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View all search resultsThe government is working to close the stark gap in vaccination rates between regions across the vast archipelago, which remains a problem even though Indonesia recently passed 200 million COVID-19 jabs and while a third wave of infections looms ahead of the year-end holidays.
3 years agoA coalition of human rights activists condemned on Monday incidents of intimidation against the family of human rights lawyer Veronica Koman and urged a thorough police investigation after an explosive package was sent to her parents' home. ...
3 years agoAt least seven people are dead in East Java and two in West Kalimantan after several parts of archipelago were hit by heavy rainfall and flooding in recent days resulting from the La Niña weather phenomenon. ...
3 years agoAll volunteers participating in the phase three COVID-19 vaccine trial at Padjadjaran University (Unpad) have been injected with the potential vaccine twice. The trial, which commenced in August, involves 1,620 volunteers.
4 years agoEducation and Culture Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim has allowed some students in certain regions to go to school, antaranews.com reported.
4 years agoAround 100 women entrepreneurs have been selected to join the two-month online training courses.
4 years agoThe North Sumatra Police's criminal investigation unit has formed and dispatched a special team tasked with finding three children from the province's Langkat regency who have been missing for weeks since they were last seen playing in an oil palm plantation last month.
4 years agoIn a statement received by The Jakarta Post on Tuesday, the fatalities consisted of 159 doctors, 9 dentists, and 114 nurses.
4 years agoIslam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab returned to Indonesia on Tuesday after nearly three years of self-proclaimed exile in Saudi Arabia.
4 years agoA Christian elementary school on a remote island of Maluku and a private school in Bandung of West Java are among many teaching institutions that have come up with creative ways to navigate the pandemic.
4 years agoThe Indonesia Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) needed more time to issue the emergency use authorization (EUA) in order to make the vaccine available nationwide.
4 years agoA recent discussion on environmental health issues and policies has said that Indonesia should do more to implement the One Health approach to prevent and mitigate future outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.
4 years agoPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo named six people national heroes during the celebration of Heroes Day on Tuesday, calling for the spirit of heroism in the battle against COVID-19.
4 years agoThe Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) has captured three Malaysian-flagged vessels with foreign fishermen on board for allegedly fishing within Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Malacca Strait.
4 years agoTuesday morning saw severe congestion as thousands flocked to Soekarno-Hatta airport to "celebrate" their long-awaited return of Rizieq Shihab, the leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).
4 years agoThe rate of COVID-19 testing in Indonesia has dropped after the long weekend in late October, an occasion of increased mobility that many fear will lead to a case spike, while positivity rates remain persistently high despite Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto's claims of expanded monitoring efforts.
4 years agoFollowing a fast increase in cases in the regency last month, the administration had designated 300 rooms at two hotels in Cikarang to be used as alternative accommodation for people confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2-positive if the existing facility was overloaded.
4 years agoThe government has disbursed this year’s grants to family members of 587 historical figures who have contributed to Indonesian Independence.
4 years agoThe National Police’s counterterrorism squad, Densus 88, has arrested dozens of people across Indonesia in recent months amid concerns about intensifying terrorist propaganda during the coronavirus pandemic.
4 years agoEruptions of lava and hot clouds, as well as other volcanic materials are likely to occur in the coming days.
4 years agoApplicants must be ready to work on three-month contracts and be available for shifts on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
4 years agoThe recovery may cost hundreds of millions of rupiah.
4 years agoAs of Nov. 5, the police have slapped violators with fines over 82,000 times with a total value of Rp 4.8 billion.
4 years ago“Palm oil needs a lot of land. Of course it will sacrifice the forest. Deforestation, land degradation and agrarian conflicts are bound to occur,” one activist said.
4 years agoTwenty-one percent of the respondents, or 150 people, believed that COVID-19 was a form of conspiracy created by “members of the global elite”.
4 years agoThe suspect's wives confessed they had been forced to transport illegal drugs.
4 years agoThe Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is set to help the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) probe corruption allegedly committed by Canada-based airplane manufacturer Bombardier Inc. in a deal with national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia.
4 years agoThe attorney is serving seven years and six months in prison for obstruction of justice.
4 years agoTNI soldiers reportedly attacked and arrested civilians at a dormitory and nearby houses in Jayapura after a traffic accident and a quarrel between two dorm inhabitants and a soldier.
4 years agoThree hundred fifty-seven inmates in the Pekanbaru Class II A Correction Center have tested positive for COVID-19, making it the latest COVID-19 cluster in Riau.
4 years agoThe National Police have detained a branch head of private lender Maybank Indonesia for allegedly siphoning off billions of rupiah from accounts owned by renowned e-sports athlete Winda Lunardi and her mother.
4 years agoThe nomination of the six historical figures went through a selection process in the Social Affairs Ministry and the Title, Order of Merit and Honors Council.
4 years agoThe most effective and safest vaccine was needed in a mass vaccination program aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality rates, said a KSP official.
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