Jakarta – The National Food and Drug Control Agency, or BPOM, has given the green light to conduct clinical trials on the use of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to treat Covid-19 patients.
In an official statement released in March, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised Ivermectin to be only used for Covid-19 treatments within clinical trials.
Novy Lumanauw, Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia is eyeing to lead the world's downstream palm oil industry by 2045, according to the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs on Monday.
Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States have broken ground on a new $3.5 million maritime training centre in the strategic area of Batam, in the Riau Islands, Indonesia's maritime security agency said.
Hendro D. Situmorang, Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – Indonesia has more Covid-19 active cases on Saturday than any point in time since the pandemic began last year, placing the country in uncharted territory marked by overflowed hospitals and overstretched health workers.
Hellena Souisa, Sastra Wijaya and Zena Chamas – The body of a man who died after testing positive for coronavirus lay in front of his house in North Jakarta for more than 12 hours before an ambulance responded.
Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – It is only noon and the grave diggers at Rorotan cemetery have buried 23 bodies of Covid-19 patients since they started work at 7am.
At least two excavators are on standby because the hard soil in the area makes it difficult to dig with just shovels.
Eve Webster – Thousands of East Timorese people who fled the country in the 1990s could lose their rights to work, rent a home or access the NHS in three days' time because of Brexit.
Wahyuni Sahara, Jakarta – A number of parties ranging from medical experts to politicians are urging the government to reapply large scale social restrictions (PSBB) or a lockdown to contain the surge in Covid-19 cases.
Stevanus Yogi, Paniai – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) is asking President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his government to reexamine the TPNPB-OPM's line of march which it has been pursuing since it was formed in 1965 until now.
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Thirty doctors have died of Covid-19 so far this month in Indonesia, as the country battles a second wave of infections driven by the Delta variant, triggering renewed calls to impose a nationwide lockdown or risk a dire situation such as that in India.
Jubi – Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) announced on June 23 through its Twitter account that it gave facility to Freddie Waromi, a representative from United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP), to allow him to join MSG's governing body meetings.
Juli Hantoro, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan asked the capital city residents to stay home on Saturday and Sunday as the number of Covid-19 cases keeps rising.
"We know that Jakarta is not in a good condition. The second wave of this pandemic is still hitting the city hard," he said Friday, June 25.
Jakarta (NY Times) – Dr Suhendro Sastrowiwoho was fully vaccinated and eager to help this month as Indonesia faced a new and deadly wave of Delta variant coronavirus cases. His daughter and son-in-law, both trained as doctors, told him to rest. He was 74 years old, they warned, and the virus was evolving in unexpected ways.
The founder of Diaper Evacuation Brigade and his team of about 30 volunteers regularly travels across the Java island to clean up rivers.
Jakarta – Murder fugitive Hendra Subrata was flown to Jakarta on Saturday to serve his jail term after eluding justice for around 10 years, during which he stayed in Singapore.
According to the Indonesian embassy in Singapore, the 81 year old departed from Singapore at 6:45 local time aboard a Garuda plane.
Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has set a goal of administering 1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine per day starting on Saturday, with the president aiming to double the number by August.
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Business conglomeration Bakrie & Brothers recently unveiled its plan to ramp up its focus on the electric bus market.
Since 2018, the group's subsidiary Bakrie Autoparts has teamed up with Chinese automotive giant BYD Auto to penetrate into the electric vehicle (EV) market in Indonesia.
Pribadi Wicaksono (Contributor), Yogyakarta – The Indonesian special region Yogyakarta revealed two serious issues it faces amid the rising Covid-19 case, namely transmission among children and the oxygen supply in the past two weeks.
Jakarta – The Domestic Workers Protection Bill is yet to be passed. The cultural relationship that allows such imbalances must end.
Chris Ray – Nona was born in a dirt-floor hut in a East Timor highland village, where hungry children grow up stunted and wise men see omens in the flight of birds. Her parents grew rice and corn in swidden gardens, but struggled to feed six children. At the age of 9, Nona decided on a solution: she would leave home to live at an orphanage called Topu Honis.
Conor Skelding – Thousands climbed an active Indonesian volcano Saturday morning to perform a centuries-old sacrificial ritual, according to AFP.
Each year, members of the Tengger tribe cast livestock and food into the crater of Mount Bromo. The Hindu festival is called Yadnya Kasada.
COVID infections have surged in Indonesia, a nation of 270 million people, in the past week, with more than 2 million cases reported as of Saturday, and hospital occupancy rates soared to more than 75 percent in the capital Jakarta and other hard-hit areas.
The Bekasi General Hospital in Bekasi City, West Java was forced to treat patients in tents this morning, as patients kept coming despite the facility having reached its emergency unit capacity.
Max Lane – Indonesia's latest Covid-19 surge has piled pressure on the Widodo government, which is under pressure to reconsider some form of lockdown to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia is converting more hospital beds to treat Covid-19 patients amid a surge in cases dominated by the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Friday (Jun 25) that more hospitals and beds have been prepared in Jakarta to cope with another surge of COVID-19 cases, while assuring the public that there is sufficient oxygen supply on Java island.
