Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Dikanaya Tarahita – The confirmation on Monday that Indonesia had two cases of the coronavirus ended weeks of insistence by officials that the country had

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police seized 350 boxes of face masks during a raid on the residence of a suspected hoarder in Tanjung Duren, Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta in the wake of panic

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The neighbors of Indonesia's first two COVID-19 patients have urged broadcast media to stop the live coverage of their housing complex in Depok, West Java.

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulama Council or MUI has issued an order for Muslims in Indonesia to avoid mass gatherings, including tabligh akbar or public lectures and other co

Fadli, Batam – Two men in Batam, Riau Islands, who had been in close contact with a Singaporean COVID-19 patient have evaded quarantine, the city's health authorities said on Tuesday.

Jakarta – While many Jakartans flocked to convenience stores to stock up on medical supplies after the announcement of the country's first coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, many pe

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has said it will now assign its regional labs to test people suspected of carrying the novel coronavirus amid concerns that it has n

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Indonesia's first two confirmed COVID-19 patients say media coverage and discourse on social media have taken a greater toll than the disease itself, saying

Hengky Ola Sura, Maumere – Eleven people have died due to dengue fever in Sikka regency, East Nusa Tenggara, while up to 1,057 people have been infected since the beginning of the year

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The government has been working on new policies that will allow it to foot Covid-19 patients' hospital bills, something that would come as a relief for a worried

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Panic buying hit supermarkets and drugstores across Jakarta on March 2 following President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's announcement on the country's first two confir

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration will reduce the number of mass gatherings as a precaution after two residents of Depok, West Java – located on the outskirts of the c

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's retail and shopping center associations were urging consumer restraint after news about the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia triggered pan

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Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives have demanded that the government enact stronger coronavirus containment measures following the confirmation of two cases of the novel

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

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 – 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

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

Rebecca Ratcliffe – Two Indonesian citizens have tested positive for the new coronavirus after being in contact with an infected Japanese national, the country's president said on Mond

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

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

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

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

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

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James Massola – Indonesian authorities have defended their handling of the coronavirus epidemic after Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison cast significant doubt over Indonesia's

Jakarta – As SARS-Cov-2 swiftly spreads across the globe, infecting thousands of people from Singapore to Northern Ireland, Indonesian Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto, a devout C

Adam Prireza, Galuh Kurnia Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Police has revealed an illegal face mask production at a warehouse in North Jakarta on Thursday, February 27, 2020.

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

Jakarta – Almost 1,700 Indonesian nationals have been stranded in a number of transit countries by Saudi Arabia's decision to temporarily ban all foreign umrah (minor haj) pilgrims fro

Fadli and Ivany Atina Arbi, Batam – Concerns about how the Indonesian government is handling the novel coronavirus outbreak have grown as none of the 132 Indonesian lab tests for the v

Muslim-majority Indonesia is dismayed by news that Saudi Arabia has temporarily closed its borders to Umrah pilgrims amid fears of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but the government sa

James Massola, Jakarta – US diplomats have expressed concerns to top Indonesian government officials about their country's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, warning of the "critica

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Jakarta – A joint team from the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) and the National Police has discovered illegally owned radioactive substances in a house in the Batan Indah h

David Gee – Indonesia, which has the world's largest population of Muslims and a history of discriminating against atheists, is encouraging its citizens to pray as protection from the

Jakarta – An Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) commissioner has apologized for claiming that women could get pregnant from swimming in the same pool as men.

Indonesians are calling for the resignation of an official who made quite a splash in the country by saying that women can get pregnant by swimming in a pool with men.

Jakarta – Amid the global COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people around the world, Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto says that the disease has opened

Imagine that instead of keeping germs out, the face mask you're wearing exposes you to a plethora of diseases due to the unhygienic way it was packaged.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – A controversial bill on family resilience recently proposed by members of the House of Representatives is expected to cause controversy as it contains a n

Barita News Lumbanbatu, Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Authorities in Indonesia have launched an investigation following the discovery of radioactive contamination in an empty lot in a housi

Jakarta – The Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) has recorded a deficit of Rp 15.5 trillion (US$1.13 million), 51.56 percent lower than the late-2019 projection of

Esther Samboh and Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government is planning to relax rules on drug patents in the omnibus bill on job creation to boost the nation's pharmaceutical indus

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto has reiterated the importance of praying amid the country's ongoing battle against China'

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's nuclear authorities said on Monday (Feb 17) they would investigate the radioactive contamination of a patch of land in a housing complex outside Jakarta

As of this morning, there is zero confirmed coronavirus infection on Indonesian soil, which has raised questions over whether the country is ill-equipped to detect the disease or if In

James Massola, Jakarta – Indonesian Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto has said Indonesians should keep praying to God to ensure the country remains free of Covid-19 and defended hi