Indonesia

Indonesia has been received donations from companies and foundation during Covid-19 pandemic across the country. Diversified conglomerate Santini Group, through its subsidiary PT Santini Logmax Indonesia (SLI), donated 10,000 bottles of drinking water to the emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients in the Kemayoran athletes village, Central Jakarta. SLI is the distributor of mineral water brand aoi-nano cluster. The company also …

Regions across Java have set up checkpoints to monitor the flow of vehicles between cities and provinces, following the government’s ban on Idul Fitri homecoming or mudik, which started on Friday, April 24, 2020. There are a number of checkpoints that have been prepared by the Transportation Ministry. The areas surrounding Jakarta, including Tangerang in Banten, as well as Bekasi, …

In efforts to ramp up much-needed mass testing for the Coronavirus, the Indonesian government has to face a challenge due to a shortage of reagents which interfering to combat the Coronavirus. A number of laboratories in the country have temporarily stopped running polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests because the supply of reagents over the past two days. It is because …

Handling Covid-19 outbreak certainly need huge amount of financial, especially when it has spread to almost regions across the country. Although every country are currently struggling with the condition, they also contribute to help other countries that need support to combat the virus. Indonesia has received US$3 million in aid from the United States to help battle the COVID-19 outbreak. …

Since the Coronavirus outbreak began in earnest early last month, Indonesia has spent Rp 777.59 billion, or $50 million, on imported medical supplies. More imports are now being planned as the number of cases continues to grow. The outbreak-related imports are dominated by face masks, which have totaled 17.1 million units, the director-general of Customs and Excise, Heru Pambudi, said …

Following the central government imposes a ban against homecoming traveling, or called “mudik”, state-owned railway operator PT KAI overseeing the operation area 1 in Jakarta will stop all departures and arrivals in both of their long-distance and local trains. It will be starting on Friday, April 24, in an attempt to break the coronavirus chain. “The long-distance train services that …

After Regulation of the Minister of Health (PMK) No. 9 of 2020 concerning the Guidelines for Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) to expedite the handling of Covid-19 published, a number of regions welcomed it by proposing restrictions in their respective regions. Jakarta started it through DKI Jakarta Governor Regulation (Pergub) Number 33 Year 2020 concerning PSBB in Jakarta. After, the PSBB …

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered massive layoffs globally, hammering industries, particularly in the tourism sector, and forcing closures of schools, hotels, restaurants, amusement centers, and factories, and people to stay home. No exception, Indonesia has also been affected,  where the government has projected unemployment in Indonesia to rise by five million in the face of the economic pressure …

In effort to handle impact due to coronavirus, the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) announced that it is currently offering public mental health consultations. This program will be launched to help people overcome the uncertain developments amidst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It considers as crucial as physical health services, especially in the midst of daily activities confined in the house due …

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has finally decided and officially barred – after much criticism – all citizens from traveling to their hometowns or mudik during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in a bid to curb the COVID-19 outbreak which has recorded 6,760 positive cases in Indonesia “At today’s meeting, I decided that the ban will be applied on the ‘mudik’ (Eid …