Jakarta – The Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) has announced that it will return the premiums for the national health insurance (JKN) program to their original r

Jakarta – Several COVID-19 patients in West Nusa Tenggara with a recent travel history to a tabligh (Islamic mass gathering) in Gowa, South Sulawesi have escaped quarantine, putting ot

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – As many as 563 COVID-19 cases in Indonesia have been recorded among foreigners living in the country, with almost 100 currently receiving treatment, Foreign

Amy Chew – In a village in Indonesia's Central Java's regency of Wonosobo, a farmer offered his small plot of land to bury patients who had died of Covid-19.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's coronavirus cases exceeded 10,000 as infections showed no signs of slowing even with partial lockdowns and travel restrictions in the nation's main ci

Antonio Sampaio, Dili – Xanana Gusmao, president of the second largest Timorese party, has criticised the decision to extend Timor-Leste's state of emergency, considering that it is no

There's been a surge in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Mimika regency of Indonesian-ruled Papua. Mimika now has 51 cases, the most of any single regency in Papua region.

Dyaning Pangestika, Bandung – The rate of COVID-19 transmission in West Java has flattened since large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) were implemented in the province.

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The West Java provincial government is finalizing a plan to launch a mobile healthcare center for children and pregnant women during large-scale social restric

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia is ramping up health protocols at key borders to deal with its returning migrant workforce amid the Covid-19 crisis, as thousands of Indonesi

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Jakarta plans to give away two cloth face masks to every resident of the capital to help slow the spread of Covid-19, Governor Anies Baswedan said on Wednesday

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has launched an online complaint center for people to file reports about unsatisfactory public services during the coronavirus crisis

John McCarthy – Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia's poverty rate has fallen to its lowest level ever.

Sana Jaffrey – The sequence of denial, reluctance, and alarm in Indonesia's response to the coronavirus crisis follows the trajectory of many other countries, including highly develope

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Former Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) commissioner Sitti Hikmawatty – who was fired by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo after making the scient

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The actual number of COVID-19 deaths in Indonesia may be substantially higher than officially reported as several regions have recorded hundreds of fatalitie

Sausan Atika and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The government has claimed that Jakarta, the country's epicenter of COVID-19, has flattened the curve of transmission, but experts say furth

Beladenta Amalia – "Covid-19 hits old people the hardest." The oft-heard statement might have given many young Indonesians a false sense of security as they puff away on their cigarett

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Safrin Labatu, Jakarta – From shirtless soldiers to teens sun tanning on their parents' driveways, Indonesians are soaking up rays like never before in the hope that plentiful sunshine

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – As the COVID-19 pandemic changes the global business landscape, jamu (herbal medicine) producers are playing a growing role in the Indonesian economy.

Jakarta – A crowdfunding effort for locally produced real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test kits, for more reliable COVID-19 detection, reached its donation target of Rp 10

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The head of Indonesia's expert team on Covid-19 task force has disputed the convention used by the World Health Organisation to measure the fatality ra

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Adults aged 30 to 59 make up the largest proportion of COVID-19 deaths in Indonesia, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday.

Suherdjoko, Surakarta, Central Java – Three nurses who work in Bung Karno Hospital in Surakarta, Central Java, have been evicted from their rooming house over the landlord's concerns t

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – The COVID-19 task forces in Surabaya, East Java and its satellite regencies Sidoarjo and Gresik are set to impose a curfew during the large-scale social restric

Tom Allard and Kate Lamb, Jakarta – More than 2,200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID-19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease, a Reuters review of data from

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta's satellite cities and regencies of Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java will be extended for two weeks

Jakarta – Two organizations representing Indonesian jamu (herbal medicine) producers have objected to the reported importation of ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Interfaith Network for COVID-19 Response (JIC) has collaborated with entrepreneurs to aid informal workers with food packages throughout Ramadan.

By Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Indonesia currently has the highest covid-19 coronavirus mortality rate in Asia – between 8-9 percent – owing to its poor public health management

James Massola – Indonesians could resume some form of normal life by July, according to two key members of the government's COVID-19 taskforce, who claim coronavirus infections are dec

Yustinus Paat, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 415 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours on Tuesday, the highest single-day rise since the first cases in the count

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Indonesia receives $765,000 worth of medical supplies from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday to increase the country's capacity in containing the coronavirus ou

Time and time again we've been reminded not to take the COVID-19 pandemic lightly (remember this?), yet the Indonesian government seems to be optimistic that the worst shall soon pass

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The government has claimed that Jakarta, the country's epicenter of COVID-19, has flattened the curve and experienced a significant slowdown in new cases, hopi

Dili – The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison called with Timor-Leste's prime minister Taur Matan Ruak reiterating Australia's support and solidarity in fighting the Covid-19 pan

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – "I know this might sound harsh for some people but this is the fact; if you do not want to die, do not come to Papua," Silwanus Sumule, a doctor who wor

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Indonesia currently has the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in Asia, between 8 – 9 percent, owing to

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has signed a decree on the immediate dismissal of Indonesian Child Protection Commission member Sitti Hikmawaty following her scientifically in

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – A researcher from Singapore University of Technology and Design, Jianxi Luo, predicted in a research report received by Tempo on Monday, April 27, 2020, that th

Li-Li Chen – Many Southeast Asian countries adopted a state of emergency to combat COVID-19.

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) imposed in Greater Jakarta are set to be extended and expanded, leaders of the capital city's satellite cities have s

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – It has been almost two months since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first COVID-19 cases in the country, which has since been gripped by fear as t

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's Covid-19 Task Force received shipment of sophisticated laboratory equipment for coronavirus infection diagnostic testing from Chi

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported on Sunday that 19,648 patients were under strict observation for suspected coronavirus infection, as lab tests were limited due to a lack

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia may be prolonged under its current strategy of imposing large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), with the number of confirmed

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Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has claimed that the central government increased its COVID-19 testing capacity to 12,000 per day, showing a wide discrepancy wi

The National Commission for the Protection of Indonesian Children (KPAI) has recommended the firing of commissioner Sitti Hikmawatty for saying that women can get pregnant from swimmin