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Government ensures migrant workers return to their hometowns safely

The government would facilitate Indonesian migrant workers to return to the country in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic ...

Rescue workers dispatched to locate missing tugboat skipper

A search has been launched for the skipper of tugboat Multi Sahabat 8, who went missing after his vessel capsized in ...

Helicopter pressed into service to locate missing fishermen

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has deployed a helicopter to search for three fishermen who went missing ...

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Wuhan to Natuna: Journalists' take on covering repatriated Indonesians

A few short weeks before the President Joko Widodo announced the first COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia, the public had ...

Apply technology to prevent land, forest fire: President

President Joko Widodo highlighted the need to apply technology to prevent land and forest fires while monitoring ...

BNPB assesses damage from 7.1-magnitude quake in North Maluku

Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is currently assessing the damage caused by a ...

BTNGR to soon reopen Mount Rinjani's hiking trails for climbers

The Mount Rinjani National Park Office (BTNGR) plans to soon reopen the hiking trails of Mount Rinjani on Lombok ...

New normal implementation stage-wise and on priority scale: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo emphasized that the new normal order will be implemented in each region in stages and based on a ...

Magnitude-6.8 earthquake strikes Morotai, damaging 312 homes: BNPB

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolting Morotai District, North Maluku Province, on Thursday (June 4), caused damage to at ...

BNPB receives COVID-19 protective gear, diagnostic equipment

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has received assistance in the form of protective gear and COVID-19 ...

Spokesman confirms 180 new recoveries from COVID-19 infection

Indonesia recorded 180 new recoveries from the COVID-19 infection on Wednesday, thereby bringing the total count of ...

President orders immediate dissemination of "new normal" protocols

President Joko Widodo called to immediately disseminate information to the public on the new normal protocols to be ...

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Indonesians asked to prepare for new normal

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked Indonesians, and businesses entities in particular, to prepare to coexist ...

Patients recovering from COVID-19 continue to increase to 5,402

Government spokesperson for COVID-19 Handling Achmad Yurianto said the number of patients recovering from COVID-19 ...

COVID-19 Task Force chief performs Eid prayers at BNPB Building

Chief of the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Handling Doni Monardo who is also head of the National ...