Jakarta – The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) says that the Joint Decree (SKB) on Guidelines for Implementing the Information and Electronic Transaction Law (UU ITE), which was recently signed by the government, still contains a number of problematic articles.
Stanley Widianto and Fransiska Nangoy (Reuters), Jakarta – Indonesia is shifting medical emergency units in Jakarta to tents outside hospitals to create more room for COVID-19 beds, the health minister said, as authorities scramble to boost hospital capacity amid a spike in coronavirus cases.
Jakarta – Indonesia has reported 20,574 new daily cases and 355 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, placing it among the top five countries with the highest daily number of cases worldwide after Brazil, India, Columbia, and Argentina, data collected by statistics website Worldometer showed.
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo insists the micro-scale restriction on community activities, also known as PPKM Mikro, is still the best option available against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Leaders of political parties joined in the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin coalition reportedly held a meeting on Wednesday evening, June 23. Their physical meeting was evident in the photo shared by PSI secretary Raja Juli through his Twitter account.
Jakarta – The government's plan to increase value-added tax and widen its coverage triggers controversy. The key is build public trust.
Pematang Siantar – North Sumatra regional police have arrested three people over the murder of Mara Salem Harahap or Marsal (42), a Media Online journalist in Simalungun regency, North Sumatra, who was shot dead on June 18.
Jakarta – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) has warned the Papuan people not to trust that the TNI (Indonesian military) and the Polri (Indonesian police) can provide them with security guarantees in the region.
Ronna Nirmala, Jakarta – Suspected separatist rebels killed four construction workers and were holding four people hostage in the latest burst of violence in Indonesia's Papua region, police and reports said Friday, as the insurgents warned non-ethnic Papuan workers to leave conflict areas.
Separatist rebels were holding four civilians hostage in the jungles of Indonesia's breakaway Papua region after they killed several construction workers in an ambush, authorities said Friday.
Tensions have been mounting between Indonesian security forces and guerrillas fighting a decades-long insurgency to win independence from the Southeast Asian nation.
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – Indonesia's COVID-19 cases soared to levels not seen before this week, forcing some hospitals to set up emergency tents to cater to a deluge of patients seeking care after potentially contracting the Delta variant of the virus.
Jakarta – The families of victims of human rights violations say they are disappointed that Presidential Regulation Number 53/2021 on a Human Rights National Action Plan (Ranham) for 2021-2025 does not include past gross human rights violations as a priority.
Arys Aditya, Bekasi, Indonesia – Indonesia's Central Java province is imposing a stricter measure by locking down areas worst hit by Covid-19 in a bid to curb the spread of a more infectious strain of the virus,
Febriana Firdaus and agencies – Indonesian health authorities are battling a new surge in coronavirus infections, as the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) reported the highest one-day total, with 14,535 cases confirmed in the 24 hours to Monday.
Daily case totals are reaching levels last seen in January, the peak of Indonesia's fight against the virus.
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Priests and nuns in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province have called for heavy punishments to be imposed on the owners and managers of four nightclubs after 17 underage "sex slaves" were recently rescued by police.
Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia is considering a plan to restrict construction of smelters producing nickel pig iron or ferronickel in order to optimise use of its limited nickel ore reserves for higher-value products, a senior mining ministry official said on Thursday.
Niniek Karmini and Dita Alangkara, Jakarta – An influential firebrand cleric was sentenced to another four years in prison in Indonesia on Thursday for concealing information about his coronavirus test result.
An Indonesian court has sentenced hardline religious leader Rizieq Shihab to another four years in prison on charges of spreading false information about the results of his COVID-19 test.
Jakarta – Generous Indonesians donating their spare change to the poor and needy are unwittingly helping finance deadly terror attacks and militant training camps in a scam that has netted big money for extremist groups.
Audrey Tan, Singapore – There is a low risk of severe haze originating from forest fires in Indonesia this year, a local think-tank has assessed.
The report by the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) released on Thursday (June 24) said this was due to a confluence of factors.
Jessica Washington, Syarina Hasibuan and Jamaah, Jakarta/Kudus – It should have been a time of celebration for Puji Apriani's family – she was pregnant with her second child, and just weeks away from giving birth.
Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has been criss-crossing vaccination centres in Jakarta, keeping tabs on the national vaccination programme and rallying those in the capital city to get inoculated quickly.
Novy Lumanaw, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called Indonesians to improve discipline in wearing masks and implementing health protocols to curb the Covid-19 spread, which has been on the rise again and broke new daily records in the past 24 hours.
Yudha Baskoro, Cianjur, West Java – Officials in a West Java subdistrict have turned to an uncommon tactic by offering a live chicken in exchange for an immunization shot to persuade the elderlies to take their vaccination against Covid-19 for more than a month now.