Indonesia

There is a substantial decline in crime rates, violations, and disruption of community order as well as the security situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was confirmed by National Police spokesman Sr Commissioner Asep Adi Saputra at Graha BNPB, Jakarta, on Thursday, April 9. “The community order and security situation are, in general, conducive,” Saputra stated. Saputra expounded, number of …

Regional administrations will be allowed to apply large-scale social restrictions (PSBB). This is because the COVID-19 Task Force has evaluated the physical distancing policy to be ineffective due to its reliance on individual discipline. Therefore, The Indonesian Government sees the application of the PSBB by regional governments as a better alternative to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. “The …

The Riau provincial administration pay attention to medical workers who treats patients contracting the novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19. The Riau administration provided an allowance of Rp2 million per day for each of them. “They will be given an incentive of Rp2 million per day,” said the Secretary of Riau administration, Yan Prana Jaya, in a written statement in Pekanbaru …

The city’s underprivileged residents will receive staple foodstuffs or ‘sembako’ that distributed by the Jakarta administration. This step taken by the Jakarta administration to help them that are financially-affected by the regulations concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The distribution of staple foodstuffs will be completed before the city’s large-scale social restriction (PSBB) protocol is imposed on Friday. “The Jakarta administration …

As many 1,266 hotels has closed their operations due to being impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia. This report has been received and confirmed by Chief of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Hariyadi Sukamdani. Then the hotel employees itself were asked to take leave. “The latest report declared that 1,266 hotels have closed as of yesterday afternoon, …

Rapid tests have been being used to recognize people that get infected by the new coronavirus (Covid-19). However, currently the nation’s COVID-19 task force will administer more polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which are believed to be more accurate than rapid tests. “It turns out that not all rapid tests are effective,” the task force’s head, Doni Monardo, said during …

Tanah Abang Market management introduced this morning that the market which is one in all Southeast Asia’s busiest textile marketplace will remain closed following the extension of the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency period. Perumda Pasar Jaya president-director Arief Nasrudin says that the Tanah Abang reopening scheduled to take area on April 6 has temporarily been extended to April 19. The transient …

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Agus Wibowo introduced on Sunday that the “large-scale social restrictions” protocol, or PSBB, will be enacted in a quantity of Indonesian areas as of these days on Monday, April 6. However, the BNPB spokesman did not point out in element involving the regions that will be subjected to the strict physical distancing rule. …

By seeing the increase number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, Jakarta provincial government issues the policy to close temporary the places, where public gather around, that which makes it possible to transmit the virus. Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta extended the closing period of its public places in the race to contain the growing threat of COVID-19 whose cases in the city …

During the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian government advises a work from home policy to most of company in the country, including Pertamina. The state-owned oil and gas company has guaranteed that domestic supplies of fuel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) remain secure. The company said its stock of diesel and gasoline, including the highly demanded Pertalite gasoline brand, …