The patient’s family criticized the unpreparedness of the hospital, saying that the patient, who had planned to have a C-section, ended up giving birth naturally.

As Indonesia approaches the ninth month of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have revealed that many confirmed cases have been found among brides or their family members following wedding parties in Central Java.

From Oct. 6 to 8, the commission received and collected some 1,900 photos and videos taken at various locations reportedly showing police brutality against students, activists, workers, journalists and residents who happened to be at the protest sites.

The presence of a workers’ union in media companies has helped journalists face the risks of job losses during the pandemic, journalists from different media outlets said in a recent discussion.

The report revealed that 60 complaints related to gender-based cyber violence were recorded in 2019.

Twenty-two years since the 1998 student movement was staged by university students against former Indonesian strongman Soeharto, families of the fallen victims of the Semanggi tragedies are still doing everything they can to search for justice, even as their faith in the government dwindles.

Certain House of Representatives factions are seeking to resurrect a long-stalled alcohol prohibition bill.

Police found two 80-centimeter-long elephant tusks wrapped in a burlap sack in the suspects' car. The tusks were carved and filled with cement.

Friday was the first time daily cases surpassed 5,000.

“Justices are prohibited from accepting anything that is suspected of being related to a case,” a constitutional law expert said.

As of Thursday, Yogyakarta has recorded 4,399 COVID-19 cases, including 3,568 recoveries and 108 fatalities. 

"Based on information from witnesses and current evidence, investigators have named eight people suspects," Army Military Police (Puspomad) commander Let. Gen. Dodik Widjanarko said in a press conference on Thursday.

It is hoped that the clinical trial team will finish the monitoring phase by May 2021.

Behind the camera, one soldier says, "On my way to the airport to prepare to provide security for the [arrival of] the great Imam Rizieq Shihab. We are with you Rizieq Shihab."

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin has filed an appeal against a guilty verdict in a lawsuit filed by family members of victims of the Semanggi shootings over his statement that the tragedies did not amount to gross human rights abuses.

Indonesia has reaffirmed its commitment to align its post-COVID-19 social and economic recovery plan with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of its upcoming membership of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a Foreign Ministry official has said.

Whether the singer was in the sex video or not, anybody in the video was a victim if they did not make the video for public consumption, Maidina Rahmawati from the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) insisted.

Bandar Lampung, the capital of Lampung, faces a shortage of hospital beds to treat COVID-19 patients as the city has seen a fast rise in confirmed cases.

The COVID-19 pandemic has derailed Indonesia’s social forestry program, which grants local communities the right to manage state forests.

The team of Indonesian scientists conducting phase three clinical trials on a COVID-19 candidate vaccine developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech has said that the trials are still ongoing, despite the suspension of a similar trial in Brazil.

Local authorities have started taking disaster preparedness and response measures in anticipation of a Mt. Merapi eruption, earning the praise of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency.

The names of several current and former top officials were mentioned during the hearing of a bribery case against former Supreme Court secretary Nurhadi and his son-in-law, Rezky Herbiyono.

Social affairs agencies in the capital have recorded a marked rise in the number of silver-painted people looking for handouts during the health crisis. 

Ever since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo named his expert staff team last year, the wait has been on for the millennial members of the team come up with what Jokowi hoped would be "out-of-the-box ideas" and "leaping breakthroughs" to support the programs of his second and final term in office.

The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, who was shot dead in September in Intan Jaya Regency, Papua, has demanded that the military personnel allegedly responsible for the killing be brought to a human rights court instead of undergoing prosecution in a military court.

The country has seen its pneumonia prevalence increase to 2 percent in 2018 from 1.85 percent in 2013, according to the 2018 Basic Health Survey (Riskesdas).

A new shopping center, AEON Mall Sentul City, has opened in the West Java regency of Bogor. 

As the new aircraft heads toward completing its airworthiness tests to obtain a type certificate by the end of the year, its developer-manufacturer has an amphibious variant in the pipeline for reaching all corners of the archipelago. 

The patient was set to be discharged from the hospital soon because doctors had received the result of his second polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has awarded dozens of former Cabinet members and fallen medical workers with civilian honors, including an outspoken critic of the President.