Day: July 2, 2021

Moderna vaccines will need special storage technology: BPOM

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Moderna vaccines, secured by Indonesia under the Covax facility, will require special storage technology, head of the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM), Penny K Lukito, has said. “Because Moderna will be the first messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine to be received in Indonesia, it will

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Canadian warship Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Calgary made a port of call in Jakarta on July 1-3 whilst sailing through the Indo-Pacific on Operation Projection. HMCS Calgary’s deployment on Operation Projection reflects Canada’s commitment to global peace and security and an opportunity to build ties and hone interoperability with partner nations, according to a press statement by the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta received here on Friday. The ship will conduct cooperative deployment with the Indonesian Naval Ship KRI Bung Tomo on July 3 before heading to the coast of Australia where it will practice interoperability with Australian, American, and other regional partners during Exercise Talisman-Sabre. Exercise Talisman-Sabre is the largest bilateral combined training activity between the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the United States military. Canadian Ambassador to Indonesia, Cameron MacKay, accompanied by Canadian Ambassador to ASEAN, Diedrah Kelly, visited the ship at the Port of Tanjung Priok on Friday where they were both welcomed by the ship’s crew that remained onboard the ship. “HMCS Calgary’s visit to Jakarta is a concrete demonstration of Canada’s growing partnership with Indonesia and our joint commitment to peace, security, sustainability, and prosperity at home and abroad,” Ambassador MacKay stated. “HMCS Calgary is very glad to have the opportunity to work with our Indonesian partners as we sail through the Indo-Pacific on Operation Projection. Maintaining interoperability between our nations is important to ensuring regional peace and maritime security,” Commander Mark O’Donohue, the commanding officer at HMCS Calgary, remarked. HMCS Calgary has been deployed since February. On Operation Projection, the ship has, so far, visited Brunei, Vietnam, and Singapore. The Canadian warship recently travelled to the Middle Eastern waters for the counterterrorism mission Operation Artemis where they conducted maritime interdiction and security operations with the 34-nation coalition Combined Maritime Forces and Canadian-led Combined Task Force 150. On Operation Artemis, HMCS Calgary was successful in breaking the record for the largest amount of heroin seized, largest quantity of impounding, and maximum quantity of illicit narcotics seized by any ship on a rotation in the history of deployment. With the conclusion of Operation Artemis, the ship is again on Operation Projection. After Australia, the ship is scheduled to visit New Zealand and Fiji before returning to Canada in September. Source: Antara News

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Canadian warship Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Calgary made a port of call in Jakarta on July 1-3 whilst sailing through the Indo-Pacific on Operation Projection. HMCS Calgary’s deployment on Operation Projection reflects Canada’s commitment to global peace and security and an opportunity to build ties and

Emergency PPKM: BI maintains forecast of 7% credit growth

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Bank Indonesia (BI) has said it is optimistic that credit will continue to grow in line with its previous projection of 5-7 percent for this year even amid emergency public activity restrictions (emergency PPKM). “So far, we have not revised it yet. We still estimate that this

Finance Minister raises health budget to Rp185.98 trillion

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has decided to increase the budget allocated to the health sector to Rp185.98 trillion from Rp172.84 trillion to support the enforcement of emergency public activity restrictions (PPKM). The restrictions will be implemented from July 3 to July 20, 2021 to contain a

53,000 military-police personnel to enforce emergency PPKM during Adha

Jakarta (ANTARA) – As many as 53 thousand personnel from the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police (Polri) will be deployed to enforce emergency public activity restrictions ( emergency PPKM) across regions during Eid al-Adha this year. “We have safe operation of Nusa II COVID-19. Of the seven task

160 students vaccinated against COVID-19 in East Jakarta

Jakarta (ANTARA) – At least 160 students of the state Islamic senior high school (MAN) 2 in Ciracas, East Jakarta received COVID-19 jabs under the vaccination program for children aged 12-17 years on Friday. “In total, (the school has) 803 students. They have been divided into several batches (for the