Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is set to pass the health bill into law despite opposition from organizations such as the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI).

Nivell Rayda, Cianjur, Indonesia – They are seen as wasteful trash by many, but for some residents of a small city in the Indonesian province of West Java, empty plastic bottles are vie

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially inaugurated Tzu Chi Hospital in the prestigious Pantai Indah Kapuk area of North Jakarta on Wednesday.

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M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has once again called for Indonesians to avert seeking health treatments overseas in a public forum.

Mohamad Said, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Wednesday his government will soon declare Covid-19 as an endemic, thus ending the pandemic status which has haunted the c

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – With average temperatures expected to rise with the return of the El Nino climate pattern to Indonesia, the Health Ministry has warned about a rising threa

Singgih Wiryono, Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Muhammad Isnur says that the drafting of the Draft Law on Healthcare (RUU Kesehatan) is almost the same as

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ministry of Health advised everyone to be aware of the impact of El Nino.

In case you missed it, Indonesia on Friday all but lifted requirements to wear masks in public, marking an official end to a mandate that had been in place since the onset of the COVID-

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The government has issued a warning against the danger of rabies infection in humans, which has killed nearly a dozen people this year amid an uptick in the numbe

Tika Ayu, Jakarta – Five representatives of health professional organizations held a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR) regarding the demand for rejection of the deliberati

Jakarta – Hundreds of doctors and nurses on Monday urged lawmakers to halt discussions on proposed revisions to healthcare laws that they said would dilute protections for medical pract

Jakarta – Hundreds of Indonesian doctors and nurses on Monday urged lawmakers to halt discussions on proposed revisions to healthcare laws that they said would dilute protections for me

A Christian-majority province in Indonesia is struggling to prevent a rabies outbreak from spreading, raising alarm in the neighboring Catholic-majority country of Timor-Leste.

Antara, Jakarta – The Ministry of Health is aiming to eliminate rabies in humans due to dog bite in Indonesia by 2030 through continuous mass dog vaccination, the ministry's Communicabl

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has scrapped a complex set of rules prescribing which vaccine brands were to be used at which stages of the COVID-19 vaccination regimen, opti

Fana F Suparman, Jakarta – Indonesia ranks second for the world's most tuberculosis cases after India, according to PPTI, an Indonesian organization focusing on fighting the disease.

Jakarta – Few would still remember when an article from 2009 that classified tobacco as an addictive substance was removed from the final draft of the health bill that would be signed b

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Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Iran promised to help Indonesia modernize its healthcare with surgical robots during a meeting between the leaders of the two countries in Bogor on Tuesday

Fadli, Batam – The Agricultural Quarantine Agency has limited the local supply of pigs following a finding of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in Batam.

Jakarta – The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 pandemic no longer a global health emergency, but it is too early to celebrate.

Fadli, Jakarta – The Riau Islands has rejected a report by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) on an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) on a pig farm in the province.

Indonesia is still in a COVID-19 health emergency even though the World Health Organization (WHO) has lifted the global status of the disease.

Agnes Valentina Christa, Jakarta – The number of medical workers' organizations supportive of the health bill keeps increasing despite a recent major rally opposing the bill.

Indonesia has reported an outbreak of African swine fever on a farm on the Riau Islands near Singapore, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday.

Agnes Valentina Christa, Jakarta – The government recently told disapproving healthcare professional organizations that the omnibus health bill had already accommodated their aspiration

M Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – The Metro Jaya Police has called for road users in the capital city to avoid passing the Arjuna Wiwaha Horse Statue in Central Jakarta, beside the National Monume

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Jakarta – Thousand of healthcare workers comprising doctors, nurses and midwives demonstrated in Jakarta on Monday May 8 against the Draft Healthcare Law (RUU Kesehatan).

Maria Fransisca Lahur, Jakarta – The Indonesian Health Ministry welcomes the revocation of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) status for Covid-19 by the World

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Theresia Sufa, Bogor, West Java – The Bogor administration in West Java reported a total of 2,001 children are at risk of stunted growth in the municipality, which shares borders with J

Mirza Bagaskara, Jakarta – Indonesian Health Ministry urges the public to get a second COVID-19 booster vaccination amid the current spike in cases.

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – COVID-19 cases continued their upward trend in Jakarta over the past week due to the Arcturus variant.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Pigs on an Indonesian farm that supplied livestock to Singapore were confirmed to have been infected with the African swine fever virus, the Indonesian authori

Jakarta – The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) announced on Thursday that one Indomie instant noodle variant that was banned in Taiwan and Malaysia for containing carcinogenic sub

BeritaSatu, Jakarta – Food manufacturing giant Indofood Sukses Makmur announced that the company would soon clarify Taiwan's allegations of a cancer-inducing substance found on its nood

Fadli, Batam – The Agriculture Ministry's Bukit Tinggi Veterinary Center has deployed officers to examine pig samples from a company's farm on Bulan Island in Batam, Riau Island.

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – A recent uptick in the country's daily COVID-19 caseload and the discovery of more people infected with the new Arcturus strain are no cause for concern just yet,

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) detected 16,700 links on e-commerce and social media platforms selling food products without distribution permits.

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Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) urged the government to stop the discussion on the Health Bill and seriously consider the massive rejection of the bi

Jayapura, Jubi – Secretary of the Papua Provincial Health Office Aaron Rumainum said the number of specialists in Papua Province was sufficient but their distribution to nine regencies

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry is planning to earmark up to Rp 200.8 trillion ($13.4 billion) for the 2024 healthcare budget, as the government gets increasingly con

Andi Firdaus, Fadhli Ruhman, Jakarta – At least 13 existing health laws will be affected by the 2023 Health Bill, the Health Minister's health law expert staff Sundoyo said during an FM

Jakarta – The government has decided to maintain the health emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic at least until May 2023.

Antara, Jakarta – Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture has urged parents to complete their children's basic immunization to create a quality generation.

Mitra Tarigan, Jakarta – Indonesia is still in an ongoing war with Tuberculosis (TB).