Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) will "intensify intervention" to stabilize the local financial market by buying government bonds and the rupiah amid heavy selling pre

Jakarta – Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Monday the government will ease rules on the import of capital goods to assist the economy amid a trade slowdown due

Arys Aditya – Bank Indonesia lowered banks' reserve requirement ratios, seeking to shore up liquidity after concerns over the economic impact of coronavirus triggered a selloff in the

Denpasar (AFP) – Bali's Galungan festival celebrates the triumph of good over evil, but a new enemy is threatening that cosmic balance this year – coronavirus.

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – The general secretary of the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), Anwar Abbas, says that the participants of the 7th Indonesian Islamic Ulama Congress see th

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has established a fast-response team to handle the fast-spreading and fatal respiratory coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the wa

Jakarta – Gas distribution company PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), part of state-owned oil and gas holding company Pertamina, will spend about US$2.5 billion on the construction of liq

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Headline inflation in Indonesia rose to 2.98 percent in February from 2.68 percent in January, driven by higher prices of garlic and cayenne, among other

Jakarta – The State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry has demanded a full assessment of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway project over environmental and human concerns.

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry is collaborating with more than 100 communities in Indonesia to run digital literacy programs nationwide.

Jakarta – Indonesia still deserves special treatment in global trade despite the United States recently taking the archipelago off its list of developing countries, local economists ha

Riska Rahman and Esther Samboh, Jakarta – Indonesia's stock index extended losses before reversing to gains on Monday morning trade, after a market rout sent the gauge to its worst mon

Beritasatu, Jakarta – Indonesia has confirmed two novel coronavirus cases in its territory after diagnosing two women living in Depok, a West Java suburb just outside Jakarta, who came

Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and its budget airline Citilink began implementing flight fare cuts on 10 tourist destination on Sunday to follo

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Calls are mounting for the government to form a national outbreak committee that involves experts to help the Health Ministry in the battle against the COVID

The House of Representatives (DPR) published in January its list of priority bills (National Legislative Program, Prolegnas) for 2020.

Beritasatu, Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The government revealed on Monday at least 48 people have been put under observation after coming into direct contact with the first two confirmed

Beritasatu, Jakarta – The Indonesia Stock Exchange, or IDX, stopped short selling at the local burse on Monday, seeking to stave off a further decline in the stock market caused by pan

Beritasatu, Jakarta – Inflation accelerated in February thanks to rising prices of cigarette and tobacco products, the Central Statistics Agency, or BPS, said on Monday.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) announced Monday five measures to stabilize the rupiah as foreign investors sold off Indonesian financial assets from stocks to bonds

Apriadi Gunawan, North Tapanuli, North Sumatra – Bukit Barisan Military Command (Kodam) 1 has removed Capt.

Antara, Jakarta – Vice President Ma'ruf Amin drew attention to the threat posed by radicalism and Islamophobia that can spur sectarian conflict in a country for which the government ha

Antara, Jakarta – The 7th Indonesian Muslim Congress (KUII) has urged President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to dissolve the Agency for Pancasila Ideology Education (BPIP) on the grounds it is

Antara, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) recorded 652 natural disasters that hit several parts of Indonesia in February 2020, left 123 people dead and two other

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Jakarta – The police have identified a National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan) employee, identified as SM, as the owner of the illegally possessed radioactive substances recovered from

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – A new report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) found that Islamic State (IS) supporters who were deported while trying to join t

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has issued a gubernatorial decree on increasing the capital's alertness in response to the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-1

Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Indonesia has the resources to cope with a coronavirus outbreak, the director of its leading infectious diseases hospital said, defending detection procedur

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Back in the 80s, Mr Sahro would peddle his kue putu – steamed rice flour cake filled with palm sugar and served with coconut shavings – door to door.

Antara, Jakarta – The Joko Widodo (Jokowi) administration has outlined a reduction in the stunting and poverty rates as among the key targets for 2020 under its priority program to hon

Antara, Jakarta – The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Office (BMKG) detected 11 hotspots indicative of forest fires along the coastal areas of Riau Province on Satur

Andi Saputra, Jakarta – The Lokataru Foundation conducted a survey of students on their attitudes towards the policies of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on the Draft Omnibus Law on Job

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – A national program to fill Indonesia's streets with more electric vehicles, or EVs, is still in its infancy, government officials have admitted, as regulations

Denpasar (AFP) – Hundreds of Chinese tourists on vacation in Bali are scrambling to avoid going home, fearing both infection from the deadly new coronavirus and Beijing's handling of t

James Massola, Jakarta – Passengers on an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai to Auckland, including a woman who was diagnosed with coronavirus on arrival in New Zealand, spent nearly

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Former British prime minister Tony Blair has said he is confident Indonesia's new capital city will be a special place, describing the capital relocat

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Philippine National Defense Department has expressed interest in buying combat vehicles from Indonesia's state-owned weapons manufacturer PT Pindad.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – A recent study has identified Jakarta as among the world's major metropolitan areas on the brink of sinking as a result of rising sea levels and extreme weathe

Jakarta – The Bekasi administration in West Java has planned to reevaluate the building permits for malls, apartments and warehouses located in areas that were hit by floods on Tuesday

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Okay, here's the deal.

Rikar Hussein, Ghita Intan, Washington/Jakarta – A recent decision by the government in Jakarta not to repatriate hundreds of its citizens suspected of membership in the Islamic State

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – New Zealand and Malaysian authorities reported on Friday that their latest patients infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus had been to Indonesia before getting

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – Several factors have contributed to the declining child marriage rate in Indonesia, but a lot more need to be done to enforce the law that protects girls from

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Java Jazz Festival has become an annual pilgrimage for many music fans in Indonesia, and not just for fans of jazz.

Beritasatu, Jakarta – The Indonesian government employs a transparent approach in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus and strictly follows World Health Organization procedur

While debate continues between the Indonesian Ministry of Health and researchers in Indonesia and internationally on Indonesia's capacity to detect and identify coronavirus infections,

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A number of Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel armed with rifles, allegedly assaulted the Pahae Julu Police headquarters in North Tapanuli regency, North Suma

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is involving three international consulting firms in developing the masterplan of the country's new capital city, which is t

We can't think of anything worse than being told to enjoy a disaster, but one Jakarta official's insensitive statement about this week's floods in the capital proved to be asinine driv