President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has condemned the killings in Sigi, saying that the government would provide financial compensation to the families affected by the incident. 

Indonesia's recovery rate has decreased to 83.44 percent from 84.03 last week, suggesting that the country was unable to properly handle the pandemic, Jokowi said.

Although the central government has given regional administrations the option to reopen schools in 2021, a recent study by the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has found that 83 percent of schools are not prepared for in-person teaching.

“They spent time doing karaoke on the bus. People usually take off their masks when doing karaoke, and they tend to walk around. So there were droplets, and the bus was a closed-off area,” the Brebes Health Agency head said.

The eruption lasted around 10 minutes and brought down volcanic material as big as coconuts.

Despite working courageously to defend their rights and those of others, female human rights activists still receive little protection and scant recognition for their work.

State-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II is preparing time slots for airlines that seek to increase the flight frequency for the year-end break, amid the long holiday conundrum. 

With a “build back better” approach, farming families in Manggarai of East Nusa Tenggara aim to emerge stronger from the COVID-crisis.

The government has issued a circular that suspends the issuance of documents for lobster larvae exports, effectively halting such exports indefinitely.

Four residents of Lembantongoa village in Sigi regency, Central Sulawesi, were killed on Friday in an apparent terrorist attack attributed to the East Indonesia Mujahiddin (MIT) extremist group.

The government had canceled the collective leave days allocated for Idul Fitri this year because of the pandemic, tacking them on to the end of the year to make up for the lost days off.

Several hospitals have reached full capacity and some are 75 percent occupied, exceeding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) suggestion of 60 percent capacity.

“The results show that the public is still not proficient at identifying false information even though people are likely getting more exposed to the internet,” KIC research director Mulya Amri said recently.

A health expert has urged Jakartans to keep their masks on at home unless they are certain they heeded health advice properly.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called on parents to stay cautious and patiently continue assisting their children in remote learning, suggesting that the majority of schools across the country would still be closed for the remainder of the year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the third time a mayor of the city has been nabbed by the antigraft body.

Under the agreement, Indonesia will be eligible to receive up to US$ 110 million for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation until 2025.

“The new wage formula will be based on their workload, scope of responsibility and work risks,” the acting BKN spokesman said.

The pastor has denied all the allegations, which he said were based on an "anonymous" letter.

The Indonesian Biodiversity Conservation Trust Fund (Kehati) Foundation bestowed awards to five individuals and a private company on Friday for their significant contributions in protecting the country's biodiversity through their actions and activism.

“If they [FPI] violate the agreement, we will take strict action against them,” Dudung said as quoted by kompas.com on Wednesday.

Indonesia's commitment to environmentally friendly and sustainable development is not for a want of trying. But will the government be able to go beyond economic recovery when private sector concerns are also factored in?

State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma is still waiting for results from the phase three clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac Biotech for the vaccine to be authorized for public use.

A health expert has called for greater anticipatory measures ahead of the yearend holiday season, learning from the latest spike in COVID-19 cases ensuing from the long holiday weekend in October.

Friday's COVID-19 figures bring the tally to 522,581 cases and 16,521 deaths nationwide.

Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra, once a fugitive implicated in the Bank Bali corruption case, said that he had negotiated with businessman Tommy Sumardi to arrange for his return to Indonesia, with Tommy initially asking for Rp 15 billion.

The prosecutor considers the sentence insufficient to create a deterrent.

The government is working to implement new categories of inpatient coverage for National Health Insurance (JKN) in 2022, as part of its efforts to restructure benefits for policyholders and ensure the deficit-stricken program’s sustainability.

Indonesia must contend with new confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths that are concentrated in several regions across the country, putting a strain on local healthcare facilities.

The government and UGM have launched the free distribution of the locally developed RI-GHA antibody test kit, starting with 11,000 test kits allocated to health facilities across the country.