Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The country's leading children's rights group is threatening to sue the government unless it issues a regulation banning all tobacco advertising, which it

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia's family planning program remains stagnant due to poor access to reproductive and sexual health services, which could further affect the countr

Jakarta – Deputy Health Minister Ali Ghufron Mukti warned on Tuesday that maternal and infant deaths in Indonesia remained high despite improvements over the last few years.

Dessy Sagita – Child health in Indonesia remains a major challenge largely because of malnutrition, although maternal health is improving, a key international report says.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – With three years remaining ahead of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline in 2015, the number of infant and maternal deaths in 20 provinces th

Dessy Sagita – Blackened lungs. Gangrenous feet. Yellowed teeth. Indonesia's cigarette warning labels are about to get a lot nastier.

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Antara & Anita Rachman – The Constitutional Court on Tuesday annulled an article in the 2009 Health Law which has stopped building owners across the country from providing a special

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Family planning authorities are urging the country's highest Islamic authority to declare vasectomies permissible under religious

Dessy Sagita – The National Commission for Child Protection will file a class-action lawsuit against the cigarette industry and the government for failing to protect children from smoki

Anita Rachman – A tobacco control bill was first named to the House of Representatives' list of priority legislation for deliberation and passage in 2009 – and there it smoldered until

Michael Victor Sianipar – Indonesia may be progressing slowly and steadily toward fulfilling its targets under the Millennium Development Goals, but the issue of maternal health continu

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Poor women in urban areas are reluctant to accept contraceptives offered to them for free, hampering efforts to slow the country's population growth.

In Indonesia, a diagnosis of leprosy can cut patients off from family, employment, public services, even marriage and places of worship, health officials say.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Low investment in infrastructure development has left many Indonesians with no access to potable water and basic sanitation, and the problem is particula

Dessy Sagita – A survey conducted by the Health Department suggests that among high-risk populations, women are more likely to use condoms during sex than men, which has made them signi

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia could fail its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, due to the slow progress in improving the

Vento Saudale – Finding itself under sustained criticism for the perceived health impacts of high voltage overhead power transmission lines, state utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara has

Rangga Prakoso – An antigraft coalition hit a roadblock on Tuesday in its legal bid to revive an investigation of lawmakers accused of tampering with the 2009 Health Law.

Efforts in Indonesia to save a volunteer-led community health initiative are working, but more is needed to increase the reach of the program, which is shown to improve child and matern

Rangga Prakoso – Tobacco control activists are continuing their long-running campaign against legislators accused of dropping a key clause from the 2009 Health Bill, demanding that a ha

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Papua has become a general epidemic stage that requires immediate action to prevent the further spread of the disease into th

Dessy Sagita – Antismoking activists have slammed the latest conspiracy theory that global forces want to hurt Indonesia's economy by destroying its tobacco industry.

Agus Maryono, Banyumas – At least five mothers have reportedly died due to maternity complications over the last month in Banyumas, Central Java, allegedly due to poverty.

The Jayapura administration is planning to require male residents to undergo circumcision in an effort to cut HIV/AIDS transmission rates in Papua.

Dessy Sagita – Since giving birth to her son three weeks ago, Airin Nofran has received a torrent of advice about her diet and that of her baby.

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Eradicating the practice of pasung, or shackling the mentally ill, in Central Java is ambitious, but can be done, according to a top official.

Dofa Fasila & Dessy Sagita – Health authorities have revealed a startling 31 percent leap in the number of recorded HIV/AIDS cases in Jakarta in 2011, which they attributed to great

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Tangerang – The South Tangerang Branch of the Indonesia Ulema Council spoke out on Tuesday against a move by health authorities to distribute free condoms to sex workers to help halt th

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Commercial sex workers in Surakarta, Central Java, have demanded a designated red-light district to ensure better organized outreach services, especi

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo says that he has placed his hopes on religious preachers to help reduce the vast spread of HIV/AIDS in the city.

Dessy Sagita – A school that earned the ire of the nation for rejecting, on World AIDS Day last week, a 6-year-old student because her father was HIV positive apologized on Monday but c

Jakarta – In spite of the continuous government program against HIV/AIDS, for many of Jakarta's poor the program remains elusive, with many impoverished residents still not receiving co

Awis Mranani – A six-year-old Indonesian girl was kicked out of her elementary school on World AIDS Day because her father is HIV positive.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Condom use remains unpopular in the world's largest Muslim majority country despite the fact that most HIV/AIDS infections in Indonesia are now spreading

Elly Burhaini Faizal – A survey shows that HIV positive people and AIDS victims are still being denied access to social security schemes needed to help mitigate the impact of the epidem

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Nine years ago housewife Mirza "Vivi" Revilia gave birth to a girl.

With its high population density and mobile residents, Jakarta is a city at high risk of rapid spread of HIV/AIDS, according to the city's AIDS Prevention Commission.

Dessy Sagita – HIV/AIDS is a growing health problem in Indonesia, but as the rate of infection shows no signs of slowing down and the disease becomes more prevalent, prevention campaign

Anita Rachman – The country's second-largest Islamic group has thrown its full weight behind efforts to rid Indonesia of its heavy smoking habit.

Anita Rachman – The National Social Security Law may have passed, but a troubling question lingers about the fate of the existing health insurance scheme and its beneficiaries.

Dessy Sagita – With the Health Law now legally in force, antismoking activists are pushing for the government to issue the necessary regulations to bring a contentious clause on tobacco

A 10-year-old girl with a tumor was been refused treatment at two hospitals simply because her family is poor.

Antara & Dessy Sagita – Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih has blamed the death of a baby girl who was refused treatment at two hospitals, and given only cursory care at a t

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The government has blamed parents' reluctance to get their children vaccinated for the recent diphtheria outbreak in East Java, with many religious commu

Brace yourselves, germaphobes: Indonesia's toilets are some of the dirtiest in Asia, according to the non-governmental World Toilet Organization.

Sukabumi, West Java – For Naslima, a mother of two in the fishing village of Genteng Parakan, there was never any doubt about how she would feed her babies.

Nearly 40 percent of Indonesian teenagers have had sex and almost half of them do not use contraception with new partners, a new international survey has found.

Ezra Sihite & Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia is the only country in the region that has not ratified a World Health Organization treaty to protect people from the harms of tobacco.