Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has claimed that the central government increased its COVID-19 testing capacity to 12,000 per day, showing a wide discrepancy wi

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – More people tested positive during COVID-19 rapid testing conducted at a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Temboro village, Magetan regency, East Java, whi

The National Commission for the Protection of Indonesian Children (KPAI) has recommended the firing of commissioner Sitti Hikmawatty for saying that women can get pregnant from swimmin

Dili – Cuba's medical team is still providing attention today to the population of Timor Leste in the face of Covid-19, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus which has already cause

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has conveyed his skepticism over strict emergency protocols amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that there is no conclusive evidence

Yudha Baskoro – The Pondok Ranggon public cemetery in East Jakarta is starting to run out of graves to bury Covid-19 victims.

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Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Diponegoro National Hospital (RSND) in Semarang is offering drive-thru polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19, lauded as the only such

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The government has officially annulled the increase in National Health Insurance (JKN) premiums following last month's Supreme Court's ruling that voided Presi

I Nyoman Sutarsa, Atin Prabandari and Fina Itriyati – Amid the urgent need for mass testing to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia, poor people in the fourth-most-populous coun

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Under the blazing sun of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, gravedigger Minar wielded his shovel and dug into the ground.

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Harmony in a number of communities in Indonesia is at risk as perceived COVID-19 carriers are stigmatized, even by their next-door neighbors, despite posing no

Bisnis, Jakarta – The large-scale social restriction (PSBB) protocol imposed in the capital city of Jakarta and other major cities reduced the number of human activities and emission l

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Jakarta – The central government's ban on the Idul Fitri tradition of mudik (exodus) is likely to help break the chain of COVID-19 contagion in the country and may cause the nation's o

Lona Olavia, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has spent Rp 777.59 billion, or $50 million, on imported medical supplies since the coronavirus outbreak began in earnest in the count

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

Ari Supriyanti Rikin, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's coronavirus infection rate continues to fluctuate with 375 new confirmed cases reported on Tuesday after only 185 new cases

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

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

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

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

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

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The use of virtual medical services has climbed in recent months as people try to contain the spread of COVID-19 at hospitals and clinics in Indonesia,

Sausan Atika and Asip Hasani, Jakarta – Living in self-isolation is daunting for Bima Mahardika, a high school senior in South Tangerang, Banten.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Novy Lumanauw, Iwan M Putuhena, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially issued a ban on mudik, the annual exodus of millions of people from the countr

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) warned that the ban on the annual mass exodus, locally known as mudik, during the fasting month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Adib Khumaidi, deputy chairman of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), advised the government to temporarily stop public transporta

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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