Source: The ASEAN Post Date: 10 September 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the importance of access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. As we all know now, hand washing is one of the best frontline defenses against the virus. Yet three billion people – almost half of the world'...
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In Indonesia, coronavirus floods Cisadane River with extra hazard: medical waste
Source: Reuters Date: 1 September 2020 For the residents along Indonesia's Cisadane River, the coronavirus has brought not just deadly disease, but also a deluge of medical waste: a constant stream of syringes, face masks and hazmat suits floating by. The double threat for those who depen...
Examining the pandemic’s impact on the irrigation and drainage sector and opportunities for recovery
Source: World BankDate: 22 June 2020 Every industry, sector, and economy has suffered from the devastating effects of COVID-19. The irrigation and drainage (I&D) sector is no exception, as the pandemic continues to have complex and far-reaching impacts across the water-energy-ecosystem-food nexu...
The Covid-19 pandemic is threatening vital rainforests
Source: VoxDate: 23 June 2020 The coronavirus is undermining efforts to control rainforest fires in Indonesia and Brazil. And those fires could worsen the pandemic. One of the most alarming environmental problems stemming from the coronavirus pandemic is the unchecked destruction of tropical rainfor...
Overcrowded homes and a lack of water leave some Indonesians at risk of the coronavirus
Source: The ConversationDate: 8 May 2020 A lack of access to a household toilet and clean water are putting many people in parts of Indonesia at risk of infection from the coronavirus. These findings come from a study we carried out in 2018 that examined multidimensional poverty in South Sulawe...
Jokowi Establishes Corona Outbreak as National Disaster
Source: CNN IndonesiaDate: 13 April 2020 The government has officially declared the coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19) a national disaster. Determination of the status of the national disaster was stated in Presidential Decree Number 12 of 2020 concerning Determination of Non-Disaster Spread of Covid...
Residents told to stay at home for 2 weeks as Jakarta goes into partial lockdown
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 10 April 2020 Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has urged all residents to stay at home for the next 14 days as the capital city imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) on Friday to cut the chain of COVID-19 spread. Jakarta is the first province in the country t...
Indonesia's COVID-19 death toll tops 200 as government warns of asymptomatic transmission
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 6 April 2020 Indonesia's death toll from the novel coronavirus disease topped 200 on Monday, with the government voicing particular concern about transmission from asymptomatic carriers as the number of positive cases continue to rise. Health Ministry Disease Control...
ADB: Slowing Down as a result of COVID-19, Indonesia's economy begins to recover 2021
Source: Media IndonesiaDate: 3 April 2020 Indonesia economy is expected to grow 2.5% by 2020 amid a new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, down from 5.0% in 2019. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released today, Friday (3/4). "Although Indonesia has a strong macroeconomic found...
BIN Prediction, COVID-19 Case Reach 106,278 in July
Source: Media IndonesiaDate: 3 April 2020 Head of the COVID-19 Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID, Doni Monardo, revealed that the number of coronavirus cases (COVID-19) is estimated to reach 106,278 in July. The projection is based on a review of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN...
Jokowi's Complete Statement Sets Emergency Health Status because of Corona
Source: detikNewsDate: 31 March 2020 Jakarta - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has decided on the central government's policy to deal with the latest Coronavirus (COVID-19), namely Large-Scale Social Restrictions. For this reason, Jokowi asked all local governments not to take their own policies. "...
Jakarta, a coronavirus epicenter in Indonesia, braces for quarantine
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 29 March 2020 While local administrations have begun to block road access into their areas in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, the government has prepared to quarantine the country's capital, which has been most affected by the disease. The Transportatio...
G20 Conference Commits to Finding Coronavirus Vaccine
Source: Tempo.coDate: 27 March 2020 TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday, March 26, participated in the G20 summit to discuss the global approach in handling the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic. Jokowi participated in the virtual conference of Group of 20 majo...
ITB Researchers Predict Indonesia's Coronavirus Epidemic Peak
Source: Tempo.co Date: 19 March 2020 TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Researchers at the Center for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) predicts that Indonesia's coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic peak will happen at the end of March and eventually end in mid-April....
COVID-19: Indonesia records highest death toll in Southeast Asia at 19
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 18 March 2020 Indonesia's death toll from the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 jumped to 19 on Wednesday, the highest in Southeast Asia to date, as the government announced that the number of infected people had reached 227. Health Ministry Disease Control and Preve...