Jakarta – The number of deaths from Covid-19 in India has soared following a religious celebration. Unfortunate result of populist decisions taken based on electoral interest.

Police estimate that at least 9,000 people have been swabbed with reused antigen rapid test kits at North Sumatra's Kualanamu Airport, in the latest development to the arrest of five la

Jakarta – There is no longer any need for the government to be responsible for research into the Nusantara vaccine being promoted by former Minister of Health Terawan Agus Putranto.

A month after being hit with devastating floods, Timor-Leste is struggling to cope amid a Covid-19 outbreak.

Firdia Lisnawati, Denpasar, Indonesia – A U.S.-based YouTuber and a Russian influencer were ordered off Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Friday after recording themselves defying ma

Foreign travelers headed for Bali were able to skirt around Indonesia's COVID-19 restrictions upon arrival, a number of social media posts showed this week, triggering a fresh wave of c

Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – Indonesia has received the equivalent of more than 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the last four days, including the first ever arrival of vaccine d

Jakarta – Food and Drug Supervisory Agency, or BPOM, has greenlighted the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm for emergency use in Indonesia, in a move

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Indonesia received the tenth batch delivery of COVID-19 vaccines at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport at 13:00 local time today, April 30.

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Head of the Jakarta Labor, Transmigration, and Energy Agency, Andri Yansah, on Wednesday said that the agency has taken steps that are hoped to curb the surge of C

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Indonesian Covid-19 task force announced on April 25 updated the risk zone map and recorded an increase in areas considered red zones (high risk) and yellow z

The Jakarta Metro Police has arrested one more suspect accused of receiving a bribe to help a traveler circumvent mandatory hotel quarantine, bringing the total number of suspects in th

Police have arrested employees at a Kimia Farma lab located at Kualanamu International Airport in North Sumatra, who allegedly reused antigen rapid test kits on customers to cut costs.

Imam Hamdi, Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy Office Head Andri Yansyah confirmed a recent surge in Covid-19 cases in office clusters.

A Jakarta official says the provincial government is struggling to enforce the work from home policy (WFH) in the city despite a worrying uptrend in the number of COVID-19 clusters from

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced that a new variant of COVID-19 that reportedly triggered a spike in cases in India had been detected in Indonesia.

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Provincial Government has called on the public to stay vigilant against COVID-19 transmission at workplaces as the number of workers exposed to the vir

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin confirmed on Monday at least 10 people have tested positive for a new variant of Covid-19 which was first

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) Managing Director, Ali Ghufron Mukti, said 82.3 percent of the total population has regist

Jakarta – Authorities have warned against the Covid-19 second wave in Indonesia, raising concerns that euphoria surrounding vaccination would cause people to drop their discipline in im

Joanito De Saojoao & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is unhappy with the growing number of politicians and other prominent figures voicing their support fo

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono reminded the Jakarta Provincial Government to be aware of Covid-19 transmission during Ramad

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati uses a simple presentation to provide some insight into the massive health spending related to Covid-19 on Monday.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Salesian Archbishop Virgilio Do Carmo da Silva of Dili has called on the people of Timor-Leste to participate in the government's vaccine program and adhere to hea

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has finally spoken up about the research of Nusantara vaccine development in Gatot Subroto Army Hospital (RSPAD).

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Indonesian authorities have defended the use of a locally developed COVID-19 breathalyser at airports and train stations despite fresh ques

Jakarta – Following the success of its vaccination program for the elderly in March, a group of Kolese Kanisius Catholic high school alumni in Menteng, Central Jakarta, plan to launch a

Hendro Situmorang, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia will speed up vaccination drive against Covid-19 after receiving another shipment of half-finished vaccine from China's Sinovac B

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Indonesian Covid-19 Task Force said that the number of red zone and orange zones for transmission Covid-19 risks has increased.

Ryan Dagur – Xanana Gusmao, Timor-Leste's independence hero and former prime minister and president, has been at the center of a protest demanding the release of the body of man who hea

Syailendra Persada, Jakarta – A number of House of Representatives (DPR) legislators plan to be vaccinated with the Nusantara vaccine – which has not passed local health agency inspecti

Beijing – Indonesia said on Monday (Apr 12) that it is satisfied with the effectiveness of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine it is using, after the acknowledgement by China's top disease

Arys Aditya – Indonesia will keep using the vaccines developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and U.K.'s AstraZeneca Plc.

Chris Barrett, Singapore – Devastated by natural disaster and in the grip of a COVID-19 outbreak, there is a new controversy in East Timor.

Jakarta – With COVID-19 infections showing no signs of abating more than a year since the global pandemic was declared, at least one community organization has joined the government in

Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – More than 10 million people in Indonesia have received at least one shot of Covid-19 vaccine with more than half already fully vaccinated, government figure

Nadia Woodhouse, Jakarta: "I had four children, but two of them died," Karimah said flatly.

Emma Connors, Singapore/Jakarta – A dwindling supply of COVID-19 vaccines has forced Indonesia to slow down its ambitious vaccination program and could affect plans to reopen schools th

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Health Ministry and the Indonesian Mosque Council (DMI) introduced Friday a program that designated mosques as COVID-19 vaccination hubs.

Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Indonesia is in talks with China on getting as many as 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to plug a gap in deliveries after delays in the arrivals of AstraZe

Jakarta – A lavish wedding of one of Indonesia's biggest YouTube stars, Atta Halilintar, costing 100 billion rupiah (S$9.2 million), has courted controversy, with questions raised on wh

Indonesia's Health Ministry said Jakarta has a fresh case involving a new strain of the coronavirus, which has a name that resembles an Indonesian word for poo.

Jakarta – The government has banned mudik, the annual exodus during the Idul Fitri holidays at the end of the Ramadan fasting month.

Antara, Jakarta – A total of 9,187,757 people in Indonesia have received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday, an increase of 212,391 compared to the day before, ac

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the upcoming rate of the Covid-19 vaccination distribution will not be as fast as before as the supply will drop due to a

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Timor-Leste announced the death of a woman from Covid-19 on April 6, its first recorded virus death, as it tries to stem a growing infection rate.

The Health Ministry says it is working closely with law enforcement to crack down on the reported spread of fake medical masks in Indonesia.

Questions are being asked about whether or not the rule of law applies equally to all citizens after President Joko Widodo attended a glitzy celebrity wedding when it has been so diffic

Bangun Santoso and Stephanus Aranditio – It was not just President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Antonio Sampaio, Dili – Hundreds of people, many of them students, mobbed exit routes out of the Timorese capital Dili on Good Friday seeking to leave the city to escape the difficultie