols are f

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – As offices, shops and public facilities in the capital reopen amid the loosening of social restrictions that had been enacted to contain the COVID-19 ou

Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Director Asfinawati says that there are three indications of authoritarianism which are still being displayed by th

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 1,014 on Saturday, the fourth time the country saw more than 1,000 daily cases this week sin

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The West Java administration has extended large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) across the province to June 26 following a spike in COVID-19 cases within a we

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Jakarta – A majority of people feel the government does not care enough about the welfare of the nation's veterans, according to a poll conducted by Kompas daily.

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Jakarta will gradually reopen its public green spaces, including parks, city forests, cemeteries and zoos, to residents starting Saturday.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Workers are still facing harassment from superiors and colleagues through communication platforms while working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak, acco

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Businesspeople in the country are waiting for the government to announce a new economic strategy and guidelines amid its policy to relax COVID-19-related restr

Michael Taylor, Kuala Lumpur (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A social protection scheme to help poor Indonesians living in rural areas by giving them cash also reduced deforestation by

Jakarta – Indonesian Human Rights Watch group Imparsial is asking the government to review the planned involvement of active TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (Indonesian police) off

Online feminist newsgroups, Magdalene and Konde.co experienced a range of digital attacks in the last month.

Agnes Anya, Magelang – Teacher Henrikus Suroto vowed his students wouldn't be cheated out of their education when the global pandemic forced schools to be closed in Indonesia's remote

Maikel Jefriando and Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to build one of its largest industrial parks on the north coast of Java island in a renewed drive to attract manufacturer

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Online feminist publication Magdalene.co has suffered a series of cyberattacks over the past month, which has made it difficult for readers to access th

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Makassar (AFP) – Indonesian hospitals are beefing up security at their morgues after a spate of body-snatchings by relatives seeking traditional burials for family members who died of

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) and the Press Council have questioned proposed revisions to the Press Law under the omnibus bill on job creation.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Election organizers and regional administrations have requested extra funds from the state budget for the 2020 simultaneous regional elections as the central g

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Jakarta – The Bone River in Gorontalo breached its banks on Thursday, inundating swaths of Bone Bolango regency as well as the northern part of Gorontalo city.

Apriza Pinandita and Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi announced on Thursday that there were at least 311 foreign nationals infected with COVID-19 i

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – "Sir/Ma'am, I'm deaf. I cannot read your lips because you're wearing a mask. I'm here to withdraw my money. Please write down what I need to do.

Abdul Mu'ti, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo invited leaders of Indonesia's religious organizations to discuss government policies for easing the COVID-19 pandemic on June.

Ikhwan Hastanto – On Monday morning, in a pre-dawn raid, Indonesian counterterrorism authorities arrested a 31-year-old man, identified only by the initials A.M.

Jakarta – Indonesian stocks plunged deep in the red on Friday morning following a market rout seen by Wall Street in Thursday's session as investors grew wary of a second wave of the c

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Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – State-owned train operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) will restart operations of 14 long-distance and 23 local passenger train services on Friday after shut

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – An Indonesian priest based in the United States has caused a stir on social media because of a speech he made during a recent Black Lives Matter protest t

Triyan Pangastuti, Dion Bisara, Jakarta – A second wave of Covid-19 would derail Indonesia's path to recovering its economy by next year, with unemployment and income losses holding ba

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Improved testing capacity and more aggressive contact tracing have led to a spike in confirmed cases of coronavirus recently, an expert s

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has cut the board of directors of state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina from 11 positions to six, a leaked document shows, in a continued cam

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Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Social media users, known in Indonesia as "buzzers", have steered discourse in Indonesia following customer complaints against state-owned electricity firm PLN

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – A group has submitted a challenge to the Constitutional Court against a regulation recently issued by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo postponing this year's

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesian consumers grew deeply pessimistic in May as pandemic-related layoffs eroded people's confidence in the economy, a Bank Indonesia (BI) survey ha

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – State-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura II (AP II) has recorded a jump in the number of passengers for both domestic and international flights, as the gover

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus increased by 1,111 in Indonesia on Friday to bring the total number of infections in the country to 36,406.

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – Researchers from Airlangga University, Government's Covid-19 Task Force, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) have claimed to have found combinations of medici

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Activists have lambasted the Central Jakarta District Court's decision to postpone the interlocutory hearing of the landmark air pollution lawsuit they file

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The number of fatalities linked to COVID-19 in Indonesia reached 2,000 on Thursday, as the number of confirmed cases continues to rise amid plans by the cen

Jakarta – Four Jayapura Police detainees who were in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 have escaped from the Bhayangkara Police Hospital in Jayapura, Papua.

Joe Cochrane – The coronavirus pandemic has been devastating for Indonesia's economy.

Jakarta – Physical distancing to curb the spread of COVID-19 while on the roads can be difficult, especially as people's mobility increases with the easing of restrictions, but officia

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Consumers have criticized state-owned electricity firm PLN for a significant spike in electricity bills in June resulting from a new billing method and increa

The odd-even traffic rule has been suspended for as long as the Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) protocol has been in effect in Jakarta, and it is set to remain that way despite