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 […]
The Government takes several measures to provide more beds for COVID-19 patients amid surge in COVID-19 cases after Christmas and New Year holidays, according to Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin. “Within one month we must increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients from 15,000 to 36,000. This is a problem we will face […]
Ministry of Agriculture has announced it will provide an additional allocation of subsidized fertilizers this year to become 9 million tons plus 1.5 million liters of liquid organic fertilizer, higher than that of last year at 8.9 million tons. “Hopefully, more farmers can receive subsidized fertilizer, which will be provided to farmers registered in the […]
Developing agricultural sector should be carried out more seriously and in detail as the sector plays an increasingly more important role amid the pandemic, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. “We have to take food management and agricultural development seriously,” the President said during the Opening of the 2021 National Working Meeting of Agricultural Development, […]
The Government has announced the COVID-19 vaccination will start on Wednesday (13/1) with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo becoming the first person to receive it. “We will start (the vaccination) on Wednesday and President Jokowi will receive the first dose,” Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in Jakarta, Monday (11/1). However, the Minister added, the […]
The Indonesian Government has announced it has extended the temporary border closure for foreign travelers to the country. “The President has agreed to extend the policy to ban foreign travelers from entering Indonesia. The existing ban that applies on 1-14 (January) will be extended 2 x 7 days. It means that the ban will be […]
