The number of COVID-19 active cases in Indonesia, as of 17 September 2020, was 56,720 cases, Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, has reported. Wiku also said that 292 regencies/municipalities (56.8% of 514 cities/regencies in Indonesia) reported 1-50 active cases. “We must also be aware that there are 11 regencies/municipalities with more […]
The Indonesian Government has announced it is currently focusing on flattening the COVID-19 infection curve in nine provinces with the highest transmission rates. Those nine provinces are capital Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatra, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, Papua, and Bali. Spokesperson for COVID-19 Task Force Wiku Adisasmito revealed that the decision […]
Public awareness and discipline in implementing health protocols is the key to reducing the spread of COVID-19, Presidential Spokesperson for Legal Affairs Dini Purwono said. According to Dini, Presidential Instruction Number 6 of 2020 on Improved Discipline and Law Enforcement of Health Protocols in the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 issued on 4 August 2020 […]
In a bid to achieve sustainable development goals, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati stated the importance of strengthening domestic resource mobilization (DRM) and international tax cooperation. “For the ADB (Asian Development Bank) member countries, the mobilization of domestic resources is very critical. As you can see, the need to develop, and how (member countries) […]
Indonesia’s trade balance in August 2020 experienced a surplus of US$2.3 billion, which is the third-highest achievement throughout 2020 after the trade surplus in July (US$ 3.2 billion) and February (US$ 2.5 billion), Minister of Trade Agus Suparmanto has said. “The August 2020 trade balance was a surplus of US$2.3 billion. The weakening global demand […]
The Government has announced it will continue to meet sustainable national development goals through the Village Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program. “Village SDGs are a derivative of Presidential Regulation Number 59 of 2017 on measures to achieve the national sustainable development goals,” said Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Abdul Halim Iskandar […]
Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing expands the coverage of services of cash for work labor-intensive program to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by conducting regular preservation of asphalt roads. The program uses rubber as the material for asphalt mix. For that reason, the Ministry has allocated Rp100 billion of budget to purchase 10,000 […]
The Government has started the third batch of wage subsidy disbursement to 3.5 million workers, Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah has said. The beneficiaries of previous disbursement were 2.5 million workers (1st batch) and 3 million workers (2nd batch). As of today, the total beneficiaries of the wage subsidy are 9 million workers or 57 […]
The National Economic Recovery (PEN) Working Committee continues to accelerate the distribution of the National Economic Recovery program, one of which is in the form of salary subsidy for non-tenured teachers, educators, and non-tenured staff at education offices in regions. According to Chairman of the Working Committee Budi Gunadi Sadikin, until 14 September 2020, salary […]
The micro-scale social restrictions, locally known as PSBM, aims to control identified clusters, spokesperson for the COVID-19 Mitigation Working Committee Wiku Adisasmito said. “Through PSBMs, we can directly control a cluster or group of cases identified in areas smaller than a regency/city, for example a district, sub-district, or neighboring unit (RT)/community unit (RW),” he said, […]
