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Wearing face masks is compulsory for Indonesians in public: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has made it mandatory for all Indonesians to wear face masks in public to prevent them ...

Thohir formulates steps for SOEs to safeguard economy against COVID-19

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir remains committed to safeguarding the resilience of SOEs in facing ...

Govt compiles guidebook on passenger restriction during "mudik"

The government is compiling a guidebook that will become a standard operation procedure to implement physical ...

E Java governor turns official residence into COVID-19 command center

East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa has turned her official residence into a command center for the COVID-19 ...

50,000 COVID-19 test kits from Korea to arrive in Indonesia on Sunday

A Garuda Indonesia plane carrying some 50,000 COVID-19 test kits from South Korea is scheduled to land at ...

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Hindus chant mantras, burn incense at home amid pandemic

In the time of pandemic, a visit to a religious place could potentially be a matter of life-and-death as it would ...

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Churches adapt to COVID-19 with online Sunday service

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which broke out late December last year in China’s Wuhan, has spread to ...

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Confucians, Buddhists urged to remain home due to coronavirus

Today is supposed to be another significant day for Confucians when they would have performed religious prayer over ...

50,000 coronavirus test kits from LG to arrive on Sunday

South Korean chaebol LG Group has donated 50 thousand polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits to Indonesia in view of ...

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Waging war against an invisible enemy

Indonesia is currently battling an invisible, fast-moving enemy called the novel coronavirus, which has infected more ...

Govt warns of asymptomatic individuals being potential corona carriers

Government's spokesman for COVID-19 handling Achmad Yurianto has warned of the dangers posed by asymptomatic ...

Coronavirus outbreak has crippled Bali's tourism industry: official

The tourism industry in the Indonesian resort island of Bali has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, with ...

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Prayers at home to fight COVID-19 spread

Death toll from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Indonesia has reached 181, as 11 others died in the past 24 ...

Medan declared as red zone over COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia

The biggest city in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Medan, has been classified as a "red zone" area of the ...

Scientists discover anti-parasite drug Ivermectin kills SARS CoV-2

A collaborative study led by the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute along with the Peter Doherty Institute of ...