The COVID-19 vaccination program must be implemented in parallel with health protocols, Head of the COVID-19 National Task Force Doni Monardo has said. “President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo always reminds the Ministers and Head of Task Force that the vaccines should not make all of us neglect health protocols,” Doni said after witnessing the arrival of […]

Approximately 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine bulk supply from Sinovac has arrived in Indonesia, on Tuesday (12/1). Today’s arrival is the third batch after 1.2 million doses and 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in 6 December and 31 December 2020, respectively. The vaccine bulk then will be manufactured by state-owned pharmaceutical holding […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered to intensify search for victims and black box of the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 aircraft crashed in the Thousand Islands waters. “The President ordered me to quickly coordinate the search operation for the victims’ bodies and black box. God willing, we will carry out the order and this afternoon, […]

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin has once again urged the public to follow health protocols to support health workers and to prevent COVID-19 transmission “The Government is taking measures to overcome the downstream impact (of the pandemic). We have to slowly shift the measures to overcome the upstream causes,” the Minister said in a […]

Minister of Religious Affairs Yaqut Cholil Qoumas has called on the public to participate in the vaccination program as part of practicing religious teachings, namely to protect each other. “All religions, without exception, teach us to protect each other and vaccination is part of an effort to carry out these religious teachings,” he said when […]

The Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has officially issued the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) for CoronaVac, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech. “The results of clinical trials show that CoronaVac is safe with mild to moderate side effects, including local side effects such as pain, induration, redness, and swelling as well as […]

In a bid to slow down the increase in COVID-19 cases, the Indonesian Government has decided to implement restrictions on community activities (PPKM) on 11-25 January 2021. “We monitor that on the cumulative cases of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia has 828,026 cases with a recovery rate of 82.3 percent and a case fatality rate of […]

Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung has ordered stricter restrictions of work-from-office policy in the Cabinet Secretariat office premises. According to Pramono, the Government will implement restrictions on community activities (PKM) on 11-25 January in Java and Bali Provinces. “The number of people working in the office will be cut down in the next two weeks starting […]

Indonesia, on Tuesday (12/1), will receive a total of 15 million doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine raw materials for state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma to process further, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said. “As many as 15 million vaccine raw materials from Sinovac will arrive, insyaAllah, tomorrow. Bio Farma is expected to […]

Agricultural sector must be developed on a larger scale, for example by developing food estates through optimal use of agricultural technology to reduce production costs and increase competitiveness, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. “Therefore, I urge all sides to complete the development of food estates immediately. The projects in North Sumatra and Central Kalimantan […]