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 […]

Indonesia on Tuesday (27/7) has received another batch of 21.2 million doses of raw materials for Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine via Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten Province. According to Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, the arrival of bulk vaccines is the Government’s efforts to speed up the national vaccination drive. “This afternoon, we witnessed […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday (27/7) virtually launched core values and employer branding of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) from Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java Province. The launch of the core values, that is, ​​”BerAKHLAK“aims to homogenize the core values of State Civil Apparatus in every government institution at the central and regional levels. […]

  Following the extension of Public Activity Restrictions (PPKM) Level 1-4 until 2 August 2021, COVID-19 Handling Task Force has issued a Circular Number 16 of 2021 on Requirements for Domestic Travel during COVID-19 Pandemic. “This Circular shall take effect as of 26 July 2021 until indefinite time which will later be determined based on […]

The Government has announced it continues to speed up risk-based vaccine rollout. “We are prioritizing risk-based vaccine rollout and we will provide more vaccine for provinces with high number of active cases, including Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, and Bali,” Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in a press conference, […]