A port functions beyond the country’s gate for ships to dock and sail, and for Indonesia, an archipelago, with two-thirds of its territory being waters, it plays a strategic role in driving the economic engine. The mobility of its people and goods more or less still relies on water-based transportation
Coordinator of the COVID-19 Emergency Hospital (RSDC) Wisma Atlet Kemayoran, Major General Dr Tugas Ratmono, noted that less than 500 COVID-19 patients were receiving treatment at the hospital. Dr Ratmono pointed out that if the patient count continued to stabilize below 500, then the COVID-19 pandemic was estimated to have
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi visited the Soekarno Hatta (Soetta) Airport to review the passengers’ health check conducted at the Arrival Terminal in Tangerang on Sunday. Minister Sumadi noted that the mandatory PCR test conducted on international passengers at Soetta Airport would minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission since the
Some 100 Indonesian migrant workers from Sarawak, Malaysia, are admitted at the Entikong border crossing on a daily basis, Head of the Entikong Border Crossing Viktorius stated. “The border crossing admits around 30 to 100 people daily, and most of the migrant workers went back to Indonesia voluntarily,” Viktorius stated
Head of the East Nusa Tenggara Transportation Service, Isyak Nuka, confirmed that six ports of the province will be covered under the new sea toll route connecting Surabaya-Kupang-Marauke. “Tenau, Wini, Atapupu, Waingapu, Reo, and Labuan Bajo are the six stopover ports of the new sea toll route,” he noted on
The third batch of the US-donated 1,140,750 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Indonesia on Sunday. Indonesia had earlier received 877,500 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Sept 16 and 1,755,000 vaccine doses of Pfizer on Sept 17 from the US through the COVAX global dose-sharing mechanism. The