Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Indonesia currently has the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in Asia, between 8 – 9 percent, owing to

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) imposed in Greater Jakarta are set to be extended and expanded, leaders of the capital city's satellite cities have s

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – A researcher from Singapore University of Technology and Design, Jianxi Luo, predicted in a research report received by Tempo on Monday, April 27, 2020, that th

Li-Li Chen – Many Southeast Asian countries adopted a state of emergency to combat COVID-19.

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – It has been almost two months since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first COVID-19 cases in the country, which has since been gripped by fear as t

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's Covid-19 Task Force received shipment of sophisticated laboratory equipment for coronavirus infection diagnostic testing from Chi

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported on Sunday that 19,648 patients were under strict observation for suspected coronavirus infection, as lab tests were limited due to a lack

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia may be prolonged under its current strategy of imposing large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), with the number of confirmed

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Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has claimed that the central government increased its COVID-19 testing capacity to 12,000 per day, showing a wide discrepancy wi

The National Commission for the Protection of Indonesian Children (KPAI) has recommended the firing of commissioner Sitti Hikmawatty for saying that women can get pregnant from swimmin

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – More people tested positive during COVID-19 rapid testing conducted at a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Temboro village, Magetan regency, East Java, whi

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – A shortage of reagents is interfering with the government's efforts to ramp up much-needed mass testing for the coronavirus, posing another challenge fo

Dili – Cuba's medical team is still providing attention today to the population of Timor Leste in the face of Covid-19, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus which has already cause

Dili – East Timor announced on Friday that a nurse at a centre caring for patients with COVID-19 had been infected by the coronavirus, the first medical worker in the tiny Southeast As

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has conveyed his skepticism over strict emergency protocols amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that there is no conclusive evidence

Yudha Baskoro – The Pondok Ranggon public cemetery in East Jakarta is starting to run out of graves to bury Covid-19 victims.

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Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Diponegoro National Hospital (RSND) in Semarang is offering drive-thru polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19, lauded as the only such

I Nyoman Sutarsa, Atin Prabandari and Fina Itriyati – Amid the urgent need for mass testing to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia, poor people in the fourth-most-populous coun

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Under the blazing sun of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, gravedigger Minar wielded his shovel and dug into the ground.

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The government has officially annulled the increase in National Health Insurance (JKN) premiums following last month's Supreme Court's ruling that voided Presi

Bisnis, Jakarta – The large-scale social restriction (PSBB) protocol imposed in the capital city of Jakarta and other major cities reduced the number of human activities and emission l

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Harmony in a number of communities in Indonesia is at risk as perceived COVID-19 carriers are stigmatized, even by their next-door neighbors, despite posing no

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Jakarta – The central government's ban on the Idul Fitri tradition of mudik (exodus) is likely to help break the chain of COVID-19 contagion in the country and may cause the nation's o

Lona Olavia, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has spent Rp 777.59 billion, or $50 million, on imported medical supplies since the coronavirus outbreak began in earnest in the count

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – People around the world are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic differently. Some are anxious, others unperturbed.

Ari Supriyanti Rikin, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's coronavirus infection rate continues to fluctuate with 375 new confirmed cases reported on Tuesday after only 185 new cases

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives have expressed dissatisfaction about President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's newly announced ban on the Idul Fitri tradition o

Jakarta – The Covid-19 outbreak has prompted members of the public to launch their own crowdsourced databases on the spread of the virus in their respective communities in a bid to she

Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia will ban the mass exodus tradition, locally known as mudik, at the end of the Muslim fasting month in May in a bid to curb the spread of coronavir

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Febriana Firdaus – Indonesia has banned an annual homecoming in which tens of millions of people travel to see their families for Eid-al-Fitr, fearing the mass ex

A patient under observation (PDP) for possible coronavirus infection left isolation from a hospital in the Central Java city of Tegal over the weekend, with his wife reportedly aiding

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The use of virtual medical services has climbed in recent months as people try to contain the spread of COVID-19 at hospitals and clinics in Indonesia,

Sausan Atika and Asip Hasani, Jakarta – Living in self-isolation is daunting for Bima Mahardika, a high school senior in South Tangerang, Banten.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Novy Lumanauw, Iwan M Putuhena, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially issued a ban on mudik, the annual exodus of millions of people from the countr

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) warned that the ban on the annual mass exodus, locally known as mudik, during the fasting month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Adib Khumaidi, deputy chairman of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), advised the government to temporarily stop public transporta

Jakarta – Indonesia's death toll from the coronavirus has likely reached 1,000, nearly double the official figure of 582, Indonesian Doctors' Association (IDI) chairman Daeng Faqih was

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Asip Hasani, Blitar, East Java – The Surabaya municipal administration and two regencies of its greater metropolitan area, Gresik and Sidoarjo, decided on Sunday to apply to the Health

Dina Manafe, Anselmus Bata, Jakarta – Indonesia received a shipment of 50,000 reagents from South Korea on Sunday which the government will use to boost the number of polymerase chain

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The head of the national task force for COVID-19 mitigation, Doni Monardo, admitted that the enforcement of the large-scale social restrictions or PSBB in Jakar

M Julnis Firmansyah, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Not using face masks has been recorded to be the most common offense during the implementation of the Large Scale Social

When all else fails, one way to convince Indonesians to self-isolate, as we've seen before with the pocong guards, is to spook them into compliance.

Jakarta – After weeks of bleak outlook in its struggle to end the coronavirus outbreak, Indonesia saw some promising signs on Monday with a sharp drop in daily new cases and a lot more

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to climb in Indonesia and large-scale social restrictions remain in place across the country, it is easy to lose sig

Jakarta – Nurse Ika Dewi Maharani knew when cases of COVID-19 started to climb that she needed to do something.

Jakarta – The Bethel Indonesia School of Theology in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, has been designated a "red zone" following mounting reports of COVID-19 cases in its vicinity.