Month: January 2023

Jakarta govt providing COVID vaccinations in residential areas

Jakarta – The Jakarta Health Office has tasked officers from community health centers (puskesmas) with making direct visits to residential areas in the province to provide COVID-19 vaccination services.”Puskesmas (officers) directly visit residents to …

Jakarta tackles extreme poverty with 17 kinds of social aid

Jakarta – The provincial government of Jakarta has so far distributed 17 types of social assistance to address extreme poverty in the province.“We have made that many interventions,” Acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono informed here on Tuesday.He said th…

Minister clears the air on poverty alleviation fund

Semarang, Central Java – The Rp500-trillion poverty alleviation fund, which has become the subject of a polemic lately, is a social protection fund and not purely meant for poverty alleviation, the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultur…

Ministry seeks to conserve culture by revitalizing local languages

The Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry (Kemendikbudristek) is striving to protect and revitalize local cultural wealth, including native languages, through educational transformation efforts.”Protecting local languages is not an easy…

MPR seeks road map for Papuan civil servants’ development

Jakarta – The Indonesian People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR RI) has urged the government to prepare a road map for enabling the development of Papuan civil servants without delay.”We urge the government to immediately prepare a road map for improving…