The National Police said that a probe into a fatal shootout between two police officers had concluded that the surviving officer had acted in self-defense.

Activists have slammed a decision by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) supervisory board to drop an ethics probe against Lili Pintauli Siregar after she resigned from the KPK deputy chairperson post.

The KPK deputy chair has escaped an ethics breach allegation against her by a hair's breadth when her resignation was formalized on Monday, the day that the related investigation was to present its conclusions.

Thousands of housewives across Indonesia have come out in recent weeks to declare support for Ganjar Pranowo’s presidential bid, while experts ponder on the role of housewives in local politics.

The recent slight increase in COVID-19 infections and the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak among cattle – which has driven up prices of sacrificial livestock – did not spoil the Idul Adha (Day of Sacrifice) festivities for hundreds of millions of Muslims who celebrated the holiday across Indonesia on Sunday.

After waiting more than a decade, Sri's parents were supposed to make the trip to Mecca, Islam's holiest site located in Saudi Arabia, in 2020 but that was cancelled because the coronavirus pandemic halted most international travel. 

BPJS Kesehatan is seeking to gradually phase out its prevailing three-tiered National Health Insurance  hospitalization classes and provide an equitable health service system for all policyholders by 2024, two years later than planned.

The House of Representatives went into a month-long recess on Friday, with no conclusion to the deliberation on the highly anticipated data protection bill.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has flown into Bali for a meeting of G20 foreign ministers, which is set to be overshadowed by tensions triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The Financial Transaction Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) froze on Wednesday 60 accounts affiliated with humanitarian NGO Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) at 33 financial service institutions.

Employers are concerned about the ability to cover the costs of extended maternity leave and the impact it might have on recruitment policy, especially among small and medium enterprises.

Vaccine hesitancy has stalled Indonesia's efforts to increase its COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the wake of another wave of infections, preventing it from reaching its goal of fully inoculating 70 percent of the population by June.

The government has put Greater Jakarta under tighter pandemic restrictions after the area became the center for the recent spike in COVID-19 infections, while keeping most of the rest of the country at the lowest level of curbs.

The government will continue to implement the lowest level of public activity restrictions (PPKM) until early next month, assuring the loosened curbs would be enough to contain a recent spike in COVID-19 infections.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that his ministry would soon publish new regulations aimed at allowing research on the medicinal benefits of marijuana.

BPJS Kesehatan has started a trial run to eliminate the three-tiered health service system in its National Health Insurance (JKN) program, but some are concerned that this could result in downgraded services across all three classes.

The government has declined an offer from the Saudi Arabian authorities to send an additional 10,000 Indonesians on the holy pilgrimage this year, citing time constraints.

Participating athletes must still fulfill all the requirements for visiting foreigners, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo arrived in the United Arab Emirates early on Friday, after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky in Kyiv on Wednesday.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ended a trip to Ukraine and Russia saying he hoped for progress reintegrating global food and fertilizer supply lines disrupted by the conflict, and offered to be a diplomatic bridge between the two nations.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Mariinsky Palace, Kyiv, on Wednesday, in a visit to the war-ravaged country to talk of peace and the impact the war has had on the global food supply chain.

The presidential press bureau has announced that President Joko Widodo is en route to Moscow via Poland to continue his peacebuilding mission to bring an end to the war and help ease global pressures.

As Idul Adha approaches, the government is taking a variety of measures to try and bring the FMD outbreak under control.

A Rp 6 billion (US$402,000) annual reward will be given as seed funding for every new endowment fund successfully established, although the sum could change depending on an institution’s academic performance.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was on a train bound for Kyiv on Tuesday evening, nearing an active war zone under high security, as he seeks to broker peace talks between Russia and Ukraine amid an escalation of violence in the beleaguered country – including the capital.

The recent government crackdown on hardline Muslim mass organization Khilafatul Muslimin, which is thought to have either funded or is affiliated with a number of educational institutions throughout the country, has sown fresh concerns over the threat of intolerant education in schools.

Health experts and medical professionals have urged the government to impose stricter curbs as Indonesia continues to record an increase in new COVID-19 infections.

In a bid to help attain Indonesia’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency priority issues and to spur global climate action, environment ministers of the G20 will adopt a joint communiqué in August.

The Group of 20 nations are finalizing a financial intermediary funding (FIF) initiative intended to ensure that the world is better prepared for future pandemics, and they expect it to come into effect in June, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has said.

A regular symposium hosted by the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII) seeks to shore up more research on political Islam in Indonesia.