Antara, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat on Monday reminded the government to loosen its coronavirus (COVID-19) large-scale social restri

Hotman Siregar, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has decided to extend the city's large-scale social restriction, or PSBB, until June 4 for what he wished wou

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs is formulating a scoring system to determine if a region is ready for reopening under the coronavirus pandemic.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – After a number of conflicting statements from city and police officials, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has reiterated that a local mudik (Idul Fitri exo

Budiarti Utami Putri, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Social politics expert from the Jakarta State University (UNJ), Ubedilah Badrun, has evaluated the government's 'new no

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The latest data from the Jakarta COVID-19 task force revealed the number of asymptomatic carriers (OTG) testing positive for the COVID-19 jumped by 2,441 peopl

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – As Indonesia continues to report hundreds of new COVID-19 cases daily, the government appears to be preparing for the "new normal" by allowing people aged 44

Fathin Ungku and Wilda Asmarini, Singapore – Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian unit said it will operate the giant Grasberg mine with a "skeletal team" after a rise in coronavirus infe

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – At least 15 people have contracted COVID-19 after they opened the coffin of a resident who had died of the virus to perform a traditional bathing ritual, ignori

Asip Hasani, Surabaya, East Java – Epidemiologists from Airlangga University (UNAIR) in Surabaya have strongly criticized the East Java provincial administration's policy to allow mosq

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – After weeks of relatively low official numbers of daily deaths, the Health Ministry announced 59 more COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, the highest one-day spike

Jakarta – The Health Ministry's Jakarta Environmental Health and Disease Control Center (BBTKLPP) has stated that it will continue receiving and testing COVID-19 samples throughout the

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesian health authorities are trialing quinine as a possible treatment of Covid-19 while also acquiring other kinds of medication touted as promising dru

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Social media users are deploying the hashtag #IndonesiaTerserah (#WhateverIndonesia) to express their frustration over the public's apparent disregard for

Robert Baird, Dili – Timor-Leste has no active cases of covid-19 for the first time since its first confirmed case on March 21, say health authorities.

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Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Bali Police have arrested seven people of two alleged syndicates selling fake health certificates to people wishing to travel during the COVID-19 outbreak

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has issued a decree on Friday banning all Jakarta residents from leaving Greater Jakarta, with the exception of travel serving

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Padjajaran University (Unpad) and the Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java are jointly developing a new rapid COVID-19 test using antigens as an alternativ

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The National Covid-19 Task Force reported 529 more confirmed cases on Saturday, taking the country's total to 17,025.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Hospital letters declaring the holder COVID-19-free is being offered on a number of e-commerce platforms for people hoping to travel amid the mudik (exodus) ba

Arya Dipa, Bandung – An epidemiologist has claimed that the government's plan to ease large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) could extend the outbreak until 2024.

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – As illegal drug producers in the lower Mekong region in Southeast Asia continue to consolidate their operations, Indonesia has seen a decline in the price of s

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With medical letters stating that one is COVID-19-free a requirement for travel in Indonesia these days, some of the dodgiest entrepreneurial minds have been producing fake letters and

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Jakarta – A 20-year-old woman identified as AR was arrested and named a suspect on Wednesday after pulling a "prank" on the medical workers of two hospitals in Bone regency, South Sula

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has reported more than 1,250 new confirmed coronavirus cases over the past two days, the first time there were more than 1,000 cases in a 48-hour p

Arya Dipa and Tri Indah Oktavianti, Bandung and Jakarta – Jakarta's satellite areas of Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java have extended their large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) p

Ardila Syakriah, Arya Dipa, Asip Hasani and Suherdjoko, Blitar/Semarang/Jakarta – Indonesia's most populous island of Java has become the country's epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak,

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Blood supplies across the country are dwindling as a result of fewer people participating in blood drives during the fasting month of Ramadan and the COVID-19 o

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia will raise premiums for health insurance provided by a state company but also increased subsidies for the lowest rate, impacting tens of thousands of poli

Asip Hasani, Surabaya, East Java – Airlangga University's Institute of Tropical Diseases (ITD-UNAIR) in Surabaya has completed six whole genome sequencing analysis on genetic data of S

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo called on all people of faith to pray for humanity as part of efforts to ease the struggle against COVID-19 and join a glo

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on the public to remain patient and calm as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten the lives of Ind

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Confirmed cases of coronavirus infections in Indonesia spiked by 689 on Wednesday in yet another highest single-day rise to take the total cases to 15,438, i

Officials have placed 28 Tambora, West Jakarta residents on the People Under Surveillance (ODP) list after they took part in a congregational prayer led by a neighborhood chief who was

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government has defended its decision to raise Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) premiums after concerns were raised that the mov

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Volunteers for crowdsourced database KawalCovid-19 have renewed their calls for the government to release all of its COVID-19 data as the number of suspected C

A young woman in Bone regency, South Sulawesi was recently arrested after faking seizures and claiming that she was infected with the coronavirus at a local hospital.

James Massola and Karuni Rompies – Indonesia has recorded 689 new coronavirus cases, another single day record, as the country looks to be backing away from plans to reopen the economy

The mining company PT Freeport Indonesia has increased efforts to test for, and treat people with Covid-19, in Papua.

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The government plans to conduct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) "pool tests" in eight provinces that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, namely

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Stay home and make babies?

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has issued a decree that serves as the legal basis for sanctioning violators of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) and

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Syamsi Dhuha Foundation (SDF), a nonprofit organization representing autoimmune disease sufferers, has urged the government to pay more attention to people wit

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Nearly every region that has imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) has recorded a significant decrease in coronavirus cases, the national COVID-1

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia (UI), assessed that Indonesia could not apply herd immunity to suppress the spread of the new co

Antara, Jakarta – A researcher from the Research Center for Population of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Rusli Cahyadi, assessed that the government's idea that allows pe

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma has temporarily halted the distribution of Biozek rapid test kits following controversy surrounding the kits'