#august 17

Collection of august 17 news, found 582 news.

10.45 million merchants using QRIS: Bank Indonesia

The Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) is being utilized by 10.45 million of the 12 million targeted ...

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East Java 'Spiderman' ready to climb to top spot at PON

After completing training in the field of the East Java Youth and Sports Office in Kertajaya Avenue of Surabaya, Rahmad ...

World is in awe of Indonesia's pandemic control: Governor Baswedan

 Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan reasserted that the international community was in awe of Indonesia's ...

IndiHome organizing Cool Indonesia program to support art talent

IndiHome, which is a part of state-owned telecommunication company TelkomGroup, has launched a program called 'Cool ...

Keeping Indonesia's railway business on track during pandemic

The transportation sector has largely suffered since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced people to ...

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Okmin University fuels hopes of human resource development in Papua

Thanks to Okmin University, native Papuans in the outermost regions of Pegunungan Bintang district, Papua, now have the ...

Questions on health protocols linger as Papua sports week approaches

Several international sports events that were supposed to be hosted in Indonesia this year had to be postponed due to ...

Digital television broadcasts to be free for public: Kominfo

The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) has reaffirmed that digital terrestrial television broadcasts ...

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COVID wake up call for Indonesia to improve medical industry capacity

President Joko Widodo, in a video that later went viral, visited a pharmacy in Bogor, West Java on July 23, 2021 to buy ...

Minister inspects industry full operation trial in Tangerang

Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita has inspected industries in Tangerang, Banten Province, that carried out ...

Ministry lauds stakeholders' efforts to eradicate online loan fraud

based peer-to-peer lending that may link to various online threats, such as victim manipulation, information hacking ...

PPKM lowers daily COVID-19 case count: Healthy Ministry's spokesperson

Continued decline in the daily COVID-19 case count nationally until August 17, 2021, to reach 20,741 was thanks to ...

Anticipating potential of COVID-19 becoming endemic: govt

The Indonesian Government is anticipating the likelihood of the COVID-19 pandemic becoming endemic based on scientific ...

Directorate General of Taxes holds DJP IT Summit 2021

The Directorate General of Taxes (DJP) of the Finance Ministry organized the DJP IT Summit 2021 on grounds that DJP was ...

Kimia Farma slashes price for PCR swab test by half

State-owned pharmaceutical firm PT Kimia Farma Tbk has lowered the price for a PCR swab test to Rp495 thousand, from ...