The Health Ministry relaunched its COVID-19 testing and tracing app PeduliLindungi on Wednesday, renaming it SatuSehat (one health) and promising a more generalized health platform, but with the government's history of data breaches, experts doubt its capacity to protect user data.

Ongoing efforts to reform Indonesia's healthcare system following the COVID-19 pandemic might face major hurdles this year, with the threat of global recession looming and the 2024 presidential election getting closer.

The anti-graft commission said that Rafael, who served as head of general affairs division at one of the tax offices in Jakarta, was questioned on the grounds that his wealth report did not match his profile as an echelon III official.

Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi told the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had acknowledged and expressed regret on behalf of the state for 12 gross human rights violations in the country’s history, as part of efforts to improve protections in the future.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued a warning for potential heavy rains across the archipelago for the next seven days.

The South Jakarta District Court has sentenced two former police officers to three and two years in prison, respectively, for their role in helping disgraced two-star police general Ferdy Sambo attempt to cover up the murder of his aide-de-camp Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in July of last year.

The ministry has instructed health offices at seaports, airports and border crossings to increase surveillance of domestic and international travelers.

The Soekarno-Hatta Aiport Police chief Sr. Comr. Roberto Pasaribu said that 114 Indonesian nationals, including children and college students, arrived on a Garuda Indonesia flight on Thursday under the coordination of the Foreign Ministry’s director for Indonesian citizen protection Judha Nugraha.

An Indonesian lecturer thought to be missing after entering the United States via Boston was found by the Foreign Ministry and has resumed contact with his family and university.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warned the recent massive earthquake in Turkey should motivate Indonesia to prepare for earthquake mitigation as Indonesia had the potential to experience earthquakes with a similar scale.

After an uproar over an assault case that led to revelations about the lavish lifestyles of some government officials, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has removed a senior official from his position in the Jakarta Tax Office.

Indonesia voted on Thursday in favor of a UNGA resolution demanding Russia “immediately” withdraw its troops from Ukraine, marking the one-year anniversary of a war felt around the world.

Papua Police say that the turmoil in Wamena in the easternmost region of Papua has de-escalated, after 10 people were killed during a riot triggered by rumors that a child had been kidnapped.

Following his conviction to 18 months in prison last week, Richard Eliezer receives another leniency for his role in the murder of fellow police officer Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat as the National Police's ethics hearing demoted him to an administrative support role, allowing Richard to stay with the police corps.

Egianus Kogoya, the dreadlocked rebel behind the kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot this month in the highlands of Indonesia’s Papua region, is at the vanguard of an increasingly dangerous and media-savvy insurgency for independence.

With the government looking to move on from COVID-19 as cases continue to decline despite the dropping of pandemic curbs, Indonesia has begun looking for allies to lobby the World Health Organization into declaring the pandemic over.

The Indonesian Islamic University (UII) in Yogyakarta has denied that its lecturer might have joined an extremist organization after such rumors popped up following his mysterious disappearance abroad.

Indonesia continues to see a declining number of COVID-19 cases in the past few weeks despite the absence of the pandemic curbs and the recent discovery of new Omicron subvariant “Kraken” that have caused case surges abroad, including in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The National Police are of the view at this time that the information technology lecturer planned and carried out his own disappearance.

Prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office (AGO) have lodged motions with the Jakarta High Court in opposition to appeals by murder convict and former police general Ferdy Sambo and three of his accomplices against a lower court’s rulings in their cases.

Appearing in his capacity as a newly elected chairman of the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) on Sunday, Erick Thohir outlined his ambitious goal to completely eradicate match fixing in Indonesia, taking the fight to the soccer mafia, which has taken root in the country’s soccer system.

Just one day after the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) welcomed its new chief on Thursday, soccer fans clashed with the police outside Jatidiri Stadium in Central Java.

Police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of football fans who tried to attend a closed-doors match in Semarang, Central Java, on Friday, officials said, four months after the country suffered one of the world's deadliest stadium stampedes.

Two days after originally planned, the two sides have finally come to an agreement on a fee of Rp 49.8 million for this year's haj program, at no extra cost to delayed 2020 pilgrims but Rp 9.4 million more for 2022 pilgrims.

The panel of judges at South Jakarta District Court sentenced on Wednesday Richard Eliezer, the police officer who shot his colleague Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat on the orders of their commanding officer Ferdy Sambo, to one and a half years in prison, a much lighter sentence than the 12 years sought by prosecutors.

Despite plans to announce the new haj pilgrimage cost on Monday, discussions between the House of Representatives Commission VIII overseeing religious affairs and officials from the Religious Affairs Ministry have turned heated as lawmakers remain unsatisfied over the hotel and catering costs proposed by the ministry.

The South Jakarta District Court has sentenced two accomplices of disgraced police general Ferdy Sambo to 15 and 13 years in prison, respectively, for abetting in the murder of Ferdy’s aide-de-camp Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.

The South Jakarta District Court sentenced Kuat Ma’ruf, a private chauffeur of disgraced police general Ferdy Sambo, to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the premeditated murder of Ferdy’s aide-de-camp Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.

The government has portrayed the provisions on online felonies in the much-decried KUHP law as “good news for democracy” as they impose more lenient punishments than those stipulated under the ITE Law.

The government’s plans to reduce the number of number of international airports from 32 to about 15 is unlikely to have an affect on tourism, said Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno on Monday during a weekly briefing.