Day: December 4, 2022

Maintaining rice stocks to control inflation

Rice is one of the food commodities that contributes significantly to food inflation and greatly influences the national inflation rate, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS). Data recorded by BPS has shown that rice prices experienced an inflation of 1.13 percent in October 2022 and contributed 0.34 percent to national inflation.

Search for crashed police helicopter extended for another three days

The joint Search and Rescue (SAR) team had extended the search for  the National Police’s NBO-105 helicopter which crashed in Manggar waters, East Belitung District, Bangka Belitung Islands Province, for another three days. Head of the Pangkal Pinang Class B SAR Office I Made Oka Astawa said in Manggar Sub-district on

Bulog has prepared 100 tons of rice assistance for Papua, West Papua

The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) unveiled that it has prepared 100 tons of rice assistance to be supplied to all cities and districts in Papua and West Papua Provinces as an anticipatory action in disaster management. The supplies of the 100 tons of rice were funded by the government, Bulog-Papua

Papua urged to develop tourism sector more seriously: BPS

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has called on the Papua administration to pay more serious attention to tourism development as the sector is a promising source of locally generated income (PAD), the agency’s official said. Papua Province has abundant tourist attractions and destinations, Coordinator of the Functions of Statistical Distribution at BPS-Papua

Govt targets to build nuclear power plant in 2039: Bapeten

The government has set a target of realizing the construction of a nuclear power plant in 2039 to help the country achieve the target of net zero emissions and national energy resilience, Indonesia’s Nuclear Energy Control Agency (Bapeten) said. “Under the energy transition scheme conveyed at a nuclear energy meeting,

Police direct large vehicles to highway as landslide covers bridge

Bogor Police applied traffic engineering by directing large vehicles to the Bocimi Toll Road, as a road section in Bogor-Sukabumi National Road, precisely at the Cikereteg Bridge, was covered in landslide materials. “(To avoid) avalanches that cause human and vehicle accidents, we carry out traffic engineering by limiting the number