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JAKARTA (REUTERS) – An Indonesian court on Wednesday (June 3) ordered President Joko Widodo to make an official apology after ruling that his government’s decision…
View More Indonesia court orders President Joko Widodo to apologise for Papua Internet curbs
JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesia is probing how 2.3 million voters’ personal information was leaked online, the election commission said on Friday (May 22). The data…
View More Indonesia investigates data breach on over two million voters
JAKARTA – Indonesia has set up a team to gauge which cities should ease restrictions amid growing financing pressures that are affecting many of them…
View More Coronavirus: Indonesia to assess which cities should ease restrictions amid strained budgets
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo urged a cautious approach to lifting of partial lockdowns covering almost 100 million people in a string of…
View More Indonesia's Jokowi urges cautious approach to lifting coronavirus lockdowns
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – A powerful earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Wednesday (May 6), causing some residents to flee their homes, but there were no immediate…
View More Strong Indonesia undersea quake causes panic, no tsunami risk
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered ministers in his Cabinet on Wednesday (May 6) to use “whatever means” necessary to ensure the country’s…
View More Indonesia President Joko Widodo tells ministers to exert all energies to curb coronavirus
The number of detected coronavirus infections in Indonesia could rise dramatically as more tests are conducted. Local officials are worried as data from the country’s…
View More More coronavirus cases in Indonesia likely to be detected as more tests are conducted
JAKARTA (AFP) – From shirtless soldiers to teens suntanning on their parents’ driveways, Indonesians are soaking up rays like never before in the hope that…
View More Indonesians soak up the rays to battle coronavirus
JAKARTA – The head of Indonesia’s expert tem on Covid-19 task force has disputed the convention used by the World Health Organisation to measure the…
View More Coronavirus: Indonesia disputes WHO's method of counting the country's fatality rate
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – Indonesians can expect to resume their normal life in July, with a ramp-up in testing and isolation of those affected expected to…
View More Coronavirus: Indonesia eyes return to normal life in July
Indonesia has one of the world’s highest COVID-19 mortality rates, and is changing the way it deals with the dead. Medan, Indonesia – On April…
View More Indonesia's health workers brace for COVID-19 onslaught
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – For many Indonesians, especially government critics, Minister Luhut Pandjaitan is regarded as a troublemaker, while for government supporters…
View More Jokowi's much hated and loved Covid-19 frontman – General Luhut: Jakarta Post columnist
President Joko Widodo has called for greater transparency in the country’s Covid-19 pandemic fight as Indonesia grapples with the coronavirus outbreak which claimed more lives…
View More Jokowi pushes for greater transparency in country's Covid-19 fight
JAKARTA (AFP) – Reduced to sharing goggles and cheap raincoats, Indonesia’s under-equipped doctors are battling a tide of coronavirus infections that is overwhelming its creaky…
View More Sharing goggles and raincoats, Indonesia's doctors turn to donations to battle coronavirus surge