“We are doing this to preserve the history and cultural heritage of the archipelago,” minister Luhut Panjaitan said on Sunday.

Indonesia has joined in the chorus of Muslim majority countries condemning Indian politicians whose remarks are deemed to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

Scientists say that the government needs to go beyond human in preparing for the next pandemic, including sustainable development and the One Health approach.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil's family has announced the death of his eldest son who has been reported missing since May 26 after he was swept away by strong currents while swimming in the Aare River in Bern, Switzerland.

Albanese and his cabinet members are scheduled to visit Jakarta from Sunday to Tuesday in what experts see as Australia’s reprioritizing Indonesia in its diplomacy while remaining anchored to its Western allies.

Many parents believe that two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic have taught their children the importance of health protocols in school.

Rights groups bemoan the insufficient protection afforded to women in the revision of the Criminal Code, which the government has promised to strengthen after the newly enacted Sexual Violence Law watered down points on coerced abortion and rape.

Twelve more countries have been added to Indonesia's visa on arrival eligibility scheme, part of a larger drive to relax COVID-19 restrictions and spur economic recovery.

The AGO attorneys will draft an indictment of human rights violations that occurred in Paniai, Papua.

The Jakarta Post contributor Rita Widiadana spoke by video link with University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC) professor Jeffrey Drope, the lead author of the Tobacco Atlas, a worldwide public health report.

Ahmad Syafii Maarif, an icon of pluralism and an intellectual force of nature for a generation of progressive Muslims in the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy, died on Friday at Muhammadiyah Hospital in Sleman, Yogyakarta, just four days shy of his 87th birthday.

The government is increasing its vigilance over the potential emergence of monkeypox in the country, after several cases were detected in Australia.

A new report by Amnesty International Indonesia has revealed that the number of death penalty cases peaked during COVID-19, correlating it to the lack of in-person hearings.

Local environmental groups have noted that no regulation is in place to stop the hunting, abuse or trade of the monkey species.

United Nations Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed has applauded Indonesia's efforts to protect its 270 million people from COVID-19.

The Fifth World Reconstruction Conference (WRC5) noted how the pandemic have changed opportunities for social, infrastructural, and economic recovery. 

Although stating it was still too early to drop the four-tiered public activity restriction (PPKM) system, the government has continued to ease pandemic curbs with more cities and regencies now under the lowest level of PPKM.

Adenovirus infection and post-COVID-19 infection are among a number of working hypotheses the government is investigating regarding the mysterious cause of the outbreak that has infected children across the globe.

Married couples of mixed Indonesian and non-Indonesian citizenship have welcomed a planned regulatory revision that could buy their children some time to consider which nationality to retain to comply with the country’s prohibition of indefinite dual citizenship.

Educators and health experts say that in-classroom learning should continue despite recent discoveries of a poorly understood form of child hepatitis, but they have urged parents and the government to keep close watch over health and hygiene protocols.

Health experts have urged the government to take a more comprehensive approach to the outbreak of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children, as more potential cases are reported across the country.

Indonesia’s student movement is struggling to retain its role as an agent of change, as previously united fronts fragment and alliances with the governing elite are nurtured, not avoided.

A new set of Press Council members – headed by prominent Muslim scholar Azyumardi Azra – took up their positions on Wednesday for three-year terms with a focus on improving the welfare of the country’s media workers.

Journalists are caught in a maelstrom of proliferating false information on social media and threats to their own safety and their work, showing that freedom of the press remains precarious, especially in the region of Papua, observers say.

Health experts are calling for the government to proceed with caution in easing the COVID-19 curbs while redoubling testing and tracing efforts to avoid a resurgence in cases.

Singapore has barred the entry of Indonesian Muslim preacher Abdul Somad Batubara, citing the preacher’s “extremist and segregationist teachings.”

National Police's elite Densus 88 counter-terrorism taskforce arrested two dozen suspects during raids on Saturday and subsequent interviews revealed some had performed bayat, or a pledge of allegiance, to Islamic State's new leader, Abu al-Hassan al-hashemi al-Quraishi, police said.

Masks are no longer required outdoors as "the pandemic is getting more and more controlled", President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said in a statement streamed online.

Health experts are urging parents to take their children to a hospital or Puskesmas whenever they notice fever, nausea or loss of appetite for early detection and treatment.

ASEAN countries have agreed on the establishment of a regional body to detect diseases that have the potential to become the next pandemic, as well as to synchronize regional health protocols to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in the region.