Indonesia's president pledged to improve COVID-19 testing and treatment in an address Monday marking the country's independence and said the pandemic had changed Indonesian culture in ways that would be a foundation for advancement.
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As many Asian countries battle their worst surge of COVID-19 infections, the slow-flow of vaccine doses from around the world is finally picking up speed, giving hope that low inoculation rates can increase and help blunt the effect of the rapidly (...)
Just two months ago, Indonesia was coming to a gasping India's aid with thousands tanks of oxygen.
Today, the Southeast Asia country is running out of oxygen as it endures a devastating wave of coronavirus cases and the government is seeking (...)
Indonesia is finalising emergency social restrictions aimed at containing a surge in coronavirus cases in the world's fourth most populous country, President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday.
"Today it will be finalised because the spike is very high," (...)
Pro-Palestinian protesters marched to the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Indonesia's capital on Tuesday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
Waving Indonesian and Palestinian flags and signs that read ``Free Palestine,'' (...)
Southeast Asian leaders began a crisis meeting on Myanmar on Saturday aiming to persuade Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the military takeover that sparked turmoil in his country, to forge a path to end the violence.
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Seven Southeast Asian leaders are expected to attend a summit with head of Myanmar's junta to discuss the crisis caused by the military coup, according to diplomats and officials in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital where Saturday's meeting will be (...)
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Indonesia on April 24, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday, for his first known foreign trip since he staged a Feb. 1 coup.
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Troops in Myanmar opened fire on pro-democracy protesters on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, the latest victims of a campaign to crush opposition to the ruling military junta, activists and media said.
Senior General Min (...)
Myanmar troops fired at anti-coup protesters on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and wounding several, media said, as a Chinese-owned factory was set on fire in the commercial capital Yangon and activists burned the Chinese flag.
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Myanmar's military-appointed foreign minister flew into Thailand on Wednesday, a Thai government source said, as Myanmar's neighbours intensified efforts to resolve a crisis that began when its army seized power in a Feb. 1 coup.
The minister, Wunna (...)
Indonesia is pushing Southeast Asian neighbours to agree on an action plan over Myanmar's coup that would keep the junta to its promise of holding elections, with monitors to ensure they are fair and inclusive, three sources familiar with the move (...)
Severe flooding across several areas in the Indonesian capital forced more than a thousand people to flee their homes on Saturday, with the country's meteorology agency warning the conditions were set to continue for the next week.
Some 1,380 (...)
Protesters opposed to Myanmar's military coup blocked train services between Yangon and a southern city on Tuesday, hours after a U.N. envoy warned the army of “severe consequences” for any harsh response to the pro-democracy demonstrations. (...)
Iran has asked Indonesia to provide details about the seizure of an Iranian-flagged vessel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday, a day after Jakarta said it had seized Iran and Panama-flagged tankers in its (...)
Indonesian divers on Tuesday retrieved from the sea bed the flight data recorder (FDR) of a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board at the weekend, officials said.
Divers had also found a separate radio beacon, (...)
Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved. The (...)
Egypt expressed its condolences to Indonesia over the victims of a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta.
In an official statement on Saturday, Egypt's foreign ministry stressed its solidarity and support (...)
A Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Indonesia's capital on Saturday on a domestic flight, officials said.
Indonesian Transportation Ministry spokesperson Adita Irawati said (...)
Global stock markets and US futures rose Monday after President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion economic aid package, helping to reduce uncertainty as governments re-impose travel and business curbs in response to a new coronavirus (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo renewed the Trump administration's rhetorical onslaught against China in Indonesia on Thursday as the American presidential election looms.
With China a central theme in President Donald Trump's campaign to win a (...)
Nationwide protests and labour strikes against a polarising new jobs law in Indonesia continued across the country for a third straight day on Thursday.
The “omnibus” jobs creation bill, passed into law on Monday, has seen thousands of people in (...)
أعلن عدد من الخبراء في إندونيسيا، عن اكتشاف سلالة جديدة للفيروس التاجي معدية جدا، سبق أن اكتشفت في شهر يناير 2020 في ألمانيا. وقالت صحيفة The Jakarta Post، في تقارير نشرها موقع روسيا اليوم، إن السلالة D614G، الأكثر انتشارا في الولايات المتحدة، لم (...)
As Brazil and India struggle with surging coronavirus cases, a top health expert is warning that the world is still in the very middle of the outbreak, dampening hopes for a speedy global economic rebound and renewed international travel.
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Muslims around the world on Sunday began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive holiday marking the end of the fastiedinang month of Ramadan, with millions under strict stay-at-home orders and many fearing renewed coronavirus outbreaks.
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