An Instagram user is under fire for offering a service to forge polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results for Indonesians who wish to travel outside of the city. 

An additional 1.8 million doses of CoronaVac vaccine arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Thursday, bringing the total to 3 million ready-to-use doses Indonesia has received so far after the first batch arrived on Dec. 6.

The new mass organization is also called the FPI, short for Front Persatuan Islam (United Islamic Front).

The Foreign Ministry has repatriated five stranded Indonesian sailors and has recovered the body of another who died aboard a Chinese fishing vessel in November.

An additional 1.8 million doses of Sinovac Biotech's COVID-19 candidate vaccine arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Thursday.

A majority of Indonesians perceive that corruption has become more rampant in the country, according to a recent survey by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC).

For the majority of people, 2020 taught lessons on how to survive amid tough economic hardship, as COVID-19 restrictions led to mass lay-offs and fewer job opportunities, leading to a more competitive labor market at the time when jobs are needed to ride out the pandemic storm.

State-owned aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) has obtained a type certificate for its N219 commuter aircraft after a series of test flights using two prototypes.

The research is expected to be complete in three years.

It took Indonesia less than five months since its first cases were reported on March 2 to surpass 100,000 cumulative cases in July and another four months to record five times as many cases, surpassing half a million infections in November.

A spike in COVID-19 cases is predicted to happen around Jan. 16 to 18.

Experts have urged hospitals to better manage the admission of patients, arguing that most of them were overwhelmed by the constant increase in COVID-19 cases.

The government has decided to ban controversial hardline group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and its activities, saying that it has no legal grounds to operate as a civil organization and that its activities often violated the law and caused public disorder.

“Don’t go out unless it’s very important,” Jakarta deputy governor Ahmad Riza Patria said.

The Foreign Ministry has said the German embassy staffer who allegedly visited the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) headquarters in Petamburan, Central Jakarta, is unwelcome in Indonesia after he left the country soon after a picture of the purported visit made the rounds on social media last week.

The Jakarta Police have named a woman and a man suspects in a leaked celebrity sex tape case for allegedly violating the 2008 Pornography Law amid calls from activists over privacy protection.

The government has diversified its forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine supplies to account for setbacks, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said.

A doctors' association has recorded 223 fatalities among doctors, while a volunteer group has reported 464 fatalities among health workers overall.

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) aims to complete its independent probe into the deaths of six members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) in January.

“I liken the new variant of the coronavirus to a person who changes his outfit. The PCR test still can detect them. We should not be too worried,” Zubairi said during a talk show hosted by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) in Jakarta on Tuesday, kompas.com reported.

Orders have started rolling in after the Indonesian government approved the distribution of a COVID-19 detector developed at a local university, the GeNose.

Central Java has decided to temporarily close 84 tourist sites in the province during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

The figure is a marked increase from 53 cases last year or even from the previous peak of 81 recorded in 2016.

The survey, which was conducted earlier this month, involved 62,448 students.

Uncertainties surrounding the vaccine candidates being procured by the government and the emergence of new, more infectious strains of COVID-19 have raised questions about Indonesia's upcoming vaccination drive.

Experts have urged the government to implement stricter social restrictions to curb COVID-19 transmission as fatality and positivity rates continue to spike.

Not everyone with COVID-19 needs to be treated at the hospital, as long as they manage to self-isolate.

The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) says 2021 may be a grim year for workers across the archipelago as the multidimensional crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over and the Job Creation Law remains in force.

National Police (Polri) Traffic Corps head Insp. Gen. Istiono has said there has been a significant decrease in tourists traveling to Bali.

Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Griffith University in Australia, has warned of a surge in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia in early 2021.