Day: July 20, 2021

NTT reopens Padar Island to tourists

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (NT (ANTARA) – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) authorities reopened the Padar Island tourist resort in Komodo National Park (TN), West Manggarai District, to tourists after being shut since July 5 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Director of the Executing Agency for the Labuan

Idul Adha as sacrifice for something better: Governor Baswedan

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Governor of Jakarta interpreted Idul Adha as a long sacrifice during the COVID-19 pandemic in pursuit of something better. “We are sanguine that God would replace this long sacrifice with something better Insya Allah (God’s will),” Baswedan stated on his Instagram account @aniesbaswedan here on Tuesday. During his speech,

Indonesia’s poverty rate reduction possible through Java-centric cut

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia’s poverty rate can be curbed if the poverty eradication program is focused on the country’s most populated island of Java, according to Chief of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Margo Yuwono. “Java has a very large population,” Yuwono noted in a press statement on Tuesday. The

Five hotspots indicating forest fires detected on Sumba Island

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA) – Five hotspots, indicative of forest fires, were detected on Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province, the El Tari Kupang Meteorological Station confirmed here on Tuesday. “Of these five hotspots, one was found in Katikutana Sub-district, Central Sumba District, and four in East Sumba

Over 10 percent of factory workers exposed to COVID-19: KSPI

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) President Said Iqbal revealed that the COVID-19 positivity rate from the factory cluster surpassed 10 percent, thereby necessitating several thousand workers to conduct self-isolation without medicines and vitamins. “While (the employees) are conducting self-isolation, factories are closed, as they unlikely impose

“Indonesia Spice Up the World” to boost culinary industry: Uno

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, the tourism and creative economy minister, concurrently Tourism and Creative Economy Agency’s head, is optimistic that the “Indonesia Spice Up The World” event would boost the country’s culinary industry. Uno noted in a statement here on Tuesday that his ministry fully supported the promotion