Indonesia imposed a partial lockdown Saturday in the capital Jakarta, across the main island of Java and on Bali as the Southeast Asian nation grapples with an unprecedented wave of coronavirus infections.Mosques, restaurants and shopping malls were shuttered in virus hotspots around the Muslim-majority country, which recorded more than 25,000 new cases and 539 deaths on Friday, both new daily records.Indonesia's daily caseload has more than quadrupled in less than a month.

Indonesia is tripling its oxygen supplies to hospitals as data suggests the Delta variant of coronavirus is now driving the country’s worsening outbreak, accounting for more than 60 percent of recent cases.Indonesia’s health minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said that three-quarters of the national oxygen production used for industry would be redeployed to hospitals for the next two weeks.“We learned from India to make sure the supply is there,” he said.Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populou

Indonesia has announced a lockdown on its main island Java, as well as the tourism destination of Bali.The announcement by President Joko Widodo comes as the country battles multiple outbreaks and an alarming spike in COVID cases.Indonesia recently recorded two million COVID cases, attributed to increased holiday travel and the Delta variant.The lockdown will last two weeks and aims to reduce the number of cases to below 10,000 a day.The country is currently recording more than 20,000 new cas

Indonesia said Friday it will salvage a submarine that sank off the coast of Bali, as grieving relatives paid their respects to the dozens of crew killed in the disaster.Authorities had yet to confirm if they would try to haul up the KRI Nanggala 402 from the sea floor after it was spotted cracked in three pieces.The navy on Friday said it was waiting on the arrival of two ships, including a vessel sent by China, that are equipped to handle deep-sea salvage operations.High-powered magnets and

All 53 crew aboard an Indonesian submarine that disappeared last week were killed, the military said Sunday as it confirmed the vessel had been found in pieces on the seafloor.Authorities said that they picked up signals early Sunday from a location more than 800 metres (2,600 feet) deep – far below what the KRI Nanggala 402's steel hull was built to withstand.They had used an underwater submarine rescue vehicle supplied by neighbouring Singapore to get visual confirmation of the stricke

Debris has been recovered from a missing Indonesian submarine, the country's navy said Saturday, suggesting that the stricken vessel could have broken apart after sinking with 53 crew aboard. The development dashed already slim hopes of rescuing the sailors alive after their oxygen reserves were understood to have run out earlier in the day.Warships, planes and hundreds of military personnel have been searching for the KRI Nanggala 402 since it disappeared off the coast of Bali

Indonesia's desperate search for a missing submarine and its 53 crew was focused on a signal from an unidentified object Friday, with just hours to go before the stricken vessel's oxygen reserves ran out.Nearly two dozen warships were taking part in the ramped-up hunt, as Australia and the United States (US) joined the search off the coast of Bali where the sub disappeared more than two days ago during training exercises.The military said it had picked up signs of an object with hig

Indonesian warships led the hunt Thursday for a submarine that went missing with 53 crew aboard and only enough oxygen for a few days.An oil spill where the submarine was thought to have submerged early Wednesday pointed to possible fuel-tank damage, and fanned fears of a deadly disaster.The crew on the KRI Nanggala 402 could have enough oxygen until early Saturday, but time was quickly running out as rescuers scoured the coast off holiday island Bali where it disappeared."There's t

Indonesian navy ships on Thursday scoured a patch of ocean off the coast of Bali searching for a submarine with 53 crew aboard after losing contact with the vessel during military exercises.The German-built KRI Nanggala 402 was scheduled to do live torpedo exercises when it asked for permission to dive early Wednesday morning, authorities said. "After permission was given according to the procedure, the submarine lost contact and could not be reached," the defence ministry

Indonesian doctor Susana Somali and her staff cut tightly-bound plastic ropes off dozens of whimpering dogs rescued from the butcher's block after being sold or abandoned during the coronavirus pandemic.Somali's sprawling Jakarta complex, home to about 1,400 canines, has become a refuge for at-risk animals as cash-strapped owners sell them into the Southeast Asian nation's controversial dog meat trade.Mostly acting on tip-offs, Somali and her team hit the streets looking for st