Ministry of Home Affairs has affirmed that COVID-19 vaccination certificate is not required to receive citizenship administrative services. “Because to get the COVID-19 vaccination, the people must also have a single identity number,” said Director General of Population and Civil Registration of the Ministry Zudan Arif Fakrulloh, as quoted from the Ministry’s official website, Thursday […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo congratulated Indonesian weightlifter Rahmat Erwin Abdullah for winning the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Competing in the men’s 73 kilograms category at the Tokyo International Forum, Japan, Wednesday (28/7), Rahmat managed to record a total lift of 342 kilograms (152 kilograms in snatch lift, 190 kilograms in clean and […]

Indonesia is a country with the largest Muslim population that has potential to become the world’s largest halal producer. However, the potential has not yet been optimally utilized. Indonesia still has to import to meet the needs of domestic halal food. For the record, Indonesia spent US$ 173 billion or 12.6 percent of the world’s […]

The Government will set aside Rp 1.3 trillion for medical waste management facilities in all regions across the country following the continued increase in the number of COVID-19 medical wastes, according to Minister of the Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya. “President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided that the Government will allocate Rp 1.3 trillion budget […]

In a bid to revive national economy amid the pandemic, including to keep the businesses of MSMEs afloat and to curb unemployment, the Government has provided stimulus to cooperatives through the Cooperative and MSME Revolving Fund Management Agency. In the first period of 2020, the stimulus amounted to Rp1 trillion for 63 cooperatives, while in […]

In a bid to increase the capacity of medical waste treatment amid COVID-19 pandemic, the Government has announced it will develop technology for micro-scale and mobile medical waste treatment. This program aims to reduce the increasingly higher volume of medical waste. “There are several proven technologies developed to significantly increase the capacity of waste management, […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered for an intensive and systematic management of the medical waste. “The President ordered that we must intensify medical waste management and do it more systematically by paying attention to the smallest details. So, we will pay attention on how the system works, from houses to service centers, or parallel […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has encouraged higher education institutions to foster innovation amid COVID-19 pandemic. “We have to fight to free the Indonesian people from the threat of COVID-19. Nevertheless, there are still many innovations that have emerged because of this pandemic. We have to develop them more and more. We will continue the development […]

Following the rising demand for COVID-19 therapeutic drugs amid the surge in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin has called on pharmaceutical industry to increase production capacity. “The increase should be about 12 times bigger. We are aware of this and have communicated with the Indonesian Pharmaceutical Company Association (GP Farmasi) […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has urged higher education institutions to provide students with knowledge and skills that are relevant with the present times. Disruption in the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0) and COVID-19 pandemic, according to the President, has considerably changed the needs for knowledge and skills. Much knowledge and skills have become irrelevant to […]