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Indonesia President Joko Widodo warned Monday against any rushed rollout of coronavirus vaccines, cautioning whether they were halal and therefore considered permissible for Muslims to use.

An Indonesian health worker was smeared with fecal matter as he tried to retrieve a coronavirus patient from his home this week for medical treatment in East Java on Tuesday, Coconuts Jakarta reported.

Officials in Indonesia are forcing those who fail to abide by legal requirements to wear a mask to fight Chinese coronavirus to dig the graves of coronavirus victims, news reports revealed on Thursday.

Indonesia’s foreign ministry lodged a formal protest with Beijing on Monday after a Chinese coastguard ship intruded into the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea for two straight days.

Officials in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, will place it on lockdown next week due to a recent spike in the city’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases.

Police in Indonesia recently imposed one of their most bizarre Chinese coronavirus-related punishments to date, entering a wedding ceremony where they forced the groom to perform push-ups after he was caught failing to wear a mask.

Police arrested a man in Indonesian on Tuesday for threatening to blow up a McDonald’s restaurant because “he thought Italians were responsible for the abominations that are the American fast-food franchise” and the Chinese coronavirus, Indonesian news outlets Coconuts Jakarta reported on Thursday.

Indonesia recorded its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases on Thursday, with nearly half of the 2,657 new infections reported at a military training center on the island of Java, Reuters reported.

The Agriculture Ministry of Indonesia announced this weekend the creation of an “antivirus necklace” made of eucalyptus that could allegedly kill the Chinese coronavirus, later walking back its properties, but not before the nation’s health minister claimed it could boost the wearer’s “psychological mentality.”

Bali’s provincial government organized a mass prayer ceremony attended by over 1,000 people “seeking blessings” as Indonesia’s top tourist destination prepares to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, local news outlet Coconuts Bali reported on Monday.

Indonesian students are preparing to protest the arrival of Chinese workers to the eastern island of Sulawesi next week, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.

A man in Indonesia who requested a test kit for the Chinese coronavirus ended up receiving a positive pregnancy test result on Saturday, according to local media.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has chosen Jakarta’s first Christian governor of Chinese descent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, as a top candidate to oversee the construction of a new capital city in the majority-Muslim country, the Nikkei reported on Friday.

Jihadists in Indonesia are calling for violent attacks on Chinese-run businesses amid surging anti-Chinese sentiment in the Muslim-majority nation.

The Ministry of the Interior of Saudi Arabia on Friday announced a 24-hour coronavirus lockdown and nationwide curfew for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which is scheduled for May 23 to 27 in the kingdom.

Indonesian police arrested three people on Thursday for using fake “coronavirus-free” documents to island-hop from Java to Bali. 

One of Indonesia’s largest labor groups says it will defy a police ban on staging May Day rallies in the capital enacted to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Indonesian news site Kumparan reported on Wednesday.

Authorities in Indonesia’s Islamist Aceh province ignored a government ban on mass gatherings on Tuesday to carry out floggings of six people found guilty of violating Sharia, the Islamic law, AFP reported Wednesday.

Indonesia on Tuesday announced the banning of Idul Fitri, the annual exodus at the end of Ramadan where people return home to their villages and see their families, over fears it could worsen the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

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Indonesian officials in Central Java province have gotten creative with their punishments for quarantine violators, forcing them to stay in a haunted house, Coconuts Jakarta reported Monday.

Residents in some Indonesian villages are dressing up as ghosts to scare people into following social distancing measures during the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

A group of prisoners granted early release in the Indonesian province of Gorontalo last week celebrated their freedom by making a TikTok video dancing to music from Spongebob Squarepants, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Tuesday.

The governor of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, said on Tuesday that nearly 300 suspected and confirmed victims of the Chinese coronavirus had been buried since the start of March.

Indonesian government authorities successfully halted a planned gathering of almost 9,000 Muslim pilgrims late Wednesday, amid fears it would spread Chinese coronavirus.

Tens of thousands of Muslim faithful sparked an outcry in Bangladesh on Wednesday as they defied authorities to hold a mass prayer gathering just as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic.

The owner of a grocery store in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta was widely praised across social media after refusing to panic about the coronavirus outbreak, which was officially confirmed as active in Indonesia on Monday.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced on Monday that two of his citizens have tested positive for Chinese coronavirus, making them the first official cases of the virus on his country’s soil.

Australian maritime authorities intercepted an illegal asylum seeker boat last month and forced it to immediately return to its port of departure in Indonesia.

A senior Indonesian Health Ministry official baffled journalists by insisting that a man who tested positive for “SARS-CoV-2” did not have “COVID-19,” the Jakarta Post reported on Tuesday. The former is the virus that causes the latter.

Lawmakers in Indonesia are considering legislation that would require state “rehabilitation” for individuals seeking “sexual satisfaction through unusual and unreasonable ways, which include sadism, masochism, incest, and homosexuality,” the Jakarta Post revealed this week.

An Indonesian Muslim group named Indonesia Tanpa Pacaran (“Indonesia without dating”) has declared February 14 “Indonesia Without Dating Day,” organizing rallies, talks, popular events to stamp out both the holiday and the practice of dating before marriage.

Pope Francis is looking to travel to Indonesia later this year, the nation with the highest Muslim population in the world, Reuters reported Monday.

Asian countries including Indonesia and the Philippines remain fearful of suspending visa-free entry for Chinese citizens amid the outbreak of the contagious coronavirus because they do not want to endanger their close economic and political relationship with Beijing. 

Islamic authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province have unveiled a new all-women flogging squad tasked with punishing fellow women found in violation of Sharia Law, AFP reported Tuesday.

(AFP) — Indonesia’s human rights body on Tuesday slammed a crackdown on the LGBT community in a city that was once home to a man described as Britain’s most prolific rapist.