Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar will oversee the development of tourist destinations in four regencies of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) in anticipation of the MotoGP motorcycle race in Mandalika, Lombok, next year.

The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by family members of victims of the Semanggi tragedies against Attorney General ST Burhanuddin over his statement that the tragedies that claimed at least 29 lives were not gross human rights violations.

The police said the suspect told investigators that he had initially planned to kill himself after he thought he had contracted COVID-19 on Oct. 8.

Washing hands with soap for at least 20 seconds is touted as one of the simplest everyday measures people can take to prevent COVID-19 infection. But nine months into the pandemic, many people are still reluctant to wash their hands in public.

Rizieq Shihab, the controversial leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), is due to arrive in Indonesia later this month after having previously announced that he was soon returning to his home country.

The national COVID-19 task force announced that it was currently finalizing the road map for a nationwide vaccination program, which it seeks to begin in November or December.

Indonesia has lost at least 161 general practitioners, specialist doctors, clinical professors and other medial professionals in the eight months since the first COVID-19 cases were announced in March.

A military officer in West Java, First Lt. I Gusti Ngurah Supriasta Dyana, has been relieved of his duties after a military court found him guilty of having an affair with the wife of another soldier, who was lower in rank than him.

Most of the reports were related to layoffs and furloughs experienced by media workers.

Indonesia is likely to compete against India, Qatar, Germany, Spain and Australia in hosting the 2032 Olympic Games.

National COVID-19 task force spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito has noted a drop in coronavirus testing over the past seven days and has attributed it to the long weekend last week.

Family gives permission for authorities to exhume body to determine the cause of death. 

Learning from the spike in new cases that followed long holidays earlier in the year, the government has prepared several measures to anticipate a similar spike following last week's cuti bersama.

In addition to seizing billions in assets, the anticorruption body has named three new suspects in the Dirgantara Indonesia graft case.

Indonesian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Andika Perkasa has said that 14 Army hospitals have received mobile polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratories to help optimize COVID-19 testing in the country.

The low number of reported daily cases was not a strong basis to assume that the COVID-19 situation had improved, especially in countries with low levels of testing like Indonesia.

The highly contentious Job Creation Law that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo signed on Monday contains what some legal experts consider “fatal" errors that expose a flawed legislative process, which may provide strong grounds for a judicial review at the Constitutional Court.

A female Sumatran tiger, which was captured in August following conflict with humans, was returned to her original habitat in Gunung Leuser National Park in Gayo Lues, Aceh, on Tuesday.

The government is set to honor several figures, including former Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gatot Nurmantyo and former Constitutional Court chief justice Arief Hidayat, with Bintang Mahaputra medals in recognition of their professional accomplishments over the years.

The South Sumatra provincial administration has continued to carry out preventive measures against forest and land fires as it extends the emergency alert status until Nov. 30.

The government has named social media influencer Kristia Budiyarto an independent commissioner for state-owned ferry operator PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (Pelni), marking yet another avid supporter of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo being appointed to a position in a state-owned enterprise (SOE).

The government might face difficulties in modernizing the country’s primary weapons system (Alutsista) as much of its defense budget is allocated toward personnel expenses and maintenance of old equipment, defense analysts have said.

The Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has warned residents to brace for severe weather as Typhoon Goni, which recently lashed neighboring Philippines, moves toward the South China Sea.

The State Palace has downplayed typos and errors discovered in the Job Creation Law that was recently signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, calling them unsubstantial technical errors amid mounting protests highlighting the flawed legislation process for the controversial law.

A letter sent to Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah on Tuesday has addressed the possibility of mass layoffs among journalists at media companies, including The Jakarta Post.

The North Sumatra task force has started construction of a COVID-19 hospital for mothers and children to prevent a rise in coronavirus cases among pregnant women.

The punk rock drummer is known for espousing coronavirus conspiracy theories and has particularly targeted the WHO and the IDI in voicing his distrust of medical professionals.

The program aims to add more contact tracers in community health centers (Puskesmas) and data officers to carry out simple epidemiological analyses in 51 cities and regencies in 10 provinces.

Over 19,000 employees in West Java have lost their jobs due to COVID-19.

As the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint marked the 9th annual International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week at the end of October, Indonesia saw renewed public calls to ban lead paint through legal instruments.