Ghina Ghaliya and Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The bodies of more than 1,000 people have been buried according to the coronavirus health protocol in Jakarta as laboratories battle a backlo

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – More businesses are now lending a helping hand in the race against coronavirus, including Goodhope Asia Holdings, which has recently donated ventilators t

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Forty-six medical workers at Dr.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Siloam Hospitals Group and Lippo Malls Indonesia have opened drive-through rapid testing sites for those who develop coronavirus-like symptoms but don't w

Pribadi Wicaksono, Translator: Dio Suhenda (Intern), Jakarta – Crowds have continued to gather on a number of Yogyakarta streets, carrying on with their activity despite government war

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The South Sulawesi administration is soon to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the provincial

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), which manages the national online single-submission system for business permit requests, has issued 4,042 o

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Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The Covid-19 outbreak in Indonesia may peak next month, with around 100,000 cases and a death toll of over 1,000 people, said a senior official in the

Amy Chew – The figures coming out of Indonesia are grim – 469 dead from Covid-19, the highest fatality count in Asia outside China, and another 5,136 people infected.

Dili – In just one day East Timor confirmed another ten COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of patients who suffer from the disease to eighteen.

Jakarta – Reduced to sharing goggles and cheap raincoats, Indonesia's under-equipped doctors are battling a tide of COVID-19 infections that is overwhelming its creaky healthcare syste

Made Ayu Mariska – Will there be enough food? Indonesia is one of the biggest agrarian countries in the world, producing over 31 million tonnes of rice last year.

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – The South Korean public and private sectors are sending donations of medical equipment, protective gear and testing kits to Indonesia to help the country

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – The Overseas Indonesian Students Association Alliance (PPI-Dunia) has urged the government to ramp up its measures against COVID-19 as it has seen no signif

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – At least five specialist doctors working at Padang Sidempuan Hospital, a COVID-19 referral hospital in North Sumatra, have resigned from their p

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is cooperating with the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to provide hospitals with su

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesia is ready to mass-produce urgently needed medical equipment, including ventilators and COVID-19 test kits, to meet skyro

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Indonesia is struggling to acquire the necessary kits to conduct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing on a massive scale given the surge in global demand,

Yitno Suprapto, Jambi, Indonesia – As Indonesia grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, infections from another animal-borne disease have gone on the rise largely unnoticed and likely dri

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned firms have received COVID-19 medicine and raw materials from India to help treat infected patients in the country.

Jakarta – Forty people across Central Java have died from dengue fever in the last three months, the Central Java Health Agency reported, making the mosquito-borne disease deadlier tha

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has announced that another 102 people recovered from COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total number of recovered patients in the country t

Jakarta – Dozens of Jakartans have volunteered to become social companions for COVID-19 patients and those suspected of having the disease in the capital city, joining an initiative to

Matt Bamford – Australian doctors have joined the fight against COVID-19 in Timor-Leste in a bid to prevent devastation in one of South-East Asia's most vulnerable countries.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that it would allow 10 regions considered COVID-19 red zones to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to wi

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has now called for greater transparency in how the nation is handling the coronavirus outbreak, end

Jakarta – Police have questioned four foreigners in Bali after a video of people holding a house party during the COVID-19 outbreak was circulated on social media.

Dili – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Timor-Leste has increased to a total of six cases.

Yudo Dahono, Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – The central government has finally released its official figure on suspect cases of Covid-19 across the country, which turned out to be mu

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A projected 1.3 million people from Greater Jakarta will return to their hometowns for the annual Idul Fitri mudik (exodus), according to the Indonesian Transp

Dili – The government has designated the old hospital Antonio de Carvalho Lahane as medical facility for COVID-19 patients who are suffering from severe symptoms.

Pacific Media Watch – The Covid-19 coronavirus is "exacerbating tensions" in Indonesia's West Papua region and exposing the "shortcomings" of Jakarta government policy, warns a conflic

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government's ability to provide social protection and ensure undisrupted food supply will be crucial in preventing social unrest as the COVID-19 pande

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar, Bali – Despite the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Bali, the island has no intention of implementing large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) similar

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has declared the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia a "non-natural national disaster" in a Presidential Decree.

Budi Sutrisno, Arya Dipa, and Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The first work day of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) period in Jakarta was marked by confusion and chaos, with p

Jakarta – A community unit in Madiun, East Java, has set up an "open kitchen" so that people in the area whose incomes have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will not need to go h

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The West Java provincial government has asked youth organization Karang Taruna – first established in 1980 under President Soeharto's New Order – to get active

Dili – The number of COVID-19 cases is increasing in East Timor.

Ardila Syakriah, Asip Hasani and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – Soon after he took office in October 2019, Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto highlighted the urgency for puskesmas (co

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto to boost the number of Covid-19 swab tests to 10,000 per day and share the

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Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – The West Java administration is reviewing requests for large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to be imposed in Greater Bandung that will be submitted to

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the highest Islamic clerical body in the nation, gave its harshest indictment yet on Indonesians who insist on going on the annual mudik homecoming

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Health Ministry is processing more requests from regional administrations to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) after Indonesia recorded

Suherdjoko, Semarang – The funeral of a nurse who succumbed to COVID-19 in Sewakul village, West Ungaran, Semarang regency in Central Java was met with rejection on Thursday afternoon

Jakarta – West Java's cities and regencies in Greater Jakarta, namely Bogor municipality and regency, Depok as well as Bekasi municipality and regency, are preparing to impose their ow

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Indonesia continues to climb, while thousands of Jakartans leaving for their hometowns may fuel the epidemic.

Jakarta – At least six people have died of dengue fever in North Maluku so far this year.