Day: June 24, 2021

Indonesia’s daily COVID-19 cases climb by 15,308

June 24, 2021

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia added 15,308 daily COVID-19 cases on Wednesday (June 23, 2021), taking the total tally to 2,033,421, according to the Task Force for COVID-19 Response. With an additional 7,167 patients recovering from the virus, the total recoveries reached 1,817,303. Meanwhile, the number of people dying of the

Vaccine stocks sufficient to achieve target of inoculating one million

June 24, 2021

Jakarta (ANTARA) – State-owned pharmaceutical firm PT Bio Farma is upbeat about fulfilling the COVID-19 vaccine requirements to achieve the government’s target of vaccinating one million people daily as of July 2021. “The domestic COVID-19 vaccine stocks are sufficient to achieve the target,” PT Bio Farma spokesman for COVID-19 vaccination

Ministry eyes daily administration of 2 million COVID-19 vaccine jabs

June 24, 2021

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Health Ministry has outlined a target to administer two million COVID-19 vaccine doses per day, commencing from the second half of 2021. “It should be increased to two million shots per day, as compared to 700 thousand jabs per day earlier,” Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia’s esteemed ulema and founder of the now-defunct Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Habib Rizieq Shihab rejected the East Jakarta District Court’s verdict sentencing him to four years imprisonment over the Ummi Hospital swab testing case. “I reject the verdict and appeal to the higher court against it. Thank you,” Shihab noted in response to the verdict that the court’s judiciary panel, headed by Khadwanto, read out during a live-streamed court hearing on Thursday. Judge Kadwanto handed Shihab the prison term in the Bogor City-based Ummi Hospital’s swab testing case for having stirred anxiety in the community owing to his misinformation on his health condition although he was confirmed to have suffered from COVID-19 symptoms. However, Shihab rejected the judges’ ruling that he had violated Article 14 (1) of Law No.1 of 1946 on misinformation resulting in a four-year prison term awarded to him. One of Shihab’s lawyers, Sugito Atmo Prawiro, also appealed to a higher court against the verdict although the prison term handed out to his client was lighter than the six-year imprisonment demanded by the prosecutors. On May 27, 2021, the same district court had also sentenced Shihab to eight months in prison and imposed a fine of Rp20 million on him over breaching the country’s health quarantine law in connection with several crowd-drawing events in Jakarta and Megamendung, West Java, last year. Owing to the case of alleged breach of the government’s health protocols during a series of crowd-gathering events at his home and the FPI headquarters in Petamburan, Central Jakarta, in November 2020, Shihab was detained on December 12, 2020. ANTARA noted that during the questioning that led to his detention, Shihab, who lost six of his guards that were killed in December last year, had to face 84 questions from the Jakarta police investigators, who charged him for violating Articles 160 and 216 of the Criminal Law. Regarding the Shihab case, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has pressed for applying fair law enforcement in the case of Shihab to avoid any offense to the public sense of justice in communities. “Law must truly be used as an instrument for educating and not as an instrument for targeting,” MUI Deputy Chairman Anwar Abbas had noted in a press statement last year. Abbas emphasized that law enforcement against Shihab and his men over the cases of holding crowd-drawing events must also be imposed fairly and equally on other community members found breaching the government’s COVID-19 protocols in the country. Failing to implement the principle of fair law enforcement and public sense of justice would only create unrest among members of the public, he cautioned. Source: Antara News

June 24, 2021

Semarang, C Java (ANTARA) – Indonesia’s Naval Chief of Staff Admiral Yudo Margono urged workers at the Tanjung Emas Port, Semarang, to receive vaccine jabs to support the government’s endeavors to attain herd immunity projected to make Indonesia COVID-19 free. “It is well known that seaports are economic centers. There

Habib Rizieq Shihab rejects court’s verdict in swab testing case

June 24, 2021

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia’s esteemed ulema and founder of the now-defunct Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Habib Rizieq Shihab rejected the East Jakarta District Court’s verdict sentencing him to four years imprisonment over the Ummi Hospital swab testing case. “I reject the verdict and appeal to the higher court against it.

Oxygen concentrator stocks to suffice in tackling COVID-19 case surge

June 24, 2021

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Industry Ministry has made assurance of sufficient stocks of domestic oxygen concentrators to handle the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. “In essence, there is no scarcity of oxygen concentrators, as their stocks are sufficient to meet the high demand arising from a surge

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