Government spokesperson for COVID-19 Handling, Reisa Broto Asmoro, has urged all parties to remain alert even though genome sequencing has not detected the Omicron variant in Indonesia. “Even though as of last night, Indonesia’s whole genome sequencing has shown that the Omicron variant is not found yet in Indonesia, high
The city of Jakarta has been selected for the Urban Innovation Challenge launched by Utopia and the World Economic Forum’s New Centre for Urban Transformation. This is because Jakarta is seen as having shown support for the growth of entrepreneurship and start-ups, Governor Anies Baswedan said here on Friday. In
The Indonesian government is committed to providing optimal protection to citizens by improving COVID-19 handling and tightening mobility rules during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays to prevent transmission, a spokesperson has said. “The government is still committed to giving maximal protection to citizens, improving the quality of COVID-19 handling,
Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim has said that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the incidence of sexual violence in Indonesia. “Data has shown that women have become vulnerable to sexual violence, and there has been an increase in cases of sexual violence against women throughout January
The death toll in the eruption of Semeru, a volcano in Indonesia’s island of Java, has risen to 43, with 104 people injured, the National Disaster Management Agency said yesterday. Yesterday’s evacuation process was stopped, as the search and rescue location was covered by dark and overcast clouds, to avoid
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Liverpool for a series of in-person meetings with foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as part of a December 9-17 trip that also will take him to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Hawaii. The top U.S. diplomat was