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Malnutrition can raise risk of infectious, non-communicable diseases:

Malnutrition can raise the risk of health problems and infectious and non-communicable diseases, including ...

1,800 Social Affairs Ministry civil servants get COVID-19 vaccination

A total of 1,800 civil servants (ASN) at the Social Affairs Ministry were administered the COVID-19 vaccination in a ...

Fishing vessel captain accused of abandoning 7 seamen

The captain of a fishing vessel, KM Jaya Utama, has been accused of leaving seven crew members stranded at the Merauke ...

Two million children to become poverty-stricken sans social aid

Over two million Indonesian children would be plunged into poverty if the government halted social assistance to poor ...

Baktimed, European body donate Rp60 mln for quake victims

The Bakti Nusantara Medika Foundation (Baktimed) and the European Association for Advanced Indonesia (PETJ) on Tuesday ...

News Focus

Social security program seeks to address poverty challenge

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has triggered a global economic crisis, is posing a real challenge to many countries, ...

Students pulled out of school, pushed into marriage amid pandemic:

The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, which is forcing students to study online from home, is becoming a trigger for many to ...

Coronavirus may survive on mask for a week: researcher

SARS-CoV 2 causing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can last inside a surgical mask for seven days and its front or ...

Economic recovery program rescued five million people from poverty

The national economic recovery program (PEN), especially social protection in 2020, rescued over five million people ...

Indonesia's Gini ratio rises to 0.385

Indonesia’s Gini ratio, a statistical measure used for gauging economic inequality in a population, rose slightly ...

Number of poor Indonesians rose by 2.76 million amid pandemic

The number of Indonesians living in poverty rose by 2.76 million to reach 27.55 million of the population in September ...

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No cinema, no problem: Films to watch from home in 2021

Theaters have remained closed and many movie productions have been suspended indefinitely as part of precautionary ...

APEC sees softer contraction in 2020, uneven recovery in 2021-2022

Rebound in economic activity in the Asia-Pacific region in the second half of 2020 and continuance of fiscal and ...

Opinion

Science has delivered, will the WTO deliver?

A proposal by India, South Africa and eight other countries calls on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to exempt ...

Social Affairs Ministry records budget realization of 97.11% in 2020

The realization of budgetary funds at the Social Affairs Ministry reached 97.11 percent of the ceiling of Rp134.17 ...