As home to the world’s largest mangrove forests—3.36 million hectares— Indonesia must understand the importance of protecting, caring for and rehabilitating mangrove forests, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. “Approximately 20 percent of the total mangrove forests in the world is in our country. For that reason, we have a big potential of mangrove forests. […]
During his working visit to Batam, Riau Islands on Tuesday (28/9), President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo joined residents to plant mangrove trees at Setokok Beach. At that time, the water level was quite high so that the planting location was submerged in water. However, it did not dampen the President’s spirit to plant the mangroves. Indonesia has […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Tuesday (28/09) headed to Riau province for a work visit. With a limited entourage, the President took off from Halim Perdanakusuma Military Airbase in Jakarta onboard Indonesian Presidential Aircraft-1 around 07.30 western Indonesian time. Shortly after the President arrives at Roesmin Nurjadin Military Airbase in Pekanbaru city, he will continue his […]
Starting from October, features in PeduliLindungi application will be accessible for other applications. Chief of Digital Transformation Office of Ministry of Health Setiaji said that at this moment, Ministry of Health has coordinated with some digital platforms, such as Gojek, Grab, Tokopedia, Traveloka, Tiket, Dana, Cinema XXI, Link Aja, and Jaki that belongs to the […]
Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Nadiem Anwar Makarim, Monday (27/09), clarified several misunderstandings about the issue of limited in-person learning cluster that has been circulating among the people. First, there is a misconception about limited in-person learning cluster reaching 2.8 percent of education units in the past month. “[2.8 percent] is the cumulative […]
In a bid to prevent COVID-19 clusters of limited in-person learning (PTM) in schools, the Government will focus on two upstream COVID-19 control strategies, namely the behavioral changes and the advanced surveillance strategy. “We want to carry out a special surveillance strategy for teaching and learning activities. If this proves successful, we will replicate it […]
The pandemic situation outside the islands of Java and Bali has shown improvements. As of September 26, there has been no province with level 4 COVID-19 assessment. “The provinces of Bangka Belitung, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, Aceh, and Papua belong to level 3, 21 provinces belong to level 2 and Lampung belongs to level 1,” […]
The Government continues to intensify 3T (testing, tracing, and treatment) efforts as part of its long-term strategy in dealing with COVID-19 even though the pandemic situation in the country is getting better. “Now the average test is 170,000 people per day. The number is already quite good, however our target is actually more than that,” […]
The Government has announced it will stay vigilant and will not relax measures to control COVID-19 pandemic despite several improvements in the pandemic indicators. “The indicators should give us no room for complacency. In fact, we must be more careful,” Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said, Monday (09/27). According to […]
The Government has announced that wage subsidy assistance for workers or laborers channeled through the State-Owned Banks Association (Himbara) is not subject to any deductions, including administrative fees, according to Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah. “Each beneficiary can withdraw the wage subsidy assistance worth Rp1 million,” Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah said on Monday (27/9), […]
