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Wearing masks can protect elderly: UI School of Medicine dean

Dean of the University of Indonesia's School of Medicine, Professor Ari Fahrial Syam, has urged Indonesians to wear ...

Jakarta confirms extension of worker registration certificates

The Jakarta administration unveiled that the worker registration certificates, or "STRPs," had automatically ...

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Oxygen aid flows in as Indonesia fights for breath

For healthy people, oxygen is everywhere, free and taken for granted. But, for COVID-19 patients in Indonesia, medical ...

Bogor mayor urges central government to deal with oxygen scarcity

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya has urged the central government to take a swift action to deal with medical oxygen scarcity in ...

AYLI commends companies' oxygen donation initiative to save patients

Patron of Jakarta-based Al Azhar Youth Leader Institute (AYLI) Sariat Arifia praised companies and organizations that ...

Jakartans advised against hoarding or stockpiling oxygen cylinders

The Jakarta administration has made an earnest request to the city's residents amid the COVID-19 case surge to ...

Indonesia's SOEs distribute 27 tank containers of oxygen to hospitals

Several state-owned companies assist the government to cope with a COVID-19 surge that has triggered a drastic increase ...

Surabaya contemplates turning stadium into COVID-19 isolation center

The Surabaya administration is ruminating on a plan to convert the Gelora Bung Tomo (GBT) Stadium into a field ...

Sako Suban villagers oppose coal road inside South Sumatra forest

Villagers of Sako Suban, Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra, urged the environmental affairs and forestry ministry to review ...

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Govt leans on development agenda to push Papua autonomy

Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR) is striving to finish the renewal of the Papua Special Autonomy Law ...

Nutritionist cautions of muscular weakness arising from overhydration

A medical nutritionist at the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) Jakarta, Dr Diana Sunardi, forewarned of ...

Government should re-contemplate halting cash aid for poor: lawmaker

Deputy House Speaker Azis Syamsuddin has appealed to the Social Affairs Ministry to reevaluate stopping cash social ...

South Sumatra police apprehend 49 suspected drug traffickers, users

The police in South Sumatra Province arrested 49 people suspected of trafficking and consuming crystal methamphetamine, ...

BNPB's funding for housing reconstruction in post-quake West Sulawesi

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is contemplating on offering stimulus fund to residents whose houses ...

Death toll in W Sulawesi's 6.2-magnitude quake rises to 73

The death toll from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled Majene and Mamuju Districts in West Sulawesi Province on ...