The Indonesian Government has announced it is set to reduce the country’s stunting rate to 14% in 2024 or below 680,000 cases per year. Based on a survey done by the Indonesian Toddler Nutrition Status (SSGBI) in 2019, there is currently a drop in the prevalence of stunting from 30.8% in 2018 to 27.67% in […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has urged Minister of Youth and Sports, the National Sports Council (KONI), and the Indonesian Olympic Committee (KOI) to improve national sports achievements by utilizing the latest science and technology. “If our sports achievements are still not good enough, it probably means that we have not used the right method. We […]

Sports can serve as a booster to drive the economy through the development of national sports tourism, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo stated. “The sports industry has a very broad scope, starting from the event industry, the clothing industry, shoe industry, football industry, and others,” the President said when virtually attending the National Sports Day XXXVII […]

Sports play an important role in education and improved productivity, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said. According to the President, sports also play a very important role in human life, be it as an individual as well as in a society and a nation. As for education, sports are not only for physical education and physical […]

Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reforms has issued Circular Number 67 of 2020 on Amendment to the Circular Number 58 of 2020 on Work System for State Civil Apparatus in the New Normal Order. The Circular, dated 4 September, regulates the percentage of State Civil Apparatus attendance based on the risk zone area. […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has established a team to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development through Presidential Decree (Keppres) Number 18 of 2020, which was signed by the President on Thursday (3/9). Link: https://jdih.setkab.go.id/PUUdoc/176226/Keppres_Nomor_18_Tahun_2020.pdf. Previously, the President had formed two teams, namely the COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery Task Forces under the Committee for COVID-19 Handling and […]

The Eijkman Institute has started to develop the ‘red and white vaccine’—name of the locally-produced vaccine — with a recombinant protein platform, according to Minister of Research and Technology Bambang Brodjonegoro. The progress of the process has already reached 50%, he added. “Our target is that by the end of this year, the institute can […]

Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has reprimanded 53 incumbent regional heads for involving masses during registration for 2020 Regional Head Elections. During a press conference after a virtual Limited Meeting on Tuesday (8/9), the Minister stated that dissemination on health protocols during elections stages which was conducted just before the registration might be the […]

Imposition of administrative sanctions in the upcoming regional head elections will become the authority of the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and the General Elections Commission (KPU), Bawaslu Head Abhan said. According to Abhan, the sanctions may be in the forms of a warning or suggestion for improvement or to stop an ongoing process. “Sanctions which […]

Indonesia’s COVID-19 active cases still below the global average with 48,847 cases (24.4%), while the global average is at 25.47%, according to Spokesperson of COVID-19 Task Force Wiku Adisasmito. As of 6 September 2020, there were 310 out of 514 district/cities that have cases below 50 or 60.31%. “The number should be pushed even lower,” […]