Such is Indonesians' love for malls that it was only a matter of time before somebody floated the idea of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at the shopping center.

Koh Ewe – Flashing a big thumbs-up in a video to his nearly 50 million Instagram followers, Indonesian actor and social media influencer Raffi Ahmad received a COVID-19 jab last week an

Jakarta may soon run out of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, the provincial government said, as it announced the latest data on medical treatment capacity in the capital.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 308 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday to set a new record for the highest number of fatality in a day since the outbreak began and take

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from University of Indonesia (UI), Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono, argues that the large-scale social restriction (PSBB) that has been enacted in the capita

Dina Manafe & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government repeated the call for all hospitals across the country to increase quota for Covid-19 patients after the total num

Experts and the general public alike have pretty much known all along that Indonesia's official COVID-19 cases count, however worrying it is, does not reflect the even more grim reality

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The Indonesian Police have identified at least 15 suspects charged with falsifying Covid-19 test results at the country's biggest airport and taking illegal

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for its weak health response to Covid-19 which has brought Indonesia to its knees sinc

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's ongoing surge in newly coronavirus cases reached a new level with an additional 14,224 cases on Saturday to set a new high for the fourth straight

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 12,818 coronavirus cases on Friday to set a new high for the third day in a row and take its total to 882,418, according to Health Ministry

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Technology giant Grab requests early access to the Covid-19 vaccine for their driver partners and merchants as part of the prioritized vulnerable populatio

Antara, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said he was open to the possibility of paid Covid-19 vaccination programs carried out by corporations.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Presidential Palace stated that it had reprimanded a celebrity, Raffi Ahmad, for neglecting the health protocols during a gathering with a number of other fam

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia started vaccinating health workers and public servants for COVID-19 on Thursday, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot o

Heru Andriyanto, Dina Manafe, Jakarta – Indonesia began the campaign for mass vaccination against coronavirus on Thursday, a day after President Joko Widodo and a number of prominent pe

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – As Indonesia continues to see a spike in COVID-19 cases placing its healthcare system in dire straits, the central government has introduced new measures t

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Anne Barker – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has received the first dose of a Chinese-made vaccine as part of the launch of the country's ambitious plan to vaccinate up to 180 million

Jakarta, Indonesia – In the UK, the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside trial conditions was a 90-year-old pensioner.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo received the country's first Covid-19 jab on Wednesday, as the government kicked off a mass vaccination drive to clamp down on soaring case rate

Dina Manafe, Jakarta – The Indonesian government on Tuesday received 15 million doses of half-finished coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech for final production and

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The coronavirus daily death toll reached a new high in Indonesia on Tuesday with 302 deaths, 17 percent higher than the previous record, to take the country's

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The extreme surge in patients treated for Covid-19 is starting to take its toll on doctors tasked in hospitals run by the Jakarta administration.

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has called on hospitals to increase their bed allocation for coronavirus patients amid a dramatic surge i

Jakarta – The Indonesian Food and Drug Supervisory Agency, or BPOM, approved Sinovac vaccine for emergency use on Monday, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to be administered in t

Anwar Siswadi, Jakarta – University of Padjadjaran statistician Yuyun Hidayat on Monday said COVID-19 cases would predictably continue to climb throughout the week as the total number o

Officials in Bali are putting their foot down to deal with foreigners who are refusing to follow COVID-19 health protocols in the province, with Governor Wayan Koster saying that those

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Indonesia is on track to roll out its COVID-19 vaccination campaign next week, just as the country extends its record-breaking streak of highest new daily con

Robert Campion – The spread of COVID-19 continues to accelerate out of control in South East Asia's largest country and economy.

Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – Indonesian Ulema Council, the country's top Islamic body, has deemed China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines permissible under Islamic law, giving a boost to the gover

Jakarta – The Alumni Menteng 64 (AM64), a group of Kolese Kanisius Catholic high school alumni, publicly declared its support for the government's mass vaccination program in Jakarta on

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The daily count of coronavirus cases in Indonesia passed the 10,000 mark on Friday, setting a new record for the highest number of cases for the third day in

An Indonesian official who was fired by the president after she became a national laughing stock may get her job back after a court ruled that her termination was unlawful.

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee Chairman, Airlangga Hartarto, asserted that the COVID-19 vaccine was mandatory under a

Amid some confusion regarding new COVID-19 restrictions in Indonesia, we now have some sense of clarity thanks to a new acronym.

Kukuh S.Wibowo, Jakarta – Surabaya acting-mayor, Whisnu Sakti Buana, on late Wednesday, Jan.

Dwi Argo Santosa, Lona Olavia, Jakarta – The government has decided to impose stricter restrictions in Java and Bali starting on Jan. 11 to Jan.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – University of Indonesia epidemiologist Pandu Riono on Tuesday urged the central government to act upon the declining condition of Indonesia's Covid-19 pande

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman on Wednesday said that the shrinking availability of ICU rooms and isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients is

Bali Governor Wayan Koster has become the subject of controversy today after he reportedly claimed that hospitals in the province are exaggerating COVID-19 deaths.

The central government is applying tighter social restrictions in high-risk COVID-19 regions, which include Jakarta and other cities and regencies throughout Java and Bali, in order to

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 8,854 confirmed cases of coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak started, to bring the country's tot

Harry Suhartono – A shorter holiday and last-minute restrictions did little to keep Indonesians from traveling over the year-end, a sign of revival in consumer spending while posing a r

Francisca Christy Rosana, Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from University of Indonesia, Pandu Riono, on Monday implied that the government needs to be 'awakened' to realize that

Stanley Widianto, Tabita Diela, Jakarta – As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against COVID-19, its plan to prioritise working age adults over the elderly, aiming to reach

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's capital city has extended its Covid-19 curbs called for transition partial lockdown for the next two weeks as it tries to pre-empt an expect

Jakarta, Indonesia – Questions about the potential use of pork products in vaccines is compounding vaccine hesitancy in Indonesia, experts have warned, urging officials and Muslim leade

Dina Manafe, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma began distributing 3 million doses of vaccine against coronavirus to all 34 provinces on

Anne Barker – Indonesian scientists have developed a simple breathalyser test that they say can electronically "smell' coronavirus and detect infection in under two minutes.