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

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

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

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's death toll from the novel coronavirus disease topped 200 on Monday, with the government voicing particular concern about transmission fro

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government announced on Sunday there had been 181 confirmed Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours to bring the country's total to 2,273, the h

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Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Some 50,000 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) COVID-19 test kits from South Korea are expected to arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Sunday

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has heavily criticized the Health Ministry's newly issued guidelines on large-scale social restrictions to curb the spread of

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – When a 34-year-old doctor with COVID-19 passed away in Indonesia about two weeks ago, many were taken by surprise that a young adult had succumbed to the diseas

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – On April 1, Rajiman Sormin officially retired after 12 years as a mortician at Adam Malik Public Hospital in the Indonesian city of Medan.

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Popular Muslim preachers have urged the public to stop stigma related to Covid-19 and avoid discrimination against its victims after reports about people in se

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A recent study by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reveals that the high temperatures and humidity of Indonesia can, in fact, help cur

Tom Allard, Kanupriya Kapoor and Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – The number of funerals in Jakarta rose sharply in March, a development the governor of Indonesia's capital city said sugges

Jakarta – A Dengue fever outbreak in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) has worsened as the province records more than 200 patients treated for the disease in less than a week, while the number

Belseran Christ, Ambon – Dozens of travelers arriving at Yos Sudarso Port in Ambon, Maluku, on Wednesday morning reportedly expressed outrage after the city failed to provide them with

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – The government is confident about the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical workers in Indonesia, given that the domestic textile and garme

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Indonesia – one of the worlds most populous and far-flung nations – only just closed its borders, but experts fear this came too late.

Ade Mardiyati – One Saturday morning in January, when Arif returned home from a fishing trip, his mother-in-law asked him to check on his young sister-in-law, who was in her room.

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – At least 204 Indonesian citizens abroad have now been infected by the highly contagious novel coronavirus, the Foreign Ministry has said, with five cases th

Jakarta – Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) Coordinator Adnan Topan Husodo has criticised Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 1/2020 on State Financial Policy and Fina

Dili – Vice-minister of health, Elia Antonio dos Reis Amaral, has been sacked from her post.

Alexander R Arifianto – On March 31, 2020, Indonesian president Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo declared a national emergency to institute quarantine orders to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Guteriano Neves – As of today, Timor-Leste has one confirmed case of Covid-19. Nonetheless, the feeling of panic among the public has been mounting.