Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Jakarta, the country's first epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, is mulling whether to reimpose restrictions it previously eased as the daily number of new case

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is drafting a regulation that will make the wearing of face mask in public compulsory during the coronavirus outbreak, Preside

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of cured or discharged Covid-19 patients in Indonesia increased by 1,051 to a total of 36,689 on Monday, outnumbering active cases for the first t

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has passed yet another toughest week in the Covid-19 outbreak with 11,950 more confirmed cases and 435 deaths, the highest ever by seven-day averag

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Jakarta Archdiocese has allowed three parishes to restart Sunday service after months of holding online services during large-scale social restriction

Febriana Firdaus in Bali and Rebecca Ratcliffe – Attempts to control a growing coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia, the worst-hit country in south-east Asia, are being hampered by a lack

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of cured or discharged Covid-19 patients in Indonesia increased by a record 1,190 on Saturday to a total of 34,719, or 46.9 percent of the overall

Jakarta – The Health Ministry's disease control and prevention director general, Achmad Yurianto, announced on Friday that the term "new normal" to describe Indonesia's post-pandemic e

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – With the world racing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia may miss an opportunity to increase its role in the global value chain of the pharmac

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – For 32-year-old Wiji Cahyono, the back pains that have cost him so many nights of sleep are now becoming so unbearable that he felt "like dying", if it were

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The national COVID-19 task force has encouraged the public to keep wearing masks to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus, following a recent repor

Jakarta – The World Health Organization has urged Indonesia to perform more COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on people suspected to have the illness because it has noted

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Epidemiologist at the University of Indonesia (UI) Syahrizal Syarif on Thursday said the surging number of COVID-19 spread in Jakarta, as well as in other Indones

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Several studies have found increasing levels of frustration, anger, stress, fear, anxiety and other negative emotions during the pandemic.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A minister touted a necklace made of eucalyptus while researchers, including from the national intelligence agency, announced the discovery of a combin

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The World Health Organisation said Indonesia should start to prioritize tests for Covid-19 suspects to improve its tracing capability – instead of spending about

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has added 15,962 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the opening of the month, or 1,596 new cases per day, as the country's most densely-populated

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Two resident doctors from Airlangga University (Unair) in Indonesia's COVID-19 epicenter – Surabaya, East Java – had been on track to wrap up years of studie

James Massola and Amilia Rosa – Indonesia has recorded a huge jump in daily coronavirus cases with 2657 new infections reported on Thursday.

Toru Takahashi, Bangkok – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is known for his gentle personality.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has urged the government to review the regulation on COVID-19 rapid tests as there might be price discrepancies between test providers, resulting in

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – Members of the public should reconsider decisions to travel to COVID-19 "green zones" despite the gradual reopening of tourism in such areas, an epidemiologist

Jakarta – The number of people who died of Covid-19 in Indonesia is almost five times higher than the official total announced by the government.

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic is now threatening access to HIV/AIDS treatments, as countries, including Indonesia, are focusing on curbing the highly infectious

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesia has reported the highest daily rise of COVID-19 cases for two days in a row, with 2,657 cases recorded on Thursday, bringing the total number of i

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Indonesia's high rate of COVID-19 infection has not stopped people throughout the archipelago from refusing to be tested, largely because of employment concerns

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Dramatic footages of grieving families snatching the bodies of Covid-19 patients continued to appear on news broadcasts, painting a grim picture of the co

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry and Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry have released joint guidelines for the cultural and creative industries as they re

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has issued a circular setting a price ceiling of Rp 150,000 (US$10.41) for COVID-19 rapid tests, following numerous complaints over th

Jakarta – The Australian government will provide A$2.2 million (Rp 22.1 billion) for the disaster management agencies of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahd

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia announced 1,853 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day increase since the emergence of its first cases in early March, bringing the

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – University of Indonesia epidemiologist Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono suggested Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan take the courageous decision to stop the transitional PSBB

Sausan Atika and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The emergence of new COVID-19 cases in Jakarta, the first national epicenter of the outbreak, is showing no signs of slowing down despite cl

Rebecca Ratcliffe – Indonesia's agriculture minister has been condemned by health experts for claiming that a necklace made from eucalyptus can help prevent transmission of Covid-19.

James Massola – Indonesia will become the third coronavirus epicentre in Asia after China and India, according to one of the country's top epidemiologists.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The surge in coronavirus infections in Indonesia continued on Monday with 1,209 new cases, taking the country's total to 64,958.

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Adam Prireza, Jakarta – A joint survey by the Social Resilience Lab Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and crowdsourcing platform Lapor Covid19 claims that Jakartans are not ready

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Dangdut King Rhoma Irama hits the wrong note when singing on stage in front of hundreds of people amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tri Indah Oktavianti and Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Agriculture Ministry plans to release a eucalyptus-based "antivirus necklace" that minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo claims can help

Lia Timson – When a boatload of people arrived unannounced on an idyllic beach at the eastern tip of Timor-Leste, one Australian watched what happened next with a mix of trepidation an

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 82 deaths from coronavirus-related diseases on Sunday, the highest single-day fatalities since the outbreak, to take the total death toll

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Ombudsman Lely Pelitasari Soebekty said that there are indications of commercialization of Covid-19 rapid test tools.

Jakarta – Authorities busted around 100 people during a raid on Top One Discotheque in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, in the early hours of Friday morning.

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The COVID-19 epidemic has not slowed the onset of the seasonal dengue fever across the country, the Health Ministry has said, with 70,418 cases and 458

Undercounting COVID-19 cases is believed to be a problem hardly exclusive to Indonesia, but a recent claim from experts may be the strongest indication yet that some Indonesian regions

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Confirmed cases of coronavirus infections in Indonesia soared by 1,624 on Thursday, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak, to take the country's tot

Jakarta – Indonesia announced 1,624 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest single-day increase since its first cases emerged in early March, bringing the total number of infection

Heru Andriyanto, Dina Manafe, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 1,385 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday to equal the highest single-day rise four days ago, taking the country's total to 57,77

Jakarta – With her husband left jobless by the pandemic, the last thing Indonesian mother Juarsih needed was to get pregnant, but now she's expecting a third child – one of many in the