Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Hospitals are suspected of abusing the national health insurance (JKN) program to gain profits, including by encouraging pregnant women to deliver their babies via C-s

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Health Minister Nila Moeloek revealed on Wednesday that at least 1,500 children in Banten, Jakarta and West Java had been exposed to fake vaccines.

Jakarta – Burdened by a persistent deficit in the national health insurance, the government, earlier reluctant to try to stop the country's addiction to smoking, has announced a plan to raise cigar

Djemi Amnifu and Panca Nugraha, Kupang/Mataram – The spread of HIV in the nation's eastern provinces has prompted local administrations to raise awareness about the virus and roll out more HIV prog

Jakarta – When her first child was born at a private hospital in Malang, Nuansa Putri, a 34-year-old civil servant, immediately believed the pediatrician's statement that baby formula would make he

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In the wake of a major drug distribution scandal that has left many parents fearful over their young children's immunity, the government is preparing a regulation that

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Although breast-feeding is natural, many mothers would testify that it is not easy, especially in a world where commercial interests lurk at every corner, ready to derail mot

Jakarta – Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) chairman Tulus Abadi has called on the government to further investigate the fake-vaccine case, saying that a pharmaceutical industry cartel was beh

Paulina Quintao – The Health Ministry (MH) has launched a public awareness campaign since the President approved the new tobacco control law on June 2.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – It never occurred to Wulansari not to trust vaccines when she had her baby daughter inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and H

Jakarta – The government denied allegations that it attempted to cover up fake vaccine cases, saying the health authority had shown its willingness to confront the issue in its handling of similar

Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Gorontalo – Wijianto is skinny in build, but agile. He carries a backpack and a red and white flag.

Jakarta – Several hospitals allegedly involved in administering counterfeit vaccines are facing mounting pressure as the fall-out from the public health revelation continues.

Jakarta – Parents of children who were administered counterfeit vaccines at Harapan Bunda Hospital in East Jakarta said they had noticed irregularities when their children were immunized at the hos

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The East Jakarta Health Agency said on Friday that at least 197 children in East Jakarta had been given fake immunizations, following confirmation on the distri

Jakarta – The controversial tobacco bill has again been challenged for its bias toward the tobacco industry and farmers.

Paulina Quintao – The Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Southeast Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, said the three major achievements in Timor-Leste's health sector since

Hans Nicholas Jong, Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Pekanbaru – The recent discovery of a nationwide counterfeit vaccine ring has revealed gross negligence and weak monitoring by t

Paulina Quintao – Thirty types of medicine are currently out of stock at the Dili Municipality Health Center (MHC) warehouse.

Jakarta – Activists have raised suspicion of what they called "foul play" in the deliberation of the controversial tobacco bill in the House of Representatives, as the bill contradicts existing reg

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is scrambling to save children exposed to fake vaccines as they are, at best, unknowingly vulnerable to diseases they are supposed to be immune against

Wahyoe Boediwardhana – Tobacco farmers in Sumber Pinang village, Pakusari district, Jember, East Java, have expressed their opposition to the government's plan to ratify the UN Framework Convention

Cayla Dengate – The humid heat of Fiji is quelled inside the surgical ward of Suva Colonial War Memorial hospital.

Jakarta – The National Coalition of Civil Society for Tobacco Control called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to ratify the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO F

Despite having a smoking prevalence already among the highest in the world, Indonesia has slackened its efforts to control the tobacco industry in the face of powerful lobbying by business players.

Pandaya – "Just tobacco.

Jakarta – Indonesia, which has the world's highest prevalence of smoking, is facing an uphill attle to keep its burgeoning young population away from tobacco, an addiction that may in turn jeopardi

Arya Dipa, Bandung – A recent study has revealed that the number of victims of poisoning from bootleg liquor is higher in regions that have implemented a blanket ban on alcohol, a finding that may

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – Growing pressure from foreign NGOs demanding Indonesia immediately ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has been met with strong resistance fro

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With few commitments to curb cigarette consumption, Indonesia is poised to have the largest population of smokers in the world in the next decade.

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The controversial alcohol prohibition bill may have been seldom heard about lately, but the political will remains strong to pass it into law within the current sitting pe

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Health Ministry is pushing for plain packaging on all cigarettes sold in Indonesia to reduce the alarmingly high smoking rate, especially among adolescents, which

Jewel Topsfield, Gelanggang, Lombok – Thirteen-year-old Ayu vomits every year while harvesting tobacco on her family's farm near Garut in West Java.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is fighting a losing battle against cigarettes and the health community has not one ally within the government or among other elected state officials, as all

Jakarta – Indonesia and Timor Leste forged a closer relationship on Monday with the latter awarding medals of honor to hundreds of Indonesian Military members serving in Dili where they provided me

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – It's an excruciating way to die.

Haeril Halim and Margareth S.

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama will drop the policy that bans the distribution and consumption of liquor in the capital and will revert back to its old bylaw following the

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – Publicly listed beer manufacturer PT Delta Djakarta has expressed anxiety over the anticipated approval of a controversial alcohol prohibition bill, saying that the move wo

Paulina Quintao – Research of non-communicable disease conducted by the Ministry of Health in cooperation with the national university UNTL in 2014 shows that 1.5% of people in Timor-Leste suffer f

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The House of Representatives started to deliberate a bill on liquor on Tuesday that would ban producing, storing, distributing and consuming alcoholic beverages with

Edo Karensa, Yogyakarta – Bootleg liquor has claimed more victims, this time killing at least nine people in Banguntapan, a subdistrict of Bantul in Yogyakarta, police said on Sunday (16/05).

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police are planning a crackdown on the sale of bootleg liquor, locally known as "oplosan", after 13 people died over the weekend after consuming the illicit

Jambi – A considerable number of residents suffer from mental disorders in Merangin regency, Jambi, with local health agency data listing 205 people with psychiatric disorders across the province.

More than 50% of Timorese children aged five and under suffer from malnutrition, according to 2013 data released by the Ministry of Health.

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Health in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) has established a national taskforce to help combat the rise in antimicrobial resistance.

Activists rallied on Wednesday in protest against the 2016 World Tobacco (WT) Process and Machinery Asia event at JIExpo, Jakarta, in the wake of the finalization of a controversial tobacco bill th

Erika Anindita Dewi – The House of Representatives' Legislation Body (Baleg) has been quietly working to finalize the controversial tobacco bill that was already rejected by Health Ministry last De

Venidora Oliveira – Seventy-two percent of rural areas communities across 13 municipalities in Timor-Leste now have access to clean water, according to the Secretariat of State for Water and Sanita

Jakarta – Family planning experts insist that in countries like Indonesia, there needs to be greater engagement of faith-based communities to make sure everybody's sexual and reproductive health ne