The government recently tightened micro-scale curbs, known as PPKM, until July 5, mandating neighborhood units (RTs) and community units (RWs) in provinces where the policy is in place to coordinate with teams at village or subdistrict level to ensure the curbs are well implemented in RTs.

Attending the ceremony virtually on Friday, the US ambassador to Indonesia, Sung Kim, said the maritime centre would be part of ongoing efforts between the two countries to bolster security in the region.

The victim had allegedly blackmailed one of the the suspects, a nightclub owner in Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra.

Indonesia’s COVID-19 cases soared to levels not seen before this week, forcing some hospitals to set up emergency tents to cater to a deluge of patients seeking care after potentially contracting the Delta variant of the virus.

Indonesia is shifting medical emergency units in Jakarta to tents outside hospitals to create more room for COVID-19 beds, the health minister said, as authorities scramble to boost hospital capacity amid a spike in coronavirus cases.

The government expects the new guidelines to prevent multiple interpretations among law enforcement agencies that handle online defamation cases.

Rather than leading the "Race to Zero", Indonesia is still waffling at the starting line over its climate commitment, with the government yet to consolidate the deadlines among state institutions.

Indonesia recorded a record-breaking number of new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, just as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo defended his use of micro-scale public activity restrictions (PPKM Mikro) nationwide.

Parents are still hesitant about allowing their children go to school for in-class learning amid a recent COVID-19 surge in Indonesia.

Protesters have taken to the streets of Surabaya to demand an end to “discriminatory” gatekeeping at the Surabaya-Madura (Suramadu) bridge, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in Madura’s Bangkalan regency and inundated hospitals in the East Java capital.

The tighter micro-scale public activity restrictions (PPKM Mikro) will be in effect from Tuesday to July 5 to curb further transmission of COVID-19 amid the recent case surge.

Health authorities reported 14,536 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the highest daily rise since the pandemic hit the country last year, as Indonesia passed the 2 million confirmed cases mark.

The second arrest of suspected JAD members in Papua could indicate the decentralized Islamist group's departure from its traditional haunts on Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi, but could also spell more trouble for both the province and the country as a whole through its use of digital technology.

Indonesia reported 13,737 new cases on Sunday, another record high in new confirmed cases reported four days in a row, with Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java and Yogyakarta being the biggest contributors.

Nonformal teachers continue to be overlooked despite the nation's demand for more qualified teaching staff, education experts bemoan. 

Indonesia's policy on palm-based biofuel development might lead to further forest loss as plantations need to expand to fulfill national needs, international non-profit group CDP has suggested.

Medical experts have urged the government to impose stricter wide-scale COVID-19 restrictions to prevent the country's healthcare from getting overwhelmed with new patients as well as stop the virus from mutating.

Provisions on adultery and cohabitation that have detrimental effects on women have resurfaced in a plan to revise the Criminal Code.

Health authorities reported 12,624 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest daily rise since February, bringing the total number of cases to 1.95 million.

Jakarta High Court judges argued that Pinangki should have her prison sentence cut so she could nurture her child's growth and be treated fairly as a woman.

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya moves forward with a new relocation arrangement to settle the prolonged dispute between the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation and locals. 

Whether to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 is the top-of-mind question among many parents as the country records a surge in daily cases amid the countdown to the planned school reopening on July 13.

The shallow quake hit at 1:43 pm local time (0443 GMT) in the Banda Sea about 70 kilometres (44 miles) southeast of Amahai on the island of Seram.

Health Ministry spokeswoman Siti Nadia Tarmizi said on Tuesday that authorities had found 145 samples containing any one of three variants of concern.

Amid a series of threats to free speech in the country, the government is pushing to reintroduce colonial-era provisions that would make insulting a sitting president punishable by imprisonment.

Central Governor Ganjar Pranowo confirmed the presence of the Delta variant of COVID-19 that was first found in India, which has since spread through several parts of Indonesia including several regencies in Central Java.

The initial results of an autopsy on Helmud's remains did not show any indication of poison, the police said in a forensic report, adding that the suspected cause of death was chronic illness.

The Sangihe Islands deputy regent was a staunch and vocal opponent of the gold mine concession located on Sangihe Island that was granted to PT Tambang Mas Sangihe in North Sulawesi's archipelagic regency.

A female calf, likely between 3 and 5 months old, and a male calf, whose age was estimated at around 1 year old, were separately spotted on camera traps in the Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Java Island, according to the ministry.

The government says micro-scale public activity restrictions (PPKM Mikro) have been working effectively and has blamed the public and local administrations for the recent case surge.