The government is moving ahead with a new program to clear the names of at least 39 political exiles who were stripped of their Indonesian citizenship while abroad during the events of 1965-1966, as part of the Jokowi administration’s reparation policy.

Just days before the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Cambodia is set to officially kick off on Friday, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo met with the Indonesian delegates at the Merdeka Palace in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, setting a target for Indonesia to finish higher than third at the event.

Police are investigating the motive of the 60-year-old suspected shooter, Mustopa, who was allegedly visiting the office to seek an audience with the MUI leadership.

Investigators from the National Police’s cybercrimes unit have detained an employee with the national research agency in connection with the “threatening” comments he made regarding a discussion over the different dates for Idul Fitri.

The conflict between Sudan's army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has triggered a rush to extract foreign diplomats and citizens by several countries including Indonesia, United States, Japan, Germany and Britain.

Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) chief Erick Thohir has announced the formation of two task forces geared to tackle match-fixing and to ensure financial transparency within Indonesian soccer’s governing body.

On Friday noon, the government recorded 2,067 new daily confirmed cases, bringing the total tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 6,771,072 since the first case was confirmed on March 2, 2020.

The government has claimed that the omnibus bill on health could better protect doctors, but Ombudsman Indonesia warned that the proposed legislation leaves a lot to be desired in terms of protecting patients against medical malpractice.

The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) found that the Indomie chicken special variant did contain Ethylene oxide but it is at a level that is acceptable to the standard applied by the agency in Indonesia.

Authorities are claiming early success in managing this year’s record-breaking Idul Fitri travel season, buoyed by reduced congestion during the expected peak of traffic counterflows on Monday and Tuesday.

Marking the comeback of a vinyl-record pressing plant in Indonesia after a nearly 50-year hiatus, PHR Pressing is set to resume domestic vinyl production in the country with a new pressing plant in Cengkareng, West Jakarta. 

As the seven-day Idul Fitri holiday period came to an end on Tuesday, millions had begun the return trip from their hometowns, while others took the chance to flock to tourist destinations in and around Jakarta.

Forty years on, observers and government officials alike have noted how The Jakarta Post has not only become the world’s window into Indonesia, but has also helped bring the global agenda to local readers.

More than 200,000 cars carrying returning travelers are expected to enter the capital each day starting Monday.   

In Jakarta, hundreds of thousands of Muslims crowded Istiqlal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the country, to attend Idul Fitri mass prayers on Saturday morning.

With over 1,000 Indonesians living in Sudan, the Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Khartoum had established a safe house as well as logistical support for its citizens, though currently it has only succeeded in evacuating 43 nationals. 

State-owned toll road operator Jasa Marga ends midnight Thursday the one-way traffic system from Cikampek in West Java to Kalikangkung in Central Java on the trans-Java toll road.

The government announced on Thursday evening that the first day of the month of Syawal, which marks the Idul Fitri celebration, will fall on Saturday following an isbat (confirmation) meeting.

Neither the President nor the Vice President will be holding an Idul Fitri open house, which they held annually in the years before the pandemic.

Public transportation hubs and thoroughfares across the country have been clogged with millions of Indonesians making their journeys back home.

Major seaports and toll roads are packed, while airports and bus terminals are also full of travellers looking forward to reuniting with their families.

Islamic organizations, lawmakers and Cabinet ministers have called on regional administrations accommodate requests to hold prayers at public venues for Idul Fitri dates that differ from those set by the government, amid reports of rejections from various local governments.

Lampung Governor Arinal Djunaidi has become embroiled in controversy over his alleged response to a student who criticized poor infrastructure in the region on the popular video-sharing platform TikTok.

In a bid to improve the productivity of civil servants, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo signed Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 21/2023 on Wednesday granting them greater working flexibility.

While the Health Ministry said that a recent uptick in the daily caseload and five new Arcturus cases were nothing to worry about, it still urged holiday travelers to take precautionary measures, including making sure their vaccinations were up-to-date.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has commuted the sentence of drug trafficking convict Merri Utami from the death penalty to life in prison, the convict’s lawyers have said, to the relief of activists who have long been supporting her plea.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has warned public officials not to receive any Idul Fitri holiday bonuses (THR) from private parties, particularly since these bonuses have become a popular guise for corruption and bribery following a recent string of KPK arrests.

The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), which perused LHKPN data on the KPK website, has reported 55 lawmakers to the House of Representatives’ ethics council for their failure to do their obligation as public officials, as mandated by the 2002 KPK Law and the 1999 Law on Clean Governance.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is calling on participants in this year’s Idul Fitri mudik (exodus) to complete their COVID-19 vaccinations before departure, as the government contends with the discovery of two imported cases of a new coronavirus strain responsible for case spikes in several countries.

Transportation observers are urging the government to set up a centralized mudik information database to accommodate travelers and reduce the public’s reliance on long-distance motorcycle trips.