Local leadership is key to teaching people about the health protocols so they can contribute to curbing COVID-19 transmission, say the local disaster official and the deacon of Malaka regency.

The graft sentences went beyond prosecutors’ demands.

State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma has confirmed that the COVID-19 vaccine will be priced at around Rp 200,000 (US$13.57) per dosage when it becomes available.

“We ask the police and the military to carry out COVID-19 tests on personnel who handled jobs law protests last week,” task force spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito said on Tuesday.

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the central government to evaluate its COVID-19 handling by prioritizing basic rights principles.

Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD has defended a joint fact-finding team sanctioned by the government to conduct probes into recent killings in Intan Jaya regency, Papua, saying the team is full of professionals with unyielding independence.

Judges at the Simalungun District Court in North Sumatra have sentenced Gernal Luncu Nainggolan to one year in prison after he was found guilty of insulting Prophet Muhammad on Facebook.

Nearly one year after being appointed as a Defense Minister by his political rival, former Army general Prabowo Subianto is leaving for the United States this week to meet his US counterpart Mark Esper; quite a diplomatic achievement after years of being barred entry to the country.

The National Police have arrested eight people affiliated with Save Indonesia Coalition (KAMI) for allegedly spreading hate speech and violating the Electronic Information and Transactions Law amid protests against the Job Creation Law.

Locking up people with mental health conditions in solitary confinement remains a widespread practice, despite a 1977 government ban.

The government says it has secured commitments for the delivery of 271.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Of that number, 30 million doses are expected to be ready by the end of this year.

Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto says foreign interference is behind the series of nationwide rallies against the Job Creation Law and called out protesters for falling for disinformation.

Defense Minister Prabowo is scheduled to visit Austria later this month to discuss the possible purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighters after his much-anticipated visit to the United States from Oct. 15 to 19.

The Nusantara 1 building, which houses both personal offices and meeting rooms of House members from all party factions, will be closed until the end of the recess period on Nov. 8.

Team to resume investigation in Jakarta to meet 14 day deadline. 

According to Tasikmalaya Health Agency, 171 people had recovered as of Monday.

With dozens of Indonesia’s death row inmates having spent more than 10 years waiting for their execution dates, one government official and legal activists are calling for reform of what they consider to be an unjust and inhuman system.

The coalition also claimed the omnibus law embodied an "epistemic crime" by using the term cacat (handicapped) to describe people with disabilities, a step back in the efforts to foster respect and equality for them.

Members of labor unions and the general public have once again taken to the streets nationwide to protest the controversial Job Creation Law.

Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir left the country with a team on Monday for official visits to London, as well as Bern and Geneva in Switzerland.

Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto, who also helms the national economic recovery and COVID-19 response team, said in a virtual meeting on Monday that the government aimed to secure 320 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

COVID-19 has killed eight people with HIV/AIDS in Indonesia, and 77 people with HIV have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Health Ministry has said.

At least 1,000 residents from six districts in Garut regency, West Java, have been displaced by flash floods and landslides due to torrential rainfall in the region since Sunday.

A 17-year-old teenager from Sragen, Central Java who was kidnapped when he was a young child has been reunited with his family after 11 years apart, all thanks to Google Maps.

Anies announced on Sunday that the city had entered the second transitional period and businesses, such as gyms and cinemas, could open under strict health protocols.

The contentious bill was passed into law on Oct. 5 in a speedy deliberation deemed legally flawed by critics.

Nugroho Sigit Riyadi, a 37-year-old resident of Manggisan hamlet in Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, has used his free time at home to produce wooden-made push-bikes for little children with his own hands.

The members of a government-sanctioned joint fact-finding team (TGPF) for the Intan Jaya shooting case have convinced the wife and family members of slain Papuan pastor Yeremia Zanambani to allow the body to be autopsied as part of an ongoing investigation.

“I will get a second blood test in December,” said Ridwan, adding that at the time of speaking he had not experienced any side effects from the trials. 

Each regional administration had the authority to decide which tourist destinations are ready for reopening.