Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is being slammed for keeping the public in the dark about the spread of bird flu despite being aware of it since last November.

Karima Anjani, Jakarta – Indonesia's government came under fire from farmers on Monday over its handling of a bird flu outbreak that has killed millions of chickens, while officials sai

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Leony Aurora, Jakarta – It looked like just another rally on Wednesday, when about 50 people holding cardboard posters stood inside the Ministry of Health compound in South Jakarta, cha

Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – A legislator expressed concern on Tuesday about a price war among the country's generic medicine producers, fearing it would prompt drug trade in the black marke

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, has reached an alarming level.

Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – With HIV/AIDS emerging as an increasingly ominous threat, the government appears to lack concrete plans to fight the virus, non-governmental organization activis

Jakarta – As the globe commemorates World AIDS Day on December 1, Indonesia's response continues to remain dangerously slow while millions of its people continue to obliviously engage i

Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – On paper Indonesia doesn't have much of a problem with HIV and AIDS.

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Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Alarmed by the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has decided to revise its five-year program to includ

Leo Wahyudi S. – Many poor people say that hospitals, including those run by the state, offer them inferior services because they do not have the money to pay for quality health care.

Leo Wahyudi S. – The health services are supposed to be for all citizens, regardless of their social status.

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Dan Eaton, Jakarta – With the air of a trained librarian, the shopkeeper runs his finger along a shelf stacked with brightly coloured packages.

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – For Sumaryono, 24, and his mother, Iis Iswati, 45, hospital treatment is a luxury only for the rich.

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Lack of knowledge about sex, reproductive health and illegal drugs has put Indonesian adolescents at risk, while data made available by the United Nations Populat

Children as young as 13 are engaged in the drugs trade in the Indonesian capital and about four percent of all users are aged under 17, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said.

Jakarta – An estimated two million Indonesians have abortions each year, mainly through unsafe procedures, a researcher told an abortion seminar in Yogyakarta on Saturday.

Jakarta/Medan – Indonesia marked International Anti-drug Day 2003 on Thursday with grave concerns about the rapid growth in the drug trade.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – "Because I'm brown, that's why I want to be white." Westerners might still like the bronzed look, but in Indonesia women such as Yusniar are demanding soaps and

Jakarta – The sale of counterfeit medicines not only threatens consumers but also the pharmaceutical industry as the distribution of such drugs is now out of control.

Simon Montlake – As recently as 1999, Indonesia idled in the AIDS slow lane.

Arya Abhiseka, Jakarta – A noted abortion expert said on Wednesday the high number of maternal deaths from unsafe abortions was partly the fault of the media, which has failed to educat

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Compared to Papua province's population of 2.1 million, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases in the province has reached an alarming level with a total of 1,2

Jakarta – Indonesia has banned the sale of 78 brands of traditional medicine – some of them said to enhance sexual performance – because they contain hazardous chemicals, officials said

Sonya De Masi – Indonesia has a growing drug problem. Some research suggests there are up to a million intravenous drug users and the numbers are increasing daily.

Arya Abhiseka, Jakarta – Indonesia's role in drug trafficking has increased significantly in recent years as it has not only become a transit port but also a major producer.

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Matthew Moore, Jakarta – One thing about abortion in Indonesia is clear: it is easier to get one than to understand the law that regulates them.

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Jakarta – At least 18,500 schoolchildren – some as young as seven – are believed to use drugs in Indonesia, National Narcotics Agency chief Togar Sianipar has said.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – When you're talking tar, few cigarettes can match it with Indonesia's kreteks, the aromatic tobacco and clove mix preferred by 90 per cent of smokers here.

Religious leaders have requested members of the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police to stop backing prostitution and drug trafficking to help reduce the spread of HIV.

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Bill Guerin – Indonesia has some 200 pharmaceutical manufacturers and 1,600 pharmaceutical distributors.

Stephen Steele, Washington – More than three years after East Timor voted for independence, access to adequate health care, education and basic human rights remains out of reach for mos

Jakarta – An estimated 140,000 out of 583,000 current tuberculosis sufferers in Indonesia die every year compared to 2 million worldwide, Sri Astuti Suparmanto, the Health Ministry's ac

Jakarta – Drug trafficking and abuse in Jakarta are increasing at an alarming rate due to big supplies and easy access to it in the market, an expert said.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Jailed American nurse Joy Lee Sadler was rushed to hospital on Friday but was rejected by all hospitals in Banda Aceh for fears that her HIV illness would spre

Tom Hyland, Jakarta – The relentless techno beat is so loud your insides vibrate.

David Shanks – Dr Dan Murphy is at his most passionate when describing the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on the resilient people of East Timor.

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A'an Suryana, Jakarta – Shocking government statistics show that more than 25 percent of Indonesia's 18 million under five-year-old children are suffering from malnutrition.

The number of people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has increased drastically by 340 percent to 359 in June, 2002 from 51 in 1999

Papua has the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia.

Geneva – Newly-independent Timor -Leste, formerly East Timor, has just 47 doctors for its 850,000 citizens because of large-scale emigration, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Drug addicts in a crowded Jakarta kampung are being submitted to one of the toughest drying-out regimes around.

Jakarta – The number of people with HIV/AIDS has increased sharply in the northeast coastal areas of West Java in the past two years because of increased drug use and prostitution in th

Robert Go, Jakarta – They were originally meant to help the poor, who could get them for free, or at a very low cost, at government-run health clinics.