Day: April 3, 2022

Maisonette house can be solution for urban housing: PUPR Ministry

Innovative-designed houses such as maisonettes, can be a solution to meet the housing needs in urban areas, according to the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry (PUPR). “Typology model of maisonette houses appears to be the solution to meet the residential needs in urban areas hindered by limited land that

US donates 35.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Indonesia

United States has donated some 35.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Indonesia and 500 million doses of vaccine globally as of March 17, 2022. With an additional 3.5 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arriving in Jakarta on Sunday (April 3), the United States has donated 35.8 million doses

Rights body backs TNI chief allowing ex-PKI descendants to be soldiers

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has expressed support for National Defense Forces (TNI) Chief General Andika Perkasa’s step to allow the descendants of former political prisoners of the now defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) to join TNI. “Komnas HAM highly lauds the recruitment of TNI soldiers which

Waste handling in fishery sector requires SOP: DFW

NGO Destructive Fishing Watch (DFW) has underlined the importance of standard operating procedure (SOP) as a guideline for waste handling in the national fishery sector. DFW Program Coordinator Hartono said in a statement on Sunday, that the institution has developed an SOP document that became a guideline for fishermen and

Central Kalimantan prepares human resources for IKN

The Central Kalimantan provincial government is preparing quality human resources  for the relocation of new capita city, Nusantara (IKN) in East Kalimantan. “We have to prepare our human resources to be ready and competitive for the IKN,” Central Kalimantan Deputy Governor Edy Pratowo noted here on Sunday. To this end,

Strengthening regional government’s authority to equalize development

Currently, equal development is an utopian ideal that not only developing countries are trying to realize, but also several advanced nations. They still struggle to eliminate the inequality that exist in their respective nations in order to realize a more harmonic civic living. The motivation to eliminate inequality drove the