The Health Ministry has scrapped a complex set of rules prescribing which vaccine brands were to be used at which stages of the COVID-19 vaccination regimen, opting instead to allow people to get any generally approved vaccine for their primary and booster doses, as policymakers shift toward treating the coronavirus as an endemic disease.

The government continues to ramp up its efforts to increase the childhood immunization rates, particularly in remote regions, amid outbreaks of various vaccine-preventable diseases across the archipelago.

According to the head of the ProJo supporter group, Jokowi is still eyeing a potential Prabowo-Ganjar ticket as the best pairing to succeed his presidency, but isn't showing his cards just yet.

The Bandung Corruption Court in West Java on Wednesday sentenced two lawyers, who had represented a Semarang-based Intidana savings and loans cooperative member, to imprisonment for bribing Supreme Court justices in order to secure a favorable ruling for their client.

Mochtar Kusumaatmadja was instrumental in promoting the concept of the archipelagic state, which allowed Indonesia to exercise its right over internal waters, and was later adopted in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Warning against the danger of identity politics, chairmen of the two most influential Muslim organizations in Indonesia, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, on Thursday joined hands in resisting the rise of primordialism ahead of the 2024 general election.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) grilled on Wednesday Supreme Court secretary Hasbi Hasan, who has been named a bribery suspect as the antigraft body digs into alleged corruption pertaining to case handling in the country's highest court.

Former two-star police general Ferdy Sambo, his wife Putri Chandrawati and their former driver Kuat Makruf have filed cassation appeals to the Supreme Court, in hopes of lessening their sentences for the roles they played in the murder of Ferdy’s former aide-de-camp Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.

Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD said the government would soon be putting in place a regulation geared toward protecting the publishing rights of news companies, as he called on journalists to combat the misinformation expected to come along with next year’s hotly contested elections.

Education experts bemoan the goverment's inability to come up with a solution to mitigate the risk of a teacher shortage.

Health activists are unhappy with the proposed tobacco rules in the omnibus bill on health, saying it failed to provide stricter tobacco controls for the country.

The President has targeted the provinces of Jambi and North Sumatra for accelerated road repairs in a bid to keep inflation stable while pointing to local administrations to take responsibility for the condition of their roads.

With hopes that some of the crew members are still alive, the Chinese ambassador to Australia made calls to the authorities in Canberra to intensify the search operation.

The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI), staunchly opposed to the omnibus bill on health, once again demanded lawmakers stop the bill deliberation, arguing that if passed, it may risk undermining the role of medical associations.

But she returned home last year penniless and in shock, saying she had been swindled out of her life savings by a trickster who now faces trial for his complex scams, and charges of murdering nine of his victims.

The SEA Games victory could be a good omen for the nation’s soccer fans, who have had to wallow in disappointment after FIFA stripped Indonesia of its right to host the U-20 World Cup last month.

The country’s largest sharia bank, without either confirming or denying last Tuesday’s alleged data breach, has said its customers’ data and funds are safe and that it is working with the authorities on the incident.

Data breaches still haunt the country even after the government enacted the privacy law last year, with the latest alleged breach causing disruption to services provided by the country’s largest sharia bank.

Activists called on the government to respond to the potential risk of oil, radioactive materials and toxins spilling into Indonesian waters from the Northern Endeavour vessel's decommissioning activities in the Timor Sea.

They call on Jokowi to honor his 2014 campaign pledge to resolve past rights violations through the intended channels and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The risks of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and syphilis heighten, as there is an uptick in cases in recent years, while the number of pregnant women getting medical attention against these diseases remains dangerously low.

Prabowo's ministry could lose authority over the defense budget in proposed revisions, according to a TNI internal document.

Around 152,000 hectares of forests across 108 customary communities in 36 regencies/cities in 17 provinces have been recognized as customary forests by the Environment and Forestry Ministry.

The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) and the Press Council have warned about the damage a recently settled lawsuit against Jakarta-based television station KompasTV could inflict on Indonesia's already declining press freedom.

As the government casts its sights on declaring an end to Indonesia’s COVID-19 public health emergency, experts are calling on authorities develop a robust plan to manage any lingering threats from the virus.

National Police investigators have arrested a man and a woman suspected to be behind the trafficking of more than a dozen Indonesians to Myanmar, where the victims were forced to run online scams, as ASEAN nations seek a stronger regional response to human trafficking.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named Stefanus Roy Rening, a lawyer of suspended Papua governor Lukas Enembe, as suspect of obstruction of justice and is detaining him for 20 days.

The Health Ministry is working with other state institutions to issue a recommendation to the President on the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, according to a ministry spokesman, who also urged the public to remain vigilant even after the public health emergency was revoked.

Southeast Asian leaders meeting in Indonesia will on Wednesday wrangle over an escalating crisis in military-ruled Myanmar, with patience in the ASEAN bloc wearing thin as its junta shows no intent to end hostilities and pursue a peace plan.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), along with the Jakarta administration, plans to offer courses to train civil servants and their spouses in how to live a more modest lifestyle, following recent instances of public officials parading their extravagant lives despite their wealth not matching their official incomes.