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 set a new record for daily coronavirus cases on Sunday with more than 21,000, as hospitals are flooded with patients in Jakarta and other COVID-19 hotspots across Southeast Asia's hardest-hit nation.The figure brings the country's tally for the pandemic to more than 2.1 million coronavirus cases with 57,138 deaths.But the real number is believed to be much higher due to low testing rates for the deadly respiratory illness.Indonesia's COVID-19 case rates have soared in

Thousands of worshippers trudged up an active Indonesian volcano Saturday to cast livestock and other offerings down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony.Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from the surrounding highlands to throw fruit, vegetables, flowers and even livestock such as goats and chickens into Mount Bromo's crater as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival.A long line of worshippers, some with goats slung across their backs, made their way to t

Over a dozen fully vaccinated doctors have died of COVID-19 in Indonesia, a medical association said Friday, as the Southeast Asian country battles a rash of severe cases in inoculated medical workers and highly infectious new virus strains.Infections have surged in the nation of 270 million people in the past week, passing two million cases on Monday as hospital occupancy rates soared to over 75 percent in Jakarta and other hard-hit areas.Nearly 1,000 Indonesian health workers have died from

Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon at supporters of a hard-line Muslim cleric jailed Thursday for spreading false information about COVID-19 after he held rallies that drew thousands.Rizieq Shihab, 55, was handed a four-year jail term for claiming in a viral video that he was healthy, despite knowing that test results showed he may have been infected with the virus.Thousands rallied outside the courthouse in Jakarta in support of the cleric, whose influential Islamic Defenders

It should have been a time of celebration for Puji Apriani’s family – she was pregnant with her second child, and just weeks away from giving birth.But instead of welcoming a new life, her family is now in mourning. “I miss her. She was healthy, her pregnancy was normal.

Generous Indonesians donating their spare change to the poor and needy are unwittingly helping finance deadly terror attacks and jihadist training camps, in a scam that has netted big money for extremist groups.Former radical Khairul Ghazali once spent his days visiting restaurants, convenience stores and supermarkets to drop off charity boxes, wearing an official-looking uniform to avoid suspicion.Passers-by would slot in coins and crumpled banknotes in the belief that they were helping the

Indonesia passed two million coronavirus cases Monday as infection rates soar and hospitals are flooded with new patients, prompting warnings that the Southeast Asian nation's health crisis could spiral out of control.The unwanted milestone comes after daily case rates more than doubled in recent weeks and authorities identified the presence of highly infectious COVID-19 variants.On Monday, official figures showed that Indonesia had recorded a daily record high of 14,536 cases, taking th

Since its inception for commercial purpose in early 1900s, palm oil has been promoted as a major agro-based industry in Southeast Asian economies like Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.