Jakarta – The Health Ministry revealed on Monday that East Java, Indonesia's new COVID-19 epicenter, had one of the lowest testing rates compared to other provinces even as it continue

Jakarta – Bogor Regent Ade Yasin has threatened to file charges against Indonesian dangdut superstar Rhoma Irama for allegedly performing at an event in Cibunan Village, Bogor, West Ja

Jakarta – Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini knelt down on the ground and broke into tears as she held a meeting with doctors and hospital directors in Surabaya amid the spike of COVID-19

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Jeffrey Hutton, Jakarta – The Covid-19 outbreak is under control in Indonesia's biggest province, thanks to widespread testing and lockdown measures, said West Java Governor Ridwan Kam

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Health Ministry announced that 71 more people died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest reported death toll in a day so far, bringing the total fatalities t

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has registered nearly 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus infections throughout the month, which becomes the toughest period in the country's str

Dion Bisara, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A recent paper by Indonesian scientists has pointed to the oversized role of a few highly contagious individuals in the Covid-19's transmission in

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Indonesia was among the nations with a relaxed approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic before meeting World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for ro

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Strict testing is required for the slew of supposed coronavirus remedies that have garnered public attention in recent months, experts say.

Nicola Smith and Randy Mulyanto, Jakarta – Born in mid-May in Tlanakan, in Indonesia's East Java province, one of the country's youngest Covid-19 victims barely had a chance at life.

Jakarta – Banten Governor Wahidin Halim has announced that he will extend the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Greater Tangerang t

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Indonesians have become more interested in insurance to mitigate uncertainty regarding their health and personal finances brought about by the pandemic, y

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia saw a new high in confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday with 1,385 new cases to take the country's total to 52,812, as two worst-hit provinces Ea

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported a record 1,027 Covid-19 patients who recovered in the 24-hour period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 22,936 on Sunday.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing an uphill challenge during a transition period towards a new normal in many cities as people joined crowds, disobeyed health protoc

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Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Jakarta, the first epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in Indonesia, has reportedly brought the outbreak "under control", officials have said, in a statement tha

Jeffrey Hutton, Jakarta – The Covid-19 outbreak is under control in Indonesia's biggest province thanks to widespread testing and lockdown measures, said West Java governor Ridwan Kami

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Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta, Indonesia – More than 200 children including newborns and those under 5 years of age are believed to have died from COVID-19 in Indonesia as the virus has devas

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan on Thursday announced that the COVID-19 rate in the capital city has started to drop within the last two days.

Ricky Mohammad Nugraha, Jakarta – COVID-19 task force member, Dewi Nur Aisyah on Thursday announced that Indonesia's COVID-19 risk zone mapping by the end of May showed positive progre

Police in West Jakarta's Kembangan sub-district are questioning a street seller who allegedly spat into a bowl containing bakso cuanki before serving it to his customer, following CCTV

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in East Java has exceeded that of Jakarta, making the province Indonesia's COVID-19 epicenter.

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – Convalescent plasma can help in the recovery of Covid-19 patients with a severe condition but may become harmful if used carelessly as a means to prevent the

President Joko Widodo has called on regional officials and the citizens of East Java to be more disciplined in curbing the spread of the coronavirus as the province looks set to have t

Niniek Karmini and Edna Tariganan, Jakarta – The number of coronavirus infections in Indonesia surpassed 50,000 Thursday, an increase that is worrying experts at a time when the govern

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Denpasar Immigration Office in Bali is set to deport a Syrian national for holding a mass yoga gathering in Ubud amid public health concerns over the

I Nyoman Sutarsa, Elan A Lazuardi, Rabiah Al Adawiyah and Rizki Fillaili – The daily increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases in Indonesia is a long way from slowing down.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Indonesia hit the sad milestone of 50,000 on Thursday as major hotspots East Java and South Sulawesi failed to p

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced that the number of community units that were categorized as COVID-19 red zones have dropped since the transitional la

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged the East Java administration to decrease the rate of COVID-19 transmission in the region within two weeks.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan and Surabaya in East Java have recorded the highest mortality rates while COVID-19 case numbers keep rising across the archipel

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Pharmaceutical companies might have to switch the focus of their production to dietary supplements such as multivitamins during the pandemic to cater to incre

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Wednesday claims that the government's decision to progress into the COVID-19 'new normal' is heavily based on valid experts' a

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – The government has claimed that almost 60 percent of the country is either at low risk of COVID-19 infection or has zero cases.

Indonesia's COVID-19 Task Force today announced their findings on the country's caseload by cities and regencies – the first of such ranking – with Central Jakarta topping the unenvied

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The transmission rate of Covid-19 in Indonesia has yet to slow as the country saw 1,113 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, bringing the

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – East Java again had the most daily cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday to bring its total number of cases to 10,115, an increase by 258 from a day earl

Jakarta – A private hospital in Tabanan, Bali, has been identified as a new cluster for COVID-19 transmission after 10 new cases emerged.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Volunteers for crowdsourced database KawalCOVID-19 (Guard against COVID-19) have introduced an "alertness index" that shows specific data on COVID-19 cases

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – West Java – Indonesia's most populous province – has seen a declining trend of daily new cases of COVID-19 in the past few weeks, thanks to collaborative effort

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities complained on Wednesday that hundreds of people had refused testing for the new coronavirus as social taboos emerge as another

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Kupang District Court in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) sentenced Reyndhart Rossy Siahaan, who used marijuana as an alternative medication, to 10 months' impr

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a China-backed multilateral development bank, announced on Tuesday that it had approved a US$1 billion lo

Jakarta – Australia is set to disburse aid totaling AU$4.9 million (US$3.3 million) to the United Nations Children's Fund to support Indonesia's COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

Jakarta – Puncak Jaya regency in the remote Pegunungan Tengah area of Papua reported its first case of COVID-19 on Monday.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Indonesia should soon be able to produce up to two million polymerase chain reaction test kits per month and reduce the country's dependency on imported

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Surabaya, the capital of East Java, continues to defy calls to reinstate large-scale restrictions (PSBB), which were officially lifted earlier this month,