Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – After around two months of coronavirus restrictions in four provinces and 26 cities, the government is planning to ease the restrictions, but has yet

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has decided to extend the period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to the end of June as Indonesia's capital city enter

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has increased the COVID-19 testing target to 20,000 samples per day as new cases mount in several regions of the archipelag

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 684 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday in a worrying start into the month, as projected Covid-19 peak is increasingly becomin

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Experts and volunteers with the LaporCovid-19 (Report Covid-19) community movement have warned of a potentially tumultuous "new normal" period following t

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's National Covid-19 Task Force denied claims the country is trying to reach herd immunity to try to put an end to the Covid-19 pandem

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is set to begin implementing "new normal" protocols this week.

Jakarta – Surabaya in East Java has turned into a "black zone" as the region recorded nearly 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday.

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Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has suggested the government should carry out simulations of the "new normal" health protocol to make sure the public understands it

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) Head of Epidemiology, Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono strongly suggests that the Jakarta administration should only loosen its COVID-19 social

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government's plan to gradually reopen places of worship has drawn mixed responses from religious groups and health experts, many of whom insist th

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Hardly ever mentioned alongside other front-line health workers like doctors and nurses, laboratory workers in Indonesia are grappling with an unprecedented

Jakarta – Riau Islands' Batam COVID-10 task force declared HOG Eden Park church a new cluster in Batam on Sunday after 26 of its congregation members tested positive for the virus.

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – A recent study by the Health Ministry and the United Nations Children's Fund found that 84 percent of immunization services in Indonesia have been disrupted b

Jakarta – The number of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based testing for coronavirus has met the daily target of 10,000 for the sixth consecutive day on Monday, despite taking more th

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday received a shipment of medical equipment worth a total of $760,000 from three United Nations organizations – the United Nations Development Pr

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Some 100 regencies and municipalities labeled as green zones and have not been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak can start "new-normal" measures, the gove

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Dili – President Francisco Guterres Lu Olo swore in eight new cabinet members on Friday. For the first time a woman has become deputy prime minister in Timor-Leste.

Jakarta – The ongoing feud between East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa and Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini aka Risma over how to handle the COVID-19 outbreak in virus-stricken E

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry has issued new guidelines for houses of worship, which are set to reopen soon as part of the so-called "new normal" after b

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 700 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday to bring the country's total to 26,473 and conclude the toughest month since the country'

Dina Manafe, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of patients recovering from coronavirus in Indonesia hit a new record of 523 on Saturday, almost double the previous record of 285 on

Jakarta – A 100-year-old woman in Surabaya, East Java, has recovered from COVID-19 after spending a month in the hospital.

Jakarta – Authorities in East Jakarta are readying the city-owned Pulogadung Sports Hall as a quarantine center for people returning to Jakarta after the Idul Fitri holiday who do not

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The World Bank has agreed to provide a US$250 million loan to support Indonesia's COVID-19 response, the organization's board of executive directors annou

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 678 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Friday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 25,216 in the toughest week since

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – As Indonesia has yet to see the curve of COVID-19 infection flatten, the government's decision to roll out guidelines on easing COVID-19 restrictions under it

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – On April 3, Indonesia released two regulations, a government regulation and a Health Ministry regulation, to pave the way for large-scale social restrictions (

Bengkulu, Indonesia – Indonesian officials are forcing social distancing violators to recite Koran verses, stay in "haunted" houses and submit to public shaming on social media as the

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Publicly listed pharmaceutical company Kalbe Farma has signed an agreement with South Korea-based biotechnology firm Genexine Inc.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police planned to establish a database post to monitor the public's compliance with the health protocols during the enf

M Rosseno Aji, Translator: Dio Suhenda (Intern), Jakarta – Chief of the Papuan Human Rights Lawyers Association, Gustaf Rudolf Kawer, reported that dozens of inmates in the Jayapura Pr

Jakarta – The administrations of three municipalities and one regency, namely Gowa regency in South Sulawesi, Makassar also in South Sulawesi, Tegal in Central Java and Palangkaraya in

Jakarta – As Indonesia braces to gradually reopen the economy, the government has announced that the country's regions should meet two main conditions to be able to ease COVID-19 mobil

Jakarta – COVID-19 task force head of expert staff Wiku Adisasmito has said that Tangerang city, Depok city, Bekasi city and Bekasi regency have the highest risk of COVID-19 transmissi

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto has suggested that several regions, including Jakarta, might be ready to welcom

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Dili – The Council of Ministers has approved the request from the Integrated Crisis Management Centre (Sentru Integradu Jestaun Krize – SIJK) for the extension of the state of emergenc

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia will step up coronavirus testing and isolation of suspected patients in East Java, home to the nation's second-largest city and a major industrial hub t

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Indonesia's most popular tourist destination, Bali, has its local customs to thank for what officials tout as success in containing the COVID-19 outbreak, as

Budiarti Utami Putri, Surabaya – The deputy head of the Surabaya's Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) task force on Covid-19 handling, Arief Bakhtiar, said a number of hospitals in t

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – The Foreign Ministry revealed on Wednesday that 47 Indonesian nurses working overseas have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of Indone

Dili – The medical supplies jointly donated by Jack Ma Foundation & Alibaba Foundation to Timor-Leste arrived at the Dili airport by a cargo plane on Tuesday.

Heru Andriyanto, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – East Java reported yet another highest rise of coronavirus infections compared to other provinces on Wednesday and is getting nearer to

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The government has decided to allow places of worship in COVID-19 "green zones" to reopen as the "new normal" comes into force.

Jakarta – A family that has tested positive for COVID-19 previously attended mass Idul Fitri prayers at the Al Muhajirin Mosque in the Perumnas 1 housing complex in Bekasi, West Java,

As Indonesia's most populous province weighed tough movement restrictions to curb the coronavirus outbreak, it turned to a loosely knit volunteer group of data scientists and health ex

Jakarta – An unborn baby died in East Nusa Tenggara after the ambulance carrying the baby's mother got stuck in a traffic jam where a roadblock had been placed at the border between Ea