Esther Samboh, Jakarta – People around the world are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic differently. Some are anxious, others unperturbed.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives have expressed dissatisfaction about President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's newly announced ban on the Idul Fitri tradition o

Jakarta – The Covid-19 outbreak has prompted members of the public to launch their own crowdsourced databases on the spread of the virus in their respective communities in a bid to she

Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia will ban the mass exodus tradition, locally known as mudik, at the end of the Muslim fasting month in May in a bid to curb the spread of coronavir

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Febriana Firdaus – Indonesia has banned an annual homecoming in which tens of millions of people travel to see their families for Eid-al-Fitr, fearing the mass ex

A patient under observation (PDP) for possible coronavirus infection left isolation from a hospital in the Central Java city of Tegal over the weekend, with his wife reportedly aiding

M Julnis Firmansyah, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Not using face masks has been recorded to be the most common offense during the implementation of the Large Scale Social

Dina Manafe, Anselmus Bata, Jakarta – Indonesia received a shipment of 50,000 reagents from South Korea on Sunday which the government will use to boost the number of polymerase chain

When all else fails, one way to convince Indonesians to self-isolate, as we've seen before with the pocong guards, is to spook them into compliance.

Asip Hasani, Blitar, East Java – The Surabaya municipal administration and two regencies of its greater metropolitan area, Gresik and Sidoarjo, decided on Sunday to apply to the Health

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Jakarta – Indonesia's death toll from the coronavirus has likely reached 1,000, nearly double the official figure of 582, Indonesian Doctors' Association (IDI) chairman Daeng Faqih was

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The head of the national task force for COVID-19 mitigation, Doni Monardo, admitted that the enforcement of the large-scale social restrictions or PSBB in Jakar

Jakarta – After weeks of bleak outlook in its struggle to end the coronavirus outbreak, Indonesia saw some promising signs on Monday with a sharp drop in daily new cases and a lot more

Jakarta – Nurse Ika Dewi Maharani knew when cases of COVID-19 started to climb that she needed to do something.

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to climb in Indonesia and large-scale social restrictions remain in place across the country, it is easy to lose sig

Jakarta – The Bethel Indonesia School of Theology in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, has been designated a "red zone" following mounting reports of COVID-19 cases in its vicinity.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Several residents in the Cipageran Asri housing complex in West Java gather every day to whip up tasty meals for a neighbour afflicted with the coronavirus.

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

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – It's been 47 days since the country officially admitted it was not immune to the coronavirus.

Joe Cochrane – The Indonesian resort island of Bali has declined to introduce strict measures to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, despite several other regions of the country

Dyna Rochmyaningsih – Scientists in Indonesia are exasperated at the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it shambolic and secretive, with a lack of coordination betwee

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.

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.

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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