Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police's traffic corps will officially limit the number of passengers allowed in a vehicle that is adamant to travel back to Indonesian rural areas

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Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Deputy chairman of the Indonesian Doctors Association (PB IDI) Slamet Budiarto revealed that one of the causes of Indonesia's high coronavirus (COVID-19

Antara, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Chief of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Hariyadi Sukamdani stated that he has received reports of 1,266 hotel

Mei Amelia R – A transgender woman named Mira has been burnt alive by a group of people in the Cilincing area of North Jakarta.

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Greater Jakarta has seen an uptick in domestic abuse reports in the first month of home-quarantining for the COVID-19 outbreak.

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – A government official revealed on Monday that the project to move the Indonesian capital from Jakarta to North Penajam Paser in East Kalimantan, which was expe

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government's decision to avoid imposing regional quarantine measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to inflict greater economic harm tha

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Economists are warning against roadblocks that will endanger the supply of staple food and push up prices as the Ramadan and Idul Fitri holiday season ap

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The number of workers that have been laid off and forced to take unpaid leave has reached 162,416 in the capital as more than 18,000 companies in the ci

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council declared Ahmad Riza Patria of the Gerindra Party as the Jakarta deputy governor-elect in a plenary meeting on Monday.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A 42-year-old farmer was mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger in the encroached forest area of Mount Leuser National Park in Langkat regency, North Sumatra over

Jakarta – The Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) has called on the government to increase healthcare capacities in regions outside Jakarta.

Made Anthony Iswara and Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's loan growth fell to a more than 10-year low in February as a cooling economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic hit credit demand

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has accused the central government of stonewalling his efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus by issuing a minister

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The government's COVID-19 fast response team has asked the Health Ministry to call on dentists and otolaryngologists to close their practices temporarily in or

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy is expected to grow by only 2.5 percent this year, from a four-year low of 5.02 percent in 2019, according to a new Asian Development

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Agus Wibowo says that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases the central government has been publishing di

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – As part of the aggressive effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the capital city, the Jakarta administration has instructed all residents to wear masks w

Riza Rodilla Mufti, Jakarta – Indonesia's tourism sector, the industry hardest-hit by COVID-19, is projected to take a long time to recover, although the pandemic is expected to slow d

Budi Sutrisno and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed his opposition to a plan to release graft inmates to help prevent COVID-19 transmission

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The National Police have decided to step up social media monitoring to conduct sweeping against what they deem to be slanders against the ruling government in

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Muhammad Syarifuddin has been elected as the new Supreme Court chief justice, replacing Muhammad Hatta Ali who previously served two terms and is due for

Newly released statistics on unemployment in Jakarta has come to reflect the huge economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had in the capital, with more than 30,000 losing their jobs ov

In the throes of the current Covid-19 crisis, world leaders are juggling a range of complex issues concerning the balance between public health and economic health, making decisive cho

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Only 36 in every million people are being tested for the coronavirus in Indonesia, making it the fourth worst in testing rate among countries with a 50

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's death toll from the novel coronavirus disease topped 200 on Monday, with the government voicing particular concern about transmission fro

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Two of Indonesia's largest mass Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, have advised people against participating in the annual Idul Fitri

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – State revenue is expected to nosedive this year as the government rolls out tax incentives, including corporate income tax cuts, amid the COVID-19 outbrea

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – International rating agencies are questioning Indonesian companies' ability to repay their debts and have consequently downgraded their ratings and outlooks ami

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – The government is facing scrutiny over its plan to grant inmates early release as part of its efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded correcti

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The long-winded search for a figure to fill the Jakarta deputy governor position came to an end on Monday after city councillors voted in Gerindra Party politic

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesian manufacturing output fell off a cliff in March as the government imposed stricter measures to contain the COVID-19, a survey has showed.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Grocery shoppers will no longer need to push a shopping cart around a supermarket during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hotman Siregar, Yusitnus Paat, Jakarta – Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, politician Riza Patria won an overwhelming majority of the votes in the Jakarta Legislative Counci

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police Headquarters (Mabes Polri) has officially issued a telegram containing law-enforcement guidelines in handling criminal activities

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – The Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy Agency reported on Sunday that 162,416 workers from a number of companies in the capital city were subjecte

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The National Police announced that it has acted upon three thousand people in East Java who violated the social restrictions amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pa

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Doni Monardo, the Chief of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 Task Force, announced today, April 6, that people violating rules noted in the large-scale so

Carlos Ky Paath, Carlos Roy Fajarta, Ari Supriyanti Rikin, Jakarta – The government is now telling Indonesians to wear some type of nose and mouth covering at all times in public place

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Some 50,000 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) COVID-19 test kits from South Korea are expected to arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Sunday

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Dian Septiari, Jakarta – As the world scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Indonesia is working to ensure that refugee

Antara, Muara Teweh – A flash flood swamped hundreds of houses in six villages in East Teweh Sub-district,, North Barito District, Central Kalimantan Province, after Teweh River overfl

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration's sluggish delivery of crucial social assistance funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak is putting the city's underprivileged cit

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – On April 1, Rajiman Sormin officially retired after 12 years as a mortician at Adam Malik Public Hospital in the Indonesian city of Medan.

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – When a 34-year-old doctor with COVID-19 passed away in Indonesia about two weeks ago, many were taken by surprise that a young adult had succumbed to the diseas

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has heavily criticized the Health Ministry's newly issued guidelines on large-scale social restrictions to curb the spread of

Yulia Savitri, Lahat, South Sumatra – Years of conflict between residents of Pagar Batu village and oil palm plantation company PT Artha Prigel in Lahat regency, South Sumatra, reached

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council is pressing ahead with its plan to select Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's deputy governor on Monday despite an extension of the city'