Jayapura (ANTARA) – PT PLN will deploy a total of 564 officers to secure electricity supply during the 2021 National Games (PON) in Papua Province. The officers will commence their tasks for the September 19-October 17, 2021, period, PLN’s general manager of the Papua and West Papua regional main unit,

Medan, N Sumatra (ANTARA) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 rattled North Sumatra’s Nias Utara District on Saturday, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 9:41 a.m. local time on Saturday, was located at 1.94 degrees northern latitude and 96.91

Lubuk Basung, W Sumatra (ANTARA) – Some 426 hectares (ha) of the Maninjau Nature Reserve Forest area in Lubukbasung Sub-district, Agam District, West Sumatra Province, were encroached and converted into plantations of palm oil, coffee, rubber, mangosteen, and others. Of the 426 ha, some 60 ha were used for conversion

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah encouraged labor inspectors and mediators to coordinate with the COVID-19 prevention task force team in overseeing the implementation of emergency Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM), especially for the protection of workers’ rights. Intensive coordination between the head of the Manpower Service at the provincial,

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Joint combat training exercise involving Indonesian Army (TNI AD) and US Army’s Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) soldiers was held at the Army’s Strategic Command (Kostrad) battalions, Army Chief of Staff General Andika Perkasa stated. “The main objective behind holding the joint training between soldiers of the

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Cooperatives and Small and Medium Businesses Ministry has said it is aiming to boost the contribution of cooperatives to the national gross domestic product (GDP) to 5.5 percent by 2024. This would be in accordance with the target set in the medium-term national development plan (RPJMN)