President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has reminded the national COVID-19 task force and committee as well as provincial leaders across the nation to balance efforts aimed at containing the coronavirus with efforts to revive economic activity.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has brushed off criticisms calling its move to alter its organizational structure "fattening", with the antigraft body saying it has tried to balance the number new positions with those removed.

The police had warned the organizers not to go ahead with the event three weeks prior.

The KPAI believes the government is unprepared and has evaded its responsibility by making regional administrations responsible for taking care of the necessary preparations.

Bandung has a total of 704 beds for COVID-19 patients spread across 27 hospitals in the province’s capital.

Bio Farma says it aims to submit its interim review of China's Sinovac vaccine to the BPOM in January 2021, with hopes that the candidate vaccine will gain emergency use authorization (EUA).

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak the medical community had pinned high hopes on efforts to tackle the prevalence of cervical cancer, which remains among the deadliest forms of the disease in the country despite it being the most preventable. However, the pandemic has disrupted mass screening and vaccination programs.

The TNI will continue taking down banners of those campaigning for a "revolution" or any other similar rhetoric, said the Jakarta Military Comman.

Three mothers of sick children are fighting for legal changes to allow the use of cannabis for medical purposes.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has forecast heavy rains with strong winds and thunder in West Java until Saturday.

Many children have experienced physical or psychological abuse at home during the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, according to a recent survey conducted by the National Child Protection Agency (KPAI).

Jakarta Military Commander Maj. Gen. Dudung Abdurachman has revealed that he had ordered his subordinates to take down banners in the city depicting Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab.

Nadiem said that regional administrations and regional religious affairs offices, school administrations including parents’ committees, as well as the parents themselves must agree before a school could begin face-to-face teaching.

A volunteer with the COVID-19 task force says some 2,000 volunteers in Greater Jakarta have quit over the controversial decision to support a Rizieq Shihab event with free masks and hand sanitizer.

SAFEnet executive director Damar Juniarto said the judges had made a mistake in interpreting the definition of hate speech under the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law

“Sometimes I grumble. Sometimes I get mad because she can’t seem to understand the material and gets distracted by gadgets,” one mother said.

“The fattening of this organizational structure is very problematic,” an Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) activist said.

A 34-year-old man in North Sumatra who sold a meteorite that smashed through his roof for Rp 200 million (US$14,000) found out later that he could have received 100 times the sum as the space rock is actually worth around $1.85 million.

Denpasar district court in Bali has sentenced musician I Gede Ari Astina, who goes by the stage name Jerinx, to 14 months in prison after finding him guilty of spreading hate speech against the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) through his social media account.

Indonesian women have been bearing the brunt of the financial and societal impacts of the health crisis along the gender divide, the Finance Minister has said, with data revealing greater pay cuts and income reductions, as well as parental and household responsibilities.

Vice President Ma’ruf Amin visited a community health center (Puskesmas) in North Cikarang, Bekasi regency, West Java, on Thursday morning to supervise a simulation for the upcoming COVID-19 mass vaccination drive.

State-owned train operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has announced that passengers are no longer required to take a COVID-19 rapid test prior to boarding the trains of certain routes.

"Muhammadiyah's role is very important, especially amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic," Tito said during the virtual commemoration of Muhammadiyah 108th anniversary on Wednesday as quoted by kompas.com.

Home Minister Tito Karnavian issued a decree on Wednesday instructing regional leaders to enforce health protocols as a follow up to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's statement on pandemic mitigation on Monday.

Although Indonesia's education system has grown more decentralized, not all local administrations have allocated their education budgets as required, with much of their spending going to teacher salaries instead of learning programs, a new report released Wednesday has found.

A Lion Air plane traveling from Jayapura, Papua, to Makassar, South Sulawesi, made a brief stop at Pattimura International Airport in Ambon, South Maluku, on Wednesday after a passenger gave birth.

The European Union has granted 2.5 million euro -- equivalent to US$2.9 million or Rp 42 billion -- to fund the project through its Team Europe program.

Two out of 10 Indonesian people live without safely managed sanitation, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data shows.

“We don’t have the finished goods yet, so we can’t just make guesses,” the health minister said.

Semarang State University (Unnes) in Central Java has suspended a student for six months after he reported the university's rector to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for alleged graft.