JAKARTA, April 5 — The Indonesian government has not imposed a ban on leaving home to address the Covid-19 pandemic, but has continued to emphasise on large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in all aspects of community activities to deal with the spread of the virus.

JAKARTA, April 3 — The total number of Covid-19 deaths in Indonesia have gone up to 181 people since the first fatality was recorded on March 11.

JAKARTA, April 2 — Indonesia’s coronavirus death toll rose to 170 on Thursday as the world’s fourth most populous nation passed South Korea as the country with the highest number of recorded fatalities in Asia after China.

JAKARTA, March 31 — Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has announced that Indonesia is now under a public health emergency to combat the Covid-19 pandemic which has claimed 136 lives in the country.

JAKARTA, March 17 — President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said yesterday that Indonesia had no plans as yet to introduce lockdown measures in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

JAKARTA, March 3 — Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted on Tuesday morning, sending a 6-km (3.7 mile) column of ash into the air and triggering the closure of the airport in the nearby city of Solo on the densely populated Java island, authorities said.

SINGAPORE, March 3 — Singapore has reported two new positive cases of Covid-19 bringing the total number of cases to 108, according to Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday.