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Wear masks to prevent pollution-related diseases : Minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has asked Indonesians to wear masks outdoors to prevent respiratory diseases caused ...

KPAI calls for screening children's health as air quality worsens

The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has underlined the need for screening the health of children in ...

Over 1,000 journalists to cover ASEAN Summit: minister

Communication and Informatics Minister Budi Arie Setiadi has informed that as many as 1,077 journalists have ...

Agency prescribes spraying water from buildings to curb pollution

Head of the Jakarta Environment Agency, Asep Kuswanto, has asked high-rise building managements in the capital to ...

President asks Jakarta to speed up transition to EVs

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked the Jakarta provincial government to accelerate the transition to electric ...

WFH policy devised for ASEAN Summit, not pollution control: minister

The issuance of a circular letter on the temporary adoption of the work-from-home (WFH) policy is aimed at making the ...

Cement industry not a source of Jakarta's air pollution: Ministry

The Industry Ministry has denied accusations that the cement industry's operations in Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) ...

Need to expedite building cheap, safe, integrated mass transport: MPR

Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Bambang Soesatyo has called for the acceleration of ...

Ministry forms respiratory disease, air pollution control committee

The Ministry of Health has formed the Committee for Respiratory Disease and Air Pollution Control as a response to the ...

Public should switch to LRT to improve air quality: Minister

- PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), PT Industri Kereta Api (INKA), and Adhi Karya -- is automatically run by an operation ...

President Jokowi inaugurates operationalization of Jabodebek LRT

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inaugurated the operation of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) for the Jakarta, Bogor, Depok ...

Health centers asked to routinely measure air quality in Jakarta

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has asked all community health centers (puskesmas) in Jakarta to routinely measure ...

Switch to public transport to reduce air pollution: Health Minister

Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin asked the community to use public transportation as an effort to reduce ...

VP Amin pushes for intensified emission tests to control pollution

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin urged all related stakeholders and the public to keep pushing for the intensification of ...

Indonesia to deploy EVs for ASEAN Summit

The Indonesian Government will use electric vehicles (EVs) to transport delegates during the 43rd ASEAN Summit in ...