Indonesia

Following its new strategic alliance with ride-hailing and digital payment services company Gojek, Bank Jago is poised to become Indonesia’s first entirely digital bank. The small Indonesian bank applauds OJK which is the country’s Financial Services Regulator imminent digital banking legislation sharing that it will encourage its customers to open a bank account on an app run by Gojek’s affiliate. …

In one of the worst coronavirus-hit areas in Indonesia there are grassroots campaign that aims to help alleviate a health crisis in the nation where hospitals are struggling to cope as patient numbers increase. Last month, in Yogyakarta, a province in Java, Sonjo, a WhatsApp community organization tapped its personal network to help the district government transform a disused hospital …

The Indonesian Ministry of Health has stressed that the recently guided spatial clustering of COVID-19 vaccination by President Joko Widodo will take place by prioritizing people in high-risk areas. In view of this, Tarmizi stressed that the spatial clustering exercise would not include all areas in a province, as health workers would focus only on those at the highest risk …

President Joko Widodo urged regional governments to introduce collective activity restrictions by implementing a micro-based approach to sub-districts, towns, community units and neighborhood units. To this end, the Head of State pointed out that the government had worked in greater depth by enforcing a micro-scale lockdown. In view of this, Jokowi was of the opinion that such a measure did …

It is unexpected that the Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi paid a visit to Jordan to discuss efforts to improve bilateral cooperation between the two nations, especially in the economic sphere. During the visit, the foreign minister was joined by the managers of the Indonesian state-owned fertilizer industry firms. Phosphate is one of the main elements of Indonesia and Jordan’s …

It’s only the second month of the year and there’s something urgent to deal with as Environmentalists have cautioned that Indonesia’s aggressive biodiesel scheme would raise the likelihood of deforestation as more tropical forests will be cleared to cultivate palm oil, encouraging lawmakers to enforce a long-term ban on new plantations. Indonesia which is the home to the third largest …

Through the application of tissue culture methods to improve these techniques, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will establish multiple seaweed cultivation centers across regions in eastern Indonesia. The seaweed production centers will also be established at sites such as Maluku, Papua, and NTT to make full use of tissue-grown seaweed seeds. Through this, Soebjakto clarified that by taking …

Indonesia would no longer allow mining waste to be disposed of in the ocean to alleviate concerns about the environmental impact of the production of nickel used in electric vehicle batteries. In view of this, The South-east Asian country, the world’s largest producer of nickel, has not officially banned so-called deep sea tailings (DST), but it could delay planned projects …

President Joko Widodo emphasized the micro or local-level enforcement of public activity prohibitions. The president issued instructions at the small cabinet meeting just now, so that COVID-19 is managed more efficiently by maximizing the performance of PPKM. The President urged that a micro-based or local solution be implemented. The goal of the micro strategy is to implement PPKM, beginning at …

Progress has set its thing in Pasuruan city, East Java, as part of efforts to avoid coastal abrasion and a labor-intensive initiative, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries has established a mangrove nursery. To ensure the supply of mangrove seeds to satisfy the needs of mangrove nurseries and for planting and restoration activities, the mangrove nursery in Pasuruan was …