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

Bruce Gale – "I just mixed up all the ingredients at random.

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.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Lawmakers criticized on Monday over accusations that the Health Ministry has yet to allocate sufficient budgets for basic health services for women and chi

Asulao Sare – Babies are plentiful in Timor Leste – almost seven per woman on average – and so too are health problems in a country where chronic malnutrition is rampant and access to e

Michael Holtz, Jakarta, Indonesia – Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustling capital, lies down and stretches he

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia may fail to achieve balanced population growth by 2015 without intensifying the family planning campaign to curb men's refusals to use contrace

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Indonesian children voiced their health concerns by urging the government to increase cigarette prices and intensify anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol campaigns.

Dessy Sagita – As someone living with HIV, Chacha said he was concerned by reports suggesting his much-needed antiretroviral medication may soon be harder to come by.

Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has accused politicians, community leaders and local governments of being in thrall to the tobacco industry to perpetuate the industry's i

Bruce Gale – An elderly man was left literally rolling in pain outside the emergency room of the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) in Central Jakarta in mid-May after being den

Jakarta – Amid public pressure to enact the Social Insurers bill (BPJS), the government says the nation lacks the infrastructure to implement universal healthcare.

The illicit drug trade, typically associated with the country's larger cities, has now spread to every village across the archipelago, an official from the Social Affairs Ministry said.

Nurfika Osman – With the United Nations warning of rapid world population growth, experts are calling on the government to increase people's awareness of and access to family planning s

Camelia Pasandaran & Dion Bisara – As Indonesia struggles to address poverty and an overburdened health sector, a recent survey has found that spending on cigarettes is the second-b

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – A ministerial regulation on tobacco control (RPP) currently being drafted is part of a campaign to undermine local producers, tobacco industry lobbyists

Jack Epstein – The poster child for Indonesia's tobacco culture is a two-year-old boy who smokes 40 cigarettes a day.

Jakarta – Researchers say Indonesia loses US$37.2 billion a year, about 7 percent of its gross domestic product, due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, high blood press

The number of new HIV infections continues to rise in a nation with few testing clinics and the continued prevalence of unprotected sex, the latest health data shows.

Ambon, Maluku – Housewives emerged as the third largest group of HIV/AIDS infected people in Maluku in 2010, presumably because of their husbands' extramarital behavior, according to th

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Dozens of students from Jaringan Mahasiswa Peduli Tangerang (Jampat) staged a rally at Tangerang General Hospital (RSUD) on Wednesday following the death of a

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The increasing number of bylaws on HIV/AIDS prevention in Indonesia is apparently ineffective at curbing the spread of the disease among society, an observer

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Ismira Lutfia – For all the talk of poor infrastructure and rampant corruption holding Indonesia back from its full potential, experts said, health is an equ

Dessy Sagita – As countries mark World No Tobacco Day today, Indonesia is still struggling to end the deadly addiction among its citizens despite overwhelming evidence that smoking is a

Dessy Sagita – Two years into drafting the 2009 Health Law's implementing regulations, the Health Ministry announced on Friday that the expected blanket ban on cigarette advertisements

Dessy Sagita – Efforts to curb HIV/AIDS transmission in the country are often hampered by religious leaders' lack of support and poor awareness of the disease, an official from the Nati

Jakarta – The Tangerang municipal administration – which is still continuing to pursue its vision of a more moralistic society through regulation – will in the near future likely be com

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Papua and West Papua has jumped by more than 30 percent to over 17,000 in just four months, an official said on