Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – "Because of you, my wedding is now cancelled," said one social media post.

Dili – East Timor has confirmed another case of coronavirus, health authorities said on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to two.

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo conveyed his gratitude and appreciation to those who have complied with calls for physical distancing and reminded the public

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Every one of Indonesia's 34 provinces has reported positive COVID-19 infections, according to the Health Ministry, with Gorontalo reporting its first confirmed

Ralph Jennings, Taipei, Taiwan – Indonesia, despite a growing coronavirus caseload, has avoided locking down population centers in favor of softer control measures to sustain an econom

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have scaled up security patrols on the roads and in supermarkets to ensure that the public follow large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) tha

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has defended the complicated bureaucratic process surrounding the government's COVID-19 mitigation policies, saying that he wanted to err on th

Jakarta – Most countries around the world are battling the coronavirus pandemic with severe travel restrictions, especially to and from areas hit hard by the deadly virus.

Danny Gallagher – Panic-stricken passengers on a ferry preparing to dock in Maumere, Indonesia caused scenes of hysteria after word got out that coronavirus carriers were suspected on

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Indonesia has joined a group of like-minded countries to resolve certain challenges in the COVID-19 pandemic response, in hopes of setting an example that coop

Bali, Indonesia – Pharmacists on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali are tackling a shortage of anti-coronavirus hand sanitizer by making their own unique, tropical version – from th

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – State-owned weapons manufacturer PT Pindad and electronics manufacturer PT LEN Industri are developing and planning to mass-produce ventilators to help hospit

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The government is ramping up efforts to carry out mass, rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing amid concerns the world's fourth-most populous nation l

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Experts from Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) have called on the government to provide accurate and integrated data on COVID-19 so that the publ

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia's COVID-19 Task Force plans to distribute equipment for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to 12 of the country's 34 provinces to help detect the

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Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – A total of 42 Thai Muslims who attended a multinational religious gathering in Gowa, South Sulawesi, on March 18 have since tested positive for Covid-19.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has started distributing social aid to those in need to mitigate the hardship of the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of the implementation o

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Adrian Wa'il Akhlas, Jakarta – The COVID-19 outbreak has exposed major flaws in Indonesia's creaking national health insurance program, which has not been ab

Tim Lindsey and Tim Mann – Almost no one thinks Indonesia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic well.

Heru Asprihanto, Willy Kurniawan, Jakarta – As debate rages about the true death toll caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia, Jakarta coffin maker Sahroni has been too busy to

Bradley Wood – The spread of Covid-19 throughout Indonesia is more than a health and economic crisis but a direct challenge to national unity.

Riska Rahman and Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI), pharmaceutical firm Indofarma and local universities are developing ventila

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Gemma Holliani Cahya and Arya Dipa, Jakarta – Staying at home and limiting one's interaction with others is pivotal to curb the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 disease.

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Ninety-two Indonesian crewmen aboard a number of international cruise liners had tested positive for COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning, the Foreign Ministry

Jakarta – The purpose-built Galang Island COVID-19 Specialty Hospital opened on Monday in Batam, Riau Islands province, but has yet to admit any patients, as it needs to test its medic

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has played down suggestions quoting its research that Indonesia's high temperature during the dry

Mardika Parama and Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesia is looking to China and South Korea to become the country's main suppliers of medical equipment as countries worldwide scram

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The West Java administration submitted a request to the central government on Wednesday to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in five cities and regenci

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Sausan Atika and Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have asserted that there will be no limitation on travel to or from Jakarta, the country's COVID-19 epicenter, despite t

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives are calling on Jakarta Governor Anies Baswendan to tighten law enforcement following the Health Ministry's approval for

Fadli, Batam – The specialist hospital on Galang Island, which was purpose-built to treat COVID-19 patients from across the nation, opened on Monday to bolster Indonesia's fight agains

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The country's COVID-19 task force will administer more polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which are believed to be more accurate than rapid tests

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has approved the Jakarta administration's proposal to implement large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in the capital, the first region in

Ivany Atina Arbi and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Imposing a nationwide lockdown to flatten the curve of COVID-19 transmission would do nothing but overwhelm the government, the national C

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Deputy chairman of the Indonesian Doctors Association (PB IDI) Slamet Budiarto revealed that one of the causes of Indonesia's high coronavirus (COVID-19

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Indonesian industries are ramping up their capacity to produce the medical equipment required to combat COVID-19 and will potentially export the products

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The National Police announced that it has acted upon three thousand people in East Java who violated the social restrictions amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pa

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Agus Wibowo says that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases the central government has been publishing di

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Only 36 in every million people are being tested for the coronavirus in Indonesia, making it the fourth worst in testing rate among countries with a 50

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) has called on the government to increase healthcare capacities in regions outside Jakarta.

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has accused the central government of stonewalling his efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus by issuing a minister

Carlos Ky Paath, Carlos Roy Fajarta, Ari Supriyanti Rikin, Jakarta – The government is now telling Indonesians to wear some type of nose and mouth covering at all times in public place

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Doni Monardo, the Chief of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 Task Force, announced today, April 6, that people violating rules noted in the large-scale so

Basten Gokkon – Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia's Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown to minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The government's COVID-19 fast response team has asked the Health Ministry to call on dentists and otolaryngologists to close their practices temporarily in or

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Two of Indonesia's largest mass Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, have advised people against participating in the annual Idul Fitri