BPJS Kesehatan has started a trial run to eliminate the three-tiered health service system in its National Health Insurance (JKN) program, but some are concerned that this could result in downgraded services across all three classes.

The Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently hosted a webinar on Pancasila commemorating the late Muslim intellectual Syafii Maarif, who died in May of this year.

The government has declined an offer from the Saudi Arabian authorities to send an additional 10,000 Indonesians on the holy pilgrimage this year, citing time constraints.

Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates on Friday signed a free trade agreement, strengthening economic ties between Southeast Asia's largest economy and the major oil producing Gulf state.

Participating athletes must still fulfill all the requirements for visiting foreigners, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said.

Critics have repeatedly called for a review of problematic articles that they say may threaten democracy, such as one that makes insulting the head of state or other state officials illegal and another that requires protests to have prior government approval.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo arrived in the United Arab Emirates early on Friday, after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky in Kyiv on Wednesday.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ended a trip to Ukraine and Russia saying he hoped for progress reintegrating global food and fertilizer supply lines disrupted by the conflict, and offered to be a diplomatic bridge between the two nations.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Mariinsky Palace, Kyiv, on Wednesday, in a visit to the war-ravaged country to talk of peace and the impact the war has had on the global food supply chain.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed a set of laws on Thursday to establish new administrative units in Papua, in what critics say could undermine indigenous rights and stoke further tensions in the restive region.

The country's easternmost region, currently split between Papua and West Papua, will now be divided into five provinces, with the addition of South Papua, Central Papua and Highland Papua.

The presidential press bureau has announced that President Joko Widodo is en route to Moscow via Poland to continue his peacebuilding mission to bring an end to the war and help ease global pressures.

As Idul Adha approaches, the government is taking a variety of measures to try and bring the FMD outbreak under control.

Just after the President left for Europe, the normally discreet Ma’ruf waded into a controversial topic: marijuana policy.

The Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry has discovered a substantial discrepancy between the data it has collected from villages and the data gathered by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), which could possibly affect policy making and rural development.

A Rp 6 billion (US$402,000) annual reward will be given as seed funding for every new endowment fund successfully established, although the sum could change depending on an institution’s academic performance.

The world's largest living lizards are found only in Indonesia's World Heritage-listed Komodo National Park and neighbouring Flores, and just 3,458 adult and baby species are left in the wild according to estimates.

Lawmakers have pressed ahead with a plan to create new provinces in resource-rich Papua after securing support from local elites, as politicians aim to pass a set of bills that will lay legal groundwork for the major redistricting before they go into recess early next month.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was on a train bound for Kyiv on Tuesday evening, nearing an active war zone under high security, as he seeks to broker peace talks between Russia and Ukraine amid an escalation of violence in the beleaguered country – including the capital.

Surakarta Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, looks increasingly likely to get the nod from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to run for Jakarta governor in 2024 – although analysts say the young politician would struggle to best other likely candidates.

Critics have said Indonesia's strict blasphemy laws are being used to erode a long-standing reputation for tolerance and diversity in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country.

The recent government crackdown on hardline Muslim mass organization Khilafatul Muslimin, which is thought to have either funded or is affiliated with a number of educational institutions throughout the country, has sown fresh concerns over the threat of intolerant education in schools.

Health experts and medical professionals have urged the government to impose stricter curbs as Indonesia continues to record an increase in new COVID-19 infections.

The Personal Data Protection Bill could see a delay in its passage in the House of Representatives, despite a recent compromise on one of the main bones of contention.

When the National Mandate Party (PAN) officially joined the ruling government coalition with the appointment of its chairman, Zulkifli Hasan, as trade minister in the latest Cabinet reshuffle of the Joko “Jokowi” Widodo administration earlier this month, the opposition camp was already in tatters.

Deputy Law and Human Rights Minister Edward OS Hiariej said the House would expedite the deliberation of the Criminal Code draft and claimed that the bill’s passage was long overdue.

Megawati has asked her party members to wait as she calculates her final decision on its presidential nomination.