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Indonesia builds hospitals, quarantine centers in handling COVID-19

Indonesia's government has expedited efforts to ready emergency hospitals and quarantine centers by constructing ...

33 charged with hoarding masks, hand sanitizers

Police have filed charges against 33 persons suspected of hoarding masks and hand sanitizers for selling them at higher ...

COVID-19: Citizens asked to scrap 'mudik' plans

The Indonesian Government has urged citizens to cancel plans for ‘mudik’, an annual exodus when people ...

COVID-19: 103 patients recover; case count mounts to 1,677

As many as 103 coronavirus patients have recovered in Indonesia as of Wednesday, while the total number of infections ...

Galang emergency hospital to be center of research: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo said the new emergency hospital on Galang Island will be kept in readiness for treating COVID-19 ...

Jokowi stresses on national cooperation to contain COVID-19

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reiterated the significance of close cooperation between central and regional ...

Ensure all drugstores, staple food shops remain opened: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) instructed government officials across Indonesia to ensure that drugstores as well as ...

COVID-19 crisis: Government offers online marriage registration

Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Ministry had offered an online registration service to Indonesians planning to get ...

Imported cases pose new challenge to tackling COVID-19 crisis: Jokowi

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) cautioned that several countries that were able to flatten the curve of their ...

Jokowi urges regional heads to tighten entry of Jabodetabek travelers

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has brought to the urgent attention of regional heads to further tighten the entry of ...

Indonesia records 1,285 cases, 114 death toll from COVID-19

The number of COVID-19 positive cases in Indonesia has continued to increase and reached 1,285 as of Sunday, with 64 ...

COVID-19 case count in Indonesia touches 1,155

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Indonesia rose by 109 to reach 1,155 as of Saturday, with 59 patients ...

Ministry ensures deported migrant workers from Malaysia healthy

The Social Affairs Ministry has made assurance of the 114 Indonesian migrant workers deported from Malaysia to Riau ...

TNI intensifies security at Wisma Atlet emergency hospital

The military increased security at the Wisma Atlet emergency hospital following a surge in the number of COVID-19 ...

Task force assures of protective gear supply for medical workers

The government has ordered protective equipment from local industries for medical workers on the frontlines of the ...