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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 – 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Suherdjoko and Ganug Nugroho Adi, Semarang and Surakarta – Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has expressed his appreciation to residents who have decided not to participate in this

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 330 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours on Saturday, the second highest rise in a day, to bring the total ca

Crisis, be it economic collapse, natural disaster or pandemic, deepens and amplifies the social vulnerabilities produced by inequality.

Sudirman Nasir, Makassar – Amid the current pandemic and in the absence of effective vaccines and antiviral drugs, preventive measures are essential to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – The amount of activity around Jakarta has reportedly been down on Friday, the first day of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), with roads quiet as peopl

Jakarta – Indonesia's government is failing to provide transparency and access to information to battle the COVID-19 outbreak, Human Rights Watch said today.

Kate Lamb, Wahyuwidi Cinthya – When Indonesian doctor Ratih Purwarini was buried at dusk in a Jakarta cemetery, only her son Firos saw her plastic-wrapped coffin used for coronavirus v