Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched a month-long immunization campaign on Monday that aims to eradicate polio in Aceh through the vaccination of more than 1 million children, amid slipping child inoculation rates nationwide.

A suspected Islamist militant killed one other person and wounded 11 in a suicide bomb attack, reportedly in protest at the new Criminal Code, at a police station in Bandung, West Java, on Wednesday.

To avoid a repeat of the elections in 2019, when nearly 900 volunteers died from overwork or health complications related to their duties, the KPU has put an age cap for election organizers and embarked on a campaign to recruit younger volunteers for 2024.

Home Minister Tito Karnavian has extended the lowest level of the country’s four-tiered COVID-19 public activity restrictions (PPKM) nationwide until Jan. 9.

Soccer league matches were resumed behind closed doors on Monday, two months after the country was rocked by one of the world's worst stadium disasters.

The health minister appears to have backtracked on last month's comment about a special policy for wealthy subscribers, clarifying that the national healthcare agency will continue to provide basic health services under a standardized “universal” scheme that will eliminate the current three-tier health insurance.

Indonesia has seen a spike in cases of acute kidney injury since August, with the deaths of at least 199 people, mostly children, prompting a probe and ban on some liquid medicine sales.

The National Police issued a regulation on policing sports events earlier this month to prevent any recurrence of the fatal Kanjuruhan Stadium stampede, but critics are wary of lessons not learned.

The soldiers, who joined the army last year and were based in Java, were also booted from the army, according to a military court ruling dated November 9.

A race for the kebaya is on the cards after Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Thailand announced plans to jointly nominate its inclusion in UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage (ICH).

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has inaugurated politician Muhamad Mardiono as his special envoy for poverty eradication and food security.

People in the above-60 age group are now eligible to get a second booster dose, but the government still has not budged in response to experts' calls to retighten social restrictions.

As hydrometeorological disasters are expected to pick up with the rainy season reaching its peak, Indonesia is encouraged to build facilities to better predict and cushion the impacts of climate change on disaster risks.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) reported on Tuesday morning that the death toll from Monday’s earthquake near Cianjur regency, West Java, had risen to 103, with 25 people still missing.

The government is back in the spotlight for failing to protect citizens’ data following an alleged breach of COVID-19 tracking app PeduliLindungi – the second apparent hack of a state database since a national privacy law was enacted in October.

While President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo received praise for success as a power broker on the global stage during a time of war as Indonesia played host to the G20 Summit in Bali, activists at home have deplored restriction of speech around the events.

Authorities have named three pharmaceutical companies and a chemical distributor as suspects in cases of acute kidney injury and associated fatalities stemming from contaminated children’s medicinal syrup.

President Jokowi raised the stakes of the new capital city project in Kalimantan by announcing Indonesia's official bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympic Games in Nusantara.

Health experts are calling for the government to reinstate stricter health measures under its four-tier PPKM scheme, which remains at level 1 even as daily cases have topped 8,000 and deaths continue to rise.

As the United Nations climate summit in Egypt is still debating whether rich countries will compensate poorer countries for the loss and damage from climate-induced natural disasters, environmentalists urge Indonesia to campaign for the issue and walk the talk by decarbonizing its economy.

Indonesia, together with the World Economic Forum (WEF), has unveiled the Ocean 20 (O20), a public-private initiative to reap the economic benefits from the ocean with a sustainable, inclusive approach.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo asked Group of 20 leaders to show wisdom and not allow the world to “fall into another cold war” as he opened the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Tuesday morning.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday urged G20 leaders to "end the war" as he opened a summit dominated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with Washington and allies heaping pressure on Moscow.

Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of G20 countries are gathering on the resort island of Bali with strict testing and masking requirements, even though such measures have been largely dropped in some member countries.

US president’s trip was perfectly timed, but not enough to fully win the Indo-Pacific over, observers say.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has asked the European Commission and the Group of Seven bloc to lend "support and flexibility" so that this week's Group of 20 Summit can produce a declaration, he said in a statement on Monday.

The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has lambasted recent intimidation allegedly carried out by a group of people including a team of pecalang (traditional Balinese security officers) during one of its meetings in Sanur, Bali, on Saturday and demanded the Bali Police apologize and investigate the incident.

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he would hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, in what would be the first meeting between leaders of the two nations after years of strained ties.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will call on the Group of 20 (G20) for coordinated action to address international economic instability and the rising cost of living in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his government said on Monday.

The immigration office has said that a number of individuals and groups are suspected to have planned a disruption to the Group of 20 Summit and its series of meetings in Bali.