The Bekasi city government, West Java, has distributed 16,560 condoms as part of efforts to prevent the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). “The use of contraceptives can reduce the risk of HIV transmission by up to 95 percent,” Head of the Bekasi City Health Office Tanti Rohilawati said here on
People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat encouraged the government to consistently and comprehensively educate the community and stakeholders on the importance of using new, renewable energy. “The transformation to the use of new, renewable energy requires basic efforts, such as the dissemination of consistent and comprehensive education to
The provincial government of Bali has allocated Rp8.9 billion for controlling inflation in the province until the end of 2022 to bring down Bali’s inflation rate to stand below the national average. Regional Secretary of Bali Dewa Made Indra noted here on Friday that in accordance with the central government’s
Indonesia is gradually scaling down the consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a type of greenhouse gas, Director General of Climate Change Control at the Environment and Forestry Ministry Laksmi Dhewanthi informed here on Friday. The effort to slowly reduce HFC consumption is aimed at contributing to the fulfillment of the Montreal Protocol, and
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will urge the House of Representatives (DPR) to promptly ratify the Asset Confiscation Bill into law, according to the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD. “(The bill) is now at the DPR, and Mr. President and the government will push for (the bill’s) passing and
The Papua provincial authority has committed to providing a Rp10-billion (US$670 thousand) grant for the three new provinces of South Papua, Central Papua, and Papua Pegunungan. Assistant for economic affairs and people’s welfare of the Papuan regional secretary, Muhammad Musa’ad, informed that the grant would be allocated from the amended