At least 15 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Indonesia after they ignored the health authority’s advice and opened the coffin of a loved one to carry out a cleansing ritual. The incident took place in the village of Jati in the regency of Sidoarjo in the Indonesian province…
A young Indonesian doctor has died of COVID-19 ahead of his wedding day. One week before his tragic death, Michael Robert Marampe revealed on Instagram that he is “one of the COVID-19 victims” in Indonesia. He reportedly received treatment in the ICU of the RSUP Persahabatan hospital in East Jakarta…
A top Indonesian official who claimed that women can become pregnant by swimming in the same pool as men who are turned on by the sight of their bodies has been told to resign - or she will be fired. Indonesian Child Protection Commission commissioner, Sitti Hikmawatty, made the comments…
Picture Credit: AsiaWire Bungling bureaucrats in Indonesia have apologised for appointing two Muslims one after the other as the representatives of the Catholic community in the country. Ministry secretary-general Nur Kholis Setiawan said “I apologise for the oversight” while claiming he had been given ‘mistaken advice’ from civil servants. Local…
Cops have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing his teenage girlfriend to death after she refused to send him nude pictures. The arrest comes over a year after Andriana Yubelia Noven Cahya, 18, was stabbed to death as she was walking home from school in the city of Bogor…
