In celebration of World Refugee Day, the UNHCR hosted a cooking event where refugees and locals relished in each others’ cuisines amid long-standing rights issues for the former.

With the government and lawmakers seemingly dragging their feet in providing better protection for Indonesian domestic workers, activists have set out to fight for their rights on the international stage.

G20 countries have provisionally agreed to set up a multi-billion dollar fund that health officials have said will finance efforts like surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, among others.

The government has pledged to push for a swift ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPED) in the House of Representatives, after more than a decade of delays.

Health authorities are bracing for the possibility of another wave of COVID-19 infections following the detection of the country’s first local transmissions of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron.

A new bill initiated by House lawmakers has won unanimous endorsement from Baleg, with several landmark provisions supporting pregnant women, especially working women.

Of 17 government agencies, local administrations and city-owned companies selected for top performance, BPOM and the East Java provincial government won the outstanding achievement award for their responses to public complaints, their use of technology to improve the responses as well as for providing legal framework that would allow the response system to be sustainable.

Indonesia is edging closer to becoming a vaccine hub, as a number of locally developed COVID-19 vaccines enter advanced stages of clinical trials and are expected to be mass-produced in the next few months.

Indonesia announced on Friday its first cases of the highly contagious Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 as the country starts to see an uptick in transmission following the Idul Fitri holiday season last month, which saw tens of millions of people traveling across the archipelago.

The government has continued to ease COVID-19 curbs throughout the country but has refuted any plans of scrapping the four-tiered public activity restriction (PPKM) system anytime soon, saying it will monitor the health situation before making any decisions.

Indonesia has committed to chipping in US$50 million to a financial intermediary fund (FIF) recently established by the Group of 20 nations that aims to address financing gaps for pandemic preparedness.

Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, 47, was arrested in Lampung late Tuesday and flown to the capital Jakarta, national police spokesman Insp. Gen. Dedi Prasetyo told journalists.

“We are doing this to preserve the history and cultural heritage of the archipelago,” minister Luhut Panjaitan said on Sunday.

Indonesia has joined in the chorus of Muslim majority countries condemning Indian politicians whose remarks are deemed to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

Scientists say that the government needs to go beyond human in preparing for the next pandemic, including sustainable development and the One Health approach.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil's family has announced the death of his eldest son who has been reported missing since May 26 after he was swept away by strong currents while swimming in the Aare River in Bern, Switzerland.

Albanese and his cabinet members are scheduled to visit Jakarta from Sunday to Tuesday in what experts see as Australia’s reprioritizing Indonesia in its diplomacy while remaining anchored to its Western allies.

Many parents believe that two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic have taught their children the importance of health protocols in school.

Rights groups bemoan the insufficient protection afforded to women in the revision of the Criminal Code, which the government has promised to strengthen after the newly enacted Sexual Violence Law watered down points on coerced abortion and rape.

Twelve more countries have been added to Indonesia's visa on arrival eligibility scheme, part of a larger drive to relax COVID-19 restrictions and spur economic recovery.

The AGO attorneys will draft an indictment of human rights violations that occurred in Paniai, Papua.

The Jakarta Post contributor Rita Widiadana spoke by video link with University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC) professor Jeffrey Drope, the lead author of the Tobacco Atlas, a worldwide public health report.

Ahmad Syafii Maarif, an icon of pluralism and an intellectual force of nature for a generation of progressive Muslims in the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy, died on Friday at Muhammadiyah Hospital in Sleman, Yogyakarta, just four days shy of his 87th birthday.

The government is increasing its vigilance over the potential emergence of monkeypox in the country, after several cases were detected in Australia.

A new report by Amnesty International Indonesia has revealed that the number of death penalty cases peaked during COVID-19, correlating it to the lack of in-person hearings.

Local environmental groups have noted that no regulation is in place to stop the hunting, abuse or trade of the monkey species.

United Nations Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed has applauded Indonesia's efforts to protect its 270 million people from COVID-19.

The Fifth World Reconstruction Conference (WRC5) noted how the pandemic have changed opportunities for social, infrastructural, and economic recovery. 

Although stating it was still too early to drop the four-tiered public activity restriction (PPKM) system, the government has continued to ease pandemic curbs with more cities and regencies now under the lowest level of PPKM.

Adenovirus infection and post-COVID-19 infection are among a number of working hypotheses the government is investigating regarding the mysterious cause of the outbreak that has infected children across the globe.