Day: August 27, 2021

West Papua encouraging eco-friendly investment: official

The West Papua provincial authority and development partners are committed to collaborating for encouraging eco-friendly investment and youth businesses in the region, an official said during a seminar here, on Friday. “Young entrepreneurs and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are essential to develop the regional economy and to reduce

Jakarta office engineers traffic flow at Glodok-Kota MRT site

The Transportation Office of Jakarta engineered the traffic flow at the construction site of the MRT Phase II on the Glodok-Kota Station route on Gajah Mada, Hayam Wuruk, and Pintu Besar Selatan Avenue. “I advise road users to avoid these (three) roads and adjust to the traffic rearrangements,” Head of

BRI holds Hedging School to edify about economic risk mitigation

State-owned bank PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) TBK, or BRI, held a Hedging School to enable market players to prepare various risk mitigation strategies amid market and economic uncertainty. “Hedging can be defined as an ‘insurance’ for market players to anticipate any number of possibilities in future,” Primary Vice Director

Open to collaboration with startups across industry: Astra Digital

PT Astra Digital Internasional (Astra Digital), as a part of the Astra Group, is open to investing in or collaborating with startups across industries, the company’s director, Wiwie Yudiyanto, has said. “Astra Digital is open for all startups from various industry. We open ourselves to see how we can collaborate

85% Jakarta teachers vaccinated against COVID-19: Governor Baswedan

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has assured that 85 percent of teachers who will participate in face-to-face learning have been vaccinated against COVID-19. “Thank God, until today, 85 percent of teachers in Jakarta have been vaccinated, the rest 15 percent are those who have comorbidities,” the governor informed during the groundbreaking

Surveys indicate Ridwan Kamil’s electability is most stable: expert

Political expert, concurrently lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Padjadjaran University, Firman Manan assessed that West Java Governor M. Ridwan Kamil was the most stable presidential candidate as compared to other figures. The polls were conducted as presidential candidate surveys were released last month, one of which was