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Indonesia may open up COVID-19 vaccine procurement and distribution to the private sector, President Joko Widodo implied, while the country debates the faults and merits of such a policy. The president touched on the…

President Joko Widodo joined the chorus of world leaders congratulating newly elected US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, with the Indonesian leader saying that he’s hopeful of continued cooperation…

Firebrand cleric Rizieq Shihab, leader of the now-outlawed Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), has been named a criminal suspect once again, further complicating his troubles with the law since his return to Indonesia in…

Indonesia can now go ahead with its COVID-19 mass vaccination program after the Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency (BPOM) approved the only vaccine against the disease that’s currently available in the country. In a press…

Indonesia announced that it will extend temporary closure of its borders to all foreign travelers, which is now set to last at least until Jan. 28.  The decision comes following the country’s new COVID-19 restrictions…

The National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) has collected 74 body bags containing human remains recovered from the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 crash site, with identification of those body parts now underway.…

Rescuers have saved a victim who was buried under the ruins of a hospital destroyed by Friday’s earthquake in West Sulawesi, with video of the mission widely circulating online. As of Tuesday morning, at least 88 people…

The Indonesian government has restored flight occupancy rate to full capacity until at least Jan. 25, despite soaring COVID-19 cases and amid new restrictions throughout Java and Bali. The decision was laid out in a…

The government is set to extend the Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (PPKM) policy, an official said today, as infection rates of COVID-19 in the country’s worst affected regions have not slowed down…

Indonesia today received raw materials for the production of 15 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as the country gears up to begin its mass vaccination program tomorrow. The raw materials, shipped from Beijing by…