Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Fadil Imran says the force will be transparent and provide facts to support an investigation by the National Commission on Humans Rights (Komnas HAM) into the fatal shooting of six Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members by police officers.

If you do catch COVID-19, don't panic. Just remember to report yourself to the local administrator, chose the best option of quarantine, trace your steps back and notify people you've recently met.

The East Java administration says it has readied the cold chains for the COVID-19 vaccines and groomed some 2,400 vaccinators.

“We have set a program called ‘weeks of silence’, where we will focus on COVID-19 tracing after the Christmas and New Year holidays,” Sleman Health Agency head Joko Hastaryo said on Saturday as quoted by tempo.co.

State-owned pharmaceutical holding company PT Bio Farma has responded to the social media ads on pre-order COVID-19 vaccines, saying that they were still developing the schemes for the service. 

Without a proper COVID-19 response management, hospitals will become sources of infection for medical staff, says a general hospital chief.

As Amnesty International Indonesia celebrates three years of operations, executive director Usman Hamid looks forward to working with the younger generation.

The President also called for more effective cooperation with relevant stakeholders, particularly the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM).

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has said that the province will ban crowd-pulling New Year’s Eve celebrations in public spaces indoors and outdoors, saying they pose a risk of COVID-19 transmission.

Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD was quick to defend the government's insistence of hosting the regional elections during the pandemic, despite critics calling for a postponement.

The Jakarta Post has compiled a list of unique measures imposed by regional administrations across the country.

“We are receiving more parts of the puzzle from this incident, and we hope that the more we get, the faster it will become clear," Komnas HAM commissioner Muhammad Choirol Anam said.

Many pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in Indonesia are reportedly ill-prepared to handle the COVID-19 pandemic as the number of confirmed cases at the facilities has been rising. 

Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy previously said President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had ordered his administration to prioritize red zones in the vaccination plan.

The majority of rooms will be turned into isolation rooms.

Investigators had reportedly been tailing him and his entourage because of a tip claiming Rizieq and his followers were planning to evade police questioning, which is considered an obstruction of justice.

To measure its efficacy, the vaccine has to pass a series of clinical trials and be tested on a limited population. 

The patrol boat had given the fishing vessel three warning shots before capturing it and its crew.

Though the four have been named suspects, the police have not detained them as their services are still needed by the hospital.

The chairman of the South Tangerang General Elections Commission (KPU South Tangerang), Bambang Dwitoro, died from COVID-19 on Saturday after a week of hospital treatment and shortly after the region took part in the 2020 regional elections.

A 30-year-old mother in North Sumatra has allegedly killed her three toddlers because she could not bear the economic burden of caring for them.

For more than one decade since Jan. 18, 2007, Maria Catarina Sumarsih and a crowd of people have stood across the Presidential Palace every Thursday with umbrellas in hand, demanding the government to bring closure to past human rights abuses.

Indonesia reached 600,000 cumulative COVID-19 cases on Friday and set a single-day fatality record as the country’s outbreak showed no sign of abating.

A nurse from Salatiga General Hospital died of the disease on Thursday.

“We’re calling for this from our conscience,” one of the priests said.

The Bali provincial administration will allow hotels, restaurants and tourists destinations to hold the upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration under COVID-19 health protocols in a bid to revive the famed resort island’s tourism sector.

The Supreme Court justice was known for his role in handing out death sentences to convicted murderers.

The families of six slain Islam Defenders Front (FPI) supporters have spoken up about their deceased family members to lawmakers following their deaths at the hands of the police in an alleged altercation on Monday amid the police's move to name the group's controversial leader a suspect of COVID-19 health protocol breach.

Unwanted pregnancies have risen amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the back of restricted access to contraceptive services, women’s rights activists revealed in a discussion on Thursday.

It’s not free for everyone. The government will only pay for the vaccination of 32 million targeted people.