A travel ban has been imposed on two persons since August and will be in place for at least six months.

With inoculation demand dwindling and the end of the pandemic in sight, it remains unclear whether health authorities could effectively distribute the planned tens of millions of doses of the new vaccines to the public.

The Environment and Forestry Ministry contends that there are more Sumatran rhinos in the wild than the less than 50 individuals the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently estimated.

The government finally seems set to impose an excise tax on sugary drinks tax next year, with the caveat that its implementation would depend on economic recovery.

In his instruction to Budi, President Jokowi asked if Indonesia could soon take steps to ease some of the COVID-19 restrictions based on guidelines provided by the international organization.

Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Brazil are working to present a common front at climate negotiations, the Congolese Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba said on Tuesday.

Former Constitutional Court justices have accused the House of Representatives of violating the Constitution by removing the court’s deputy chief justice Aswanto before his term ends.

The antigraft body has opened a fresh graft probe in connection with the battered flag carrier, this one allegedly involving over US$6 million in bribes paid to lawmakers for purchasing Airbus aircraft.

"The pandemic is beginning to ease off. Perhaps very soon we will have to declare it over," Jokowi said in a speech delivered during an event for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Five medical professional associations deplore the House of Representatives Legislative Body's decision to make the omnibus bill on healthcare a priority for deliberation without consulting them.

When frustrated supporters of the losing home team invaded the pitch in Malang in the province of East Java late on Saturday, officers fired tear gas in an attempt to control the situation, triggering the stampede and cases of suffocation, East Java police chief Insp. Gen. Nico Afinta told reporters.

The government says it has managed to navigate the “dynamic” global situation and hold a conducive penultimate Group of 20 Sherpa meeting, adding that significant progress has been made in formulating the G20 leaders’ declaration, despite rising global tension.

The government has stressed the importance of developing national vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic but it currently relies on China's Sinovac and the Western-made Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA jabs.  

Indonesia has increased its emissions reduction target to bring its policies more in line with global goals, but environmentalists say the revisions still fail to respond adequately to the climate crisis.

More police officers have been brought before the National Police ethics panel on allegations of ethics violations over their handling of the Brig. "J" Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat murder case, with the latest being Second Insp. Arsyad Daiva Gunawan who was demoted on Monday.

The Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency greenlighted the use of Walvax Biotechnology's mRNA vaccine, which has been in development for more than two years and targets the original strain of the coronavirus.

In his speech to inaugurate the new academic year, UIII rector Komaruddin Hidayat said that the offline classes would allow greater space for collaboration and participation by students and professors after one year of a mix of physical meetings and online activities.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in a statement that money contributed to the effort came from the state budget as well as funding by the private sector. The move was for the first for Indonesia to become a contributor to the initiative.

Following the decision by lawmakers to drop a new omnibus bill on education from their upcoming legislative priority list, educators are calling on the government to use this opportunity to thoroughly revise the controversial bill, amid mounting concerns surrounding rushed deliberations.

Indonesia is keeping tabs on the latest development over the recently announced Russian partial mobilization and hopes that the conflict can reach a solution away from the use of nuclear weapons, the Foreign Ministry says.

In Indonesia's happiness index released recently by the agency, Banten province, which is made up mostly of municipalities bordering the capital city, stood at the at the bottom of the list with an index of 68.08. 

Indonesia abruptly ended its previous accord with Norway a year ago, due to apparent disagreements and slow progress in releasing payments based on the results of work to curb forest loss. 

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is pressing for the Papua governor and graft suspect Lukas Enembe to cooperate with the commission’s second summons amid chants of criminalization by his supporters.

The United States’ newly sworn-in envoy to ASEAN will arrive in Jakarta by October to fill a post that had been left vacant “for a very long time”, Indonesian Ambassador to the US Rosan P. Roeslani revealed on Wednesday.

The newly passed privacy law has been widely lauded as a step forward in protecting personal data in a country facing emerging cybersecurity threats. But critics said that a lack of clarity surrounding the institutional design of the oversight agency and vague provisions on what constitutes a crime might lead to government overreach and overcriminalization.

While observers commended Indonesia’s receptiveness to the resolution, they noted that it was still up to lawmakers to realize the document's tenets. 

The Indonesian Foreign Ministry will hold the fourth iteration of Indonesia-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Forum 2022 (INA-LAC 2022) in October in a bid to strengthen economic relations and provide business opportunities between Indonesia and countries in the Latin American and Caribbean regions.

A Dutch scientist who is among a group of researchers reportedly banned from conducting research in Indonesia by the Environment and Forestry Ministry for their critical writings says he is concerned about the state of scientific freedom in the country.

The late prominent Muslim scholar Azyumardi Azra, who passed away on Sunday, aged 67, in Selangor, Malaysia, was laid to rest at Kalibata Heroes Cemetery on Tuesday morning in a state-funeral ceremony led by Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy.

State-run Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has found suspicious transactions worth hundreds of billions of rupiah after examining financial records of Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, who was recently named a corruption suspect, but continues to evade police questioning.