Jakarta – The government has extended its COVID-19 curbs on Java and Bali until Aug.

Maria Fatima Bona, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 2,048 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, the second time that the daily death toll has topped the 2,000 mark since t

Dili (Reuters) – Timor Leste has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, raising concerns by its health ministry abo

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans stricter measures to limit public mobility and gathering during the raging Covid-19 outbreak by requiring its citizens to show

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's capital Jakarta is set to ease Covid-19 curbs from Tuesday (Aug 10), allowing shopping malls and restaurants in the city to reopen with limi

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded the lowest number of newly Covid-19 cases since June 30 as the extended lockdown across Java and Bali entered the final day on Monday.

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – It was the evening after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on July 20 when Hambal M Zain began to run a fever.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin lifted the rule on the implementation of the Gotong Royong Covid-19 vaccine program for individuals.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Health Ministry revealed that the hospital bed occupancy rate (BOR) for Covid-19 patients in Java and Bali continued to improve.

Anne Barker and Lucia Stein – Experts fear Indonesia, considered one of the world's COVID-19 epicentres, is now a high-risk "hotspot" for the emergence of a new coronavirus "super strai

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A study has shown that Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine CoronaVac is 85 per cent effective against symptomatic illness and 92 per cent against hospitalisation

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Eight-year-old Alviano Dava Raharjo knew that his parents had been admitted to hospital in West Kutai, East Kalimantan, but he was puzzled why they had not com

Pribadi Wicaksono (Contributor), Yogyakarta – Following concerns over the COVID-19 Delta variant, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan asked

Pribadi Wicaksono (Contributor), Jakarta – The Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) on Thursday reported 59 deaths from Covid-19.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) Jakarta has opposed the Jakarta Provincial Government's plans to build a Waste Management Facility (FPSA) i

Yudha Baskoro, Bekasi – At least 50 persons with severe mental illness were vaccinated against Covid-19 in Bekasi on Wednesday.

Indonesia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has had its fair share of unique stories, but the story of an elderly woman in West Java going on a piggyback ride to get her jab is a reminder that

Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – The COVID-19 death rate for people in Jakarta who were not vaccinated was more than three times higher than those who were, according to new he

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia received reports that many health workers were intimidated for questioning the late distribution of their incentives.

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta Metro Police on Friday has increased their efforts to further restrict community mobility after they found waves of workers of non-essential a

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Health Ministry's Covid-19 vaccination spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi on Wednesday said the latest Google mobility report revealed a growing trend in c

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) report found that the Jakarta health agency failed to take a cheaper option in procuring N95 masks.

Jakarta – The month-long lockdown remains unable to significantly curb new infections of Covid-19 with daily figures beating the pre-lockdown level.

Bali is struggling coping with weak tracing efforts and individuals refusing to isolate, the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) said this week, with limited medical supply and facilit

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has urged people seeking third vaccine doses to be patient as the government prioritizes frontline medical workers.

Hengky Yeimo, Jayapura – Local governments in Papua – such as the Yapen Islands and Puncak administrations – say they are continuing to promote the benefits of covid-19 vaccines to indi

Caleb Quinley – Indonesia's health ministry has recorded 1,747 new deaths of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, pushing the nation's total deaths to 100,636.

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta – Indonesia surpassed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, a grim milestone in a country struggling with its worst pandemic wave fueled by the delta var

Arys Aditya – Indonesia is shifting away from its goal of reaching herd immunity for Covid-19 as the rise of the more infectious delta variant pushes the threshold beyond reach.

Rifki Nurfajri, Jakarta – Alumni Kanisius Menteng 64 (AM64) commenced the second phase of its free COVID-19 vaccine drive at the Jakarta Convention Center on Monday, following the initi

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Indonesian Covid-19 task force in a statement on Wednesday announced the dropping bed occupancy ratio (BOR) across isolation facilities in the past two weeks,

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia has reached a grim milestone as more than 100,000 people died from the coronavirus, becoming the second country in Asia to breach that threshold.

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's spending on fighting its ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, one of the world's worst, could exceed 300 trillion rupiah (S$28.3 billion) this year, the South-east

Jakarta – The United Kingdom has revealed a commitment to donate $1 million worth of critical healthcare equipment to Indonesia, where new Covid-19 cases and deaths are surging due to t

Antara, Jakarta – Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria on Wednesday said the number of deaths related to Covid-19 within the past two weeks is starting to fall.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An Indonesian bishop has hailed cooperation between a moderate Muslim organization and priests and nuns in his diocese which has allowed the smooth implementation

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Henny Sengkey Kawilarang knew her husband was badly ill with COVID-19 but when he lay on the couch at their house in Cisauk, about two hour

Wahyuni Sahara, Jakarta – Epidemiologist Dicky Budiman from Griffith University in Australia says that the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia is not yet properly under control.

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Indonesia is making preparations to double the daily number of Covid-19 vaccine jabs to 2 million per day, a target that should have been materialized

Expectant mothers in Indonesia can now get the COVID-19 vaccine after the Health Ministry updated its eligibility list to include the high-risk group.

Bloomberg – Most Indonesians cited a lack of available doses as the reason why they're not vaccinated against Covid-19.

Indonesia's devastating second coronavirus wave, which saw the South-East Asian country become the epicentre of Asia's COVID-19 outbreak, has peaked, its Health Minister says.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Moderna Covid-19 booster shots are exclusively for health workers, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced on Monday the current social restrictions have been extended by another week, citing their early success in curbing the spread of Covi

Antara, Jakarta – A specimen study has shown that the highly-contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has spread almost evenly throughout Indonesia, according to Siti Nadia Tarmizi,

Jakarta – Indonesia on Sunday received 3.5 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the US government, bringing the total doses donated by the United States to 8 million.

Nivell Rayda, Bogor, Indonesia – The sun was blazing hot when four volunteers from the local COVID-19 task force, draped in full personal protective gear, descended on a densely populat

Abbie O'Brien – The idle streets, vacant shops and deserted beaches across Bali are a sobering reminder of how the island has been devastated by the pandemic.

Antara, Jakarta – The number of active COVID-19 cases in Jakarta has dropped to 19,656 as of Saturday, July 31, 2021, according to data provided on the official government website, coro

Antara, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD has called for religious leaders support to' expedite COVID-19 vaccination drive in the count