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Tens of homes catch fire in West Jakarta

Tens of homes in a densely-populated area in Taman Sari, West Jakarta, caught fire on Saturday night but no casualties ...

Moderate quake hits North Sulawesi's Minahasa District

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hit Minahasa District, North Sulawesi Province, early Sunday but it did not potentially ...

News Feature

Social distancing: workers find working from home challenging

Teaching is not for everybody, especially those who do not have a passion for it. Teaching three- to four-year-olds ...

News Feature

Students, universities cope with challenges as classes move online

The cost of living for Aulia Bening Safira, a student of the Jakarta State University (UNJ), has decreased after ...

Govt facilitates arrangement of medical equipment distribution permit

The government is facilitating the arrangement of distribution permit for medical devices required in handling COVID-19 ...

Three domestic companies ready to produce thousands of ventilators

Three state-owned domestic companies voiced readiness to produce thousands of ventilators deemed necessary for patients ...

Indonesia to produce 16,000 WHO-compliant PPEs per day

Domestic businesses will soon start producing 16 thousand pieces of personal protective equipment, or PPEs, daily, and ...

Indonesia posts US$743.4 million trade balance surplus in March 2020

Indonesia's trade balance recorded a surplus of US$743.4 million in March 2020, with exports valued at $14.09 ...

Jokowi to optimize domestic industry for COVID-19 Response

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has outlined four steps to optimize the domestic industry in response to the COVID-19 ...

Weekend Stories

Reporting on COVID-19: Journalists torn between caution, duty

At a time when all Indonesian citizens have been asked to stay at home to curb coronavirus transmissions, there are ...

Some 5,047 West Java workers laid off as COVID-19 impact

Some 5,047 workers in West Java were laid off, April 5, after companies in the region were acutely hit by the impact of ...

Ministry imposes import relaxation on PPE, health equipment

Trade Minister Agus Suparmanto has imposed relaxation on export and import regulation on health equipment and personal ...

Ministry proposes soft loans for SMEs affected by COVID-19 pandemic

The Industry Ministry has proposed soft loans for small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) to help them pay laid-off ...

Ministry to step up production of personal protection equipment

The Industry Ministry has channeled its efforts to intensifying the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) ...

News Focus

Before coronavirus, the world once fought off smallpox

The whole world is currently battling a new virus strain that causes acute respiratory complications — the novel ...