President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has inaugurated a new station of state-owned television provider TVRI in West Papua and used the occation to promote national unity.

The AJI insisted that the crisis should not be used as an excuse for media companies to lay off their employees at will or to neglect their employees’ rights.

The East Nusa Tenggara administration has denied using the fictional dinosaur island "Jurassic Park" as inspiration behind the construction of a tourism project on the province's Rinca Island, home to the protected Komodo dragon.

The Destructive Fishing Watch (DFW) has called on the Indonesian government to increase patrols around the country's outermost islands in the North Natuna Sea of Riau, following reports of rampant illegal fishing by foreign fishers over the past few months.

The 2001 Anticorruption Law requires state officials to report any personal gifts to the KPK within 30 days after acceptance.

The new cluster has been linked to an event at a local restaurant, where one person who had the virus infected 10 other attendees.

Complying with international standards in procuring the vaccines is key to reassure the public that the vaccines are safe for use, she added.

The investigation of alleged sexual violence at education institutions can take more than a year and in many cases reaches no conclusion.

Task force spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito said his office had recorded 785 deaths linked to COVID-19 between Oct. 19 and 26, an increase from the 665 deaths recorded in the previous week.

Despite ambitious plans to turn Labuan Bajo into one of 10 premium tourist destination that the government is billing as the "New Balis", environmental activists and local tour guides have expressed concerns that it could threaten the Komodos’ natural habitat, and even put local visitors at an economic disadvantage.

The national COVID-19 task force has urged the public to spend the upcoming long weekend at home in order to help prevent a spike in coronavirus transmission amid concerns of a re-emergence of holiday clusters.

Private investors, both local and foreign, can now participate in the procurement of defense products.

The trees were blocking billboards owned by one of the suspects.

The province's pandemic task force will use both rapid and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

Ride-hailing app Gojek has added more lockers for personal helmets in several spots, including train stations, in Greater Jakarta to help its customers maintain health and hygiene protocols during the pandemic.

The presiding judge said he had given a lighter sentence partially because the defendants had sought to bring about world peace.

At that time, one of the officials used a megaphone to urge participants and visitors to comply with health regulations. 

“Of course, every [police action] is in line with the law since it is the police that implement the law,” National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Awi Setiyono said.

The leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), who fled to Mecca in 2017 to escape criminal charges in Indonesia, has uploaded a video message announcing his impending return to join the jobs law protests at home, but he didn't say when.

A female Javan leopard that was caught for days in a snare in Ciwidey Forest in West Java has died after being taken by authorities to the Bandung Zoological Garden (Bazoga) for treatment on Friday evening.

A Papuan resident whom authorities claimed was a member of a local armed criminal group was shot dead during a joint police-military operation in Jalae village in Intan Jaya regency, Papua, on Monday.

With little land in their backyards – or without any backyard at all – aspiring urban farmers should fret not, as they can grow various vegetables with limited space at home.

Jiwasraya failed to pay out Rp 16 trillion (US$1.1 billion) in matured policies due in February to its policyholders.

The current construction project on Rinca Island, East Nusa Tenggara, will not put the Komodo dragon population at risk, the Environment and Forestry Ministry has stated following concerns over the safety of the endangered species amid tourism projects on the island.

The government has identified the development of coastal reservoirs as a potential means of providing water for the public, as a growing population, coupled with threats posed by climate change, could strain the existing water supplies in densely populated areas.

The recent marriage of a 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has put a spotlight on the high prevalence of child marriages in the province.

“Because if not – if there’s even one problem – it will create public distrust in the vaccination effort,” he said.

KSPI president Said Iqbal stated that the rallies would take place starting from Nov 2.

“Ironically, the perpetrators of the violence against the press are the police – an institution that is supposed to be enforcing the law,” the Alliance of Independent Journalists wrote.

The West Java Health Agency has said the province will need at least 72 million doses to vaccinate 36 million residents aged between 18 and 59 in a future vaccination program.