Indonesia

The outbreak of coronavirus in Indonesia is increasingly widespread. Various efforts to anticipate by the government have been carried out. One of them, the Indonesian government encourages universities in areas affected by COVID-19 to temporarily stop face-to-face academic activities and conduct online lectures to prevent transmission of diseases caused by the new virus. This was said by Minister of Education …

The outbreak of Covid-19 disease or coronavirus that is happening in various regions in Indonesia is unlikely to affect the implementation of simultaneous local elections held this year. The reason is, the KPU emphasized that the delay option was never included in the discussion. This was conveyed by the Commissioner of the General Elections Commission (KPU), Pramono Ubaid Tanthowi. According …

Panic buying becomes one of response from public amid the full-alert status of COVID-19 pandemic. In order to avoid that, Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan on Sunday said the provincial government has decided to limit food sales in retail stores. Anies said there were limits on food sales to control panic buying by the association of retailers. “The association of …

As many 21 more people have been tested with positive results for Covid-19 disease on Sunday. Therefore, Indonesia government has confirmed this adding the total number of people infected by the novel coronavirus to 117. The spread of the virus to this number happened in just two weeks since the country’s first confirmed the first case in its territory. “Today …

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has issued Presidential Decree (Keppres) No. 7 of 2020 on Friday (3/13/2020) which calls on each regional government area to form a Task Force for the acceleration of handling Covid-19 (coronavirus). Quoting the Presidential Decree Article 11 paragraph (1), “Governors and Regents / Mayors form the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Regional Management …

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said that at present the state’s finances are facing an abnormal situation. The corona virus outbreak and the world oil price war became a global factor that triggered a decline in the domestic economy. That was also the Ministry of Finance required to work extra. For this reason, she asked all officials and employees of the …

The Democratic Party is carrying out Congress V which will be held at the Jakarta Covention Center (JCC) Senayan, Jakarta, Sunday, March 15, 2020. In the congress, the Democrats will assert their political stance to be opposition or outside government and succession to the Democratic Party leadership. This was said by Secretary General (Secretary General) of the Democratic Party Hinca …

As an effort to pay clients’ claims that is currently being a problem of State-owned insurer PT Asuransi Jiwasraya, then the State-Owned Enterprises (SEO) Ministry plans to sell this company assets including a shopping mall and a collection of mutual funds. The plan to sell the assets, according to the ministry’s spokesperson Arya Sinulingga, it would start once the Jiwasraya …

Coronavirus or COvid-19 has become frightening outbreak to the countries in the world, including Indonesia. The Indonesian government announced on Friday, March 13, that four Covid-19 patients have died. Currently the number of confirmed cases in the country jumped to 69, an increase of 35 cases over the last two days. The fatalities include three women and a man aged …

The Indonesian Minister of Health (Menkes), Terawan Agus Putranto delivered happy news about his proven theory, that the coronavirus is a disease that will heal by itself. “And I feel very happy. That the theory is true that this is indeed a self limiting disease that will heal itself. Disease that will heal itself,” he said, Thursday (03/12/2020). Terawan’s statement …