Day: March 1, 2023

Minister asks local govts to validate extreme poverty data

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (PMK), Muhadjir Effendy, has asked local governments to verify data on people living in extreme poverty in their respective regions.”Each region must carry out validation regarding the P3KE (Targets for the Acceleration of the Alleviation of Extreme Poverty) data, thus

BKKBN raises early marriage issue at Arab-Asian Parliamentarians event

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) raised the issue of early child marriage during a meeting of Arab and Asian Parliamentarians here on Wednesday.”The high number of child marriages is a threat to the fulfillment of children’s basic rights,” BKKBN’s deputy for training, research, and

Govt trying to keep staple prices in check ahead of Ramadhan: VP

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Vice President Ma’ruf Amin has said that the government has anticipated an increase in the prices of basic commodities ahead of the holy month of Ramadhan.”The government has actually anticipated it through efforts to tackle inflation,” he informed during a working visit to Surakarta, here on Wednesday.

Excessive use of headset can trigger hearing loss: health official

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Exposure to loud noise and excessive usage of headphones for a prolonged period of time can lead to hearing loss, director of non-communicable disease control at the Ministry of Health, Eva Susanti, has said.Specifically, exposure to noise of intensity above 80 dB for a duration of over

Ministry devises strategies to handle projected global decline

We have to expand the market, not just traditional markets in the West (the United States and Europe), but also in other ASEAN countries Lampung (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Trade has prepared a number of strategies for handling the global economic decline predicted for this year, Minister of TradeZulkifli

6,000 hectares of Bekasi farmland flooded: ministry

Bekasi, West Java (ANTARA) – At least six thousand hectares of farms in Bekasi, West Java, based on satellite imaging, have been inundated due to heavy intensity rainfall coupled with river overflow, Agriculture Ministry Syahrul Yasin Limpo informed on Wednesday.”This one location in Bekasi district, what we noted according to