Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Agustinus Beo Da Costa – Oxygen prices in Jakarta had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in COVID-19 cases that pro

Antara, Jakarta – Jakarta's need for health workers continues to increase in line with the high number of Covid-19 cases in the capital city.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The number of Covid-19 cases among children in West Java was indeed the highest at 45,450, followed by Riau with 9,224 cases, Central Java with 6,654 cases, West

Jakarta – The rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia is proof of the weaknesses in the system to control the pandemic. There is a problem of leadership.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Indonesian government as of Wednesday, June 30, has received 14 million Sinovac bulk vaccines to boost the national vaccination program.

Yanuar Nugroho – The Jokowi government appears to be on the verge of imposing a hard lockdown to curb a second wave of Covid-19 infections.

Jakarta – Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has offered free vaccination against Covid-19 for its passengers on Wednesday in a move that would entice more people to get immunized while at t

Dean Baker – You might think so from reading this NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's Covid-19 surge is on the edge of a catastrophe as the more infectious Delta variant dominates transmission and chokes hospitals in South-east Asia's wors

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) said the number of doctors who died while treating Covid-19 patients increased significantly from May to June 2021.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to impose stricter restrictions starting Saturday (July 3), as South-east Asia's most populous country battles a second wave of coronavi

Jakarta – The National Food and Drug Control Agency, or BPOM, has given the green light to conduct clinical trials on the use of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to treat Covid-19 patient

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from Australia Griffith University, Dicky Budiman, opined that lockdown is the best option to contain Covid-19 cases which are currently skyrocket

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated on Friday that the scheduling change of cannabis and cannabis resin at the United Nations does not mean the lega

Negative results from PCR swab tests are now the only acceptable document for air travelers visiting Bali, Governor Wayan Koster announced today, with other not-so-reliable COVID-19 tes

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Indonesia's drug authority has approved children aged 12 and above being vaccinated as the south-east Asian nation confronts a frightening

Fardah Assegaf, Bogor – Some 336 healthcare workers contracted COVID-19 and fell ill, thereby leading to the Bogor municipality taking the decision to shut down eight health facilities,

Jakarta (Antara) – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said the coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in the capital had reached an average of 130,000 people daily.

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Wahyuni Sahara, Jakarta – A number of parties ranging from medical experts to politicians are urging the government to reapply large scale social restrictions (PSBB) or a lockdown to co

Hellena Souisa, Sastra Wijaya and Zena Chamas – The body of a man who died after testing positive for coronavirus lay in front of his house in North Jakarta for more than 12 hours befor

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Thirty doctors have died of Covid-19 so far this month in Indonesia, as the country battles a second wave of infections driven by the Delta variant, tri

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – It is only noon and the grave diggers at Rorotan cemetery have buried 23 bodies of Covid-19 patients since they started work at 7am.

COVID infections have surged in Indonesia, a nation of 270 million people, in the past week, with more than 2 million cases reported as of Saturday, and hospital occupancy rates soared

Jakarta (NY Times) – Dr Suhendro Sastrowiwoho was fully vaccinated and eager to help this month as Indonesia faced a new and deadly wave of Delta variant coronavirus cases.

Juli Hantoro, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan asked the capital city residents to stay home on Saturday and Sunday as the number of Covid-19 cases keeps rising.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has set a goal of administering 1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine per day starting on Saturday, with the president aiming to

Pribadi Wicaksono (Contributor), Yogyakarta – The Indonesian special region Yogyakarta revealed two serious issues it faces amid the rising Covid-19 case, namely transmission among chil

Max Lane – Indonesia's latest Covid-19 surge has piled pressure on the Widodo government, which is under pressure to reconsider some form of lockdown to rein in the spread of the corona

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Friday (Jun 25) that more hospitals and beds have been prepared in Jakarta to cope with another surge of

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Leaders of political parties joined in the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin coalition reportedly held a meeting on Wednesday evening, June 23.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo insists the micro-scale restriction on community activities, also known as PPKM Mikro, is still the best option available against the Covid-19 p

Jakarta – Indonesia has reported 20,574 new daily cases and 355 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, placing it among the top five countries with the highest daily number of cases worldwid

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia is converting more hospital beds to treat Covid-19 patients amid a surge in cases dominated by the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

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Stanley Widianto and Fransiska Nangoy (Reuters), Jakarta – Indonesia is shifting medical emergency units in Jakarta to tents outside hospitals to create more room for COVID-19 beds, the

The Bekasi General Hospital in Bekasi City, West Java was forced to treat patients in tents this morning, as patients kept coming despite the facility having reached its emergency unit

Novy Lumanaw, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called Indonesians to improve discipline in wearing masks and implementing health protocols to curb the Covid-19 spread, which

Adam Prireza, Lani Diana, Jakarta – Head of the Jakarta Parks and Forest Agency data center, Ivan Murcahyo, on Wednesday revealed that the capital city has logged in total 19,800 funera

Robert Campion – Indonesia's daily cases reached a record high on Monday as the country passed the mark of two million cases since the pandemic began.

Jessica Washington, Syarina Hasibuan and Jamaah, Jakarta/Kudus – It should have been a time of celebration for Puji Apriani's family – she was pregnant with her second child, and just w

Febriana Firdaus and agencies – Indonesian health authorities are battling a new surge in coronavirus infections, as the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) reported the high

Yudha Baskoro, Cianjur, West Java – Officials in a West Java subdistrict have turned to an uncommon tactic by offering a live chicken in exchange for an immunization shot to persuade th

Arys Aditya, Bekasi, Indonesia – Indonesia's Central Java province is imposing a stricter measure by locking down areas worst hit by Covid-19 in a bid to curb the spread of a more infec

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has been criss-crossing vaccination centres in Jakarta, keeping tabs on the national vaccination programme and rallying those in the capita

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta Financial Management Agency (BPKD) Head, Edi Sumantri, confirmed that the city's Parks and Forest Agency had to bury 146 bodies of COVID-19 pati

Those who have traveled to Bali, whether for a short getaway or to work from the island, are behind the recent spike of COVID-19 cases in Bali, the provincial task force said this week.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A weak zonal lockdown system and a lack of whole-genome-sequencing equipment to detect more transmissible new Covid-19 variants are the two main challen

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – The affordable antiparasitic drug Ivermectin is not a cure for Covid-19, according to State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir.

The body of a man who died after getting infected with the coronavirus was left lying for 14 hours in front of his house in North Jakarta's Sunter Agung area, illustrating the grim situ