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Indonesian leader urges for more effort to find submarine as oxygen falls short

Editorial Bureau April 22, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia’s president ordered more efforts to find a missing submarine to save the 53 crew, whose oxygen supply defence chiefs said would continue to last only until Saturday. Indonesia sent a helicopter and five ships to search waters north of the holiday

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Myanmar: Security forces kill nine protesters, Indonesia calls for end to violence

Editorial Bureau March 19, 2021

Military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress demonstrations by supporters of detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but that has not put off the protesters, with crowds turning out again in several towns. On Feb 1, security forces shot dead nine opponents, a funeral services provider and media said. Security forces […]

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Indonesia places order for 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses over private inoculations

Editorial Bureau March 15, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia hopes to receive 20.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Moderna Inc and China’s Sinopharm from the second quarter for use in a private vaccination scheme, said the head of a state pharmaceutical firm on Monday. Indonesia had given authorisation of one of the world’s first private vaccination programmes last

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Two cases of British COVID-19 variant reported in Indonesia

Editorial Bureau March 2, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Wiku Adisasmito, the spokesman for Indonesia’s COVID-19 task force said on Tuesday that the country has reported two cases of the more infectious COVID-19 variant first discovered in Britain. However, he declined to comment further on the new variant, known as B117.

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Efforts of Indonesia to defuse growing crisis in Myanmar falter

Editorial Bureau February 24, 2021

YANGON (MYANMAR) – The efforts of Indonesia to help defuse the crisis in Myanmar with the help of other Southeast Asian nations appear to be faltering with a proposed diplomatic visit cancelled. This comes as Myanmar was set for more street agitations on Wednesday against the junta. There were mammoth rallies this week and a […]

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Indonesian beach sees death of dozens of whales, rescuers save three

Editorial Bureau February 19, 2021

BANGKALAN (INDONESIA) – Forty-six whales, which were marooned on a beach on the Indonesian island of Madura have surrendered to death. However, rescuers managed to bring three of them back to safety, the provincial governor said on Friday. A rescue effort was initiated on Thursday after dozens of pilot whales beached. Volunteers helped bring some […]

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Indonesia frees British national serving jail sentence for death of cop

Editorial Bureau February 11, 2021

DENPASAR (INDONESIA) – A British national who was in prison for the death of an Indonesian policeman in 2016 on a Bali beach was released on Thursday after serving his sentence. David Taylor, 38, was sentenced to imprisonment in March 2017 along with his Australian girlfriend, Sara Connor, following the death of traffic policeman Wayan […]

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Relatives of Sriwijaya Air crash’s victims to be briefed ahead of preliminary report

Editorial Bureau February 10, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia’s air accident investigator will brief relatives of the 62 victims of Sriwijaya Air crash, which happened last month in Jakarta on Wednesday morning before the release of a preliminary report in the afternoon, a family member told. The briefing will be followed by one held for families on Tuesday in Pontianak, […]

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Indonesia grants approval for administering China’s Sinovac vaccine to elderly

Editorial Bureau February 6, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia authorities have given the nod for China’s Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 shot for its elderly population, said the food and drugs authority (BPOM) in a statement on Saturday. The letter showed that Bio Farma has approved the vaccine for those aged 60 and above after ‘taking into account the emergency situation”.

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Indonesia’s vaccine campaign faces glitch, amid raging pandemic

Editorial Bureau February 5, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo received the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine live on television last month, however, his ambitious inoculation campaign has stumbled, and is already facing glitches from factors such as refrigeration, distrust and disinformation. “Disaster,” said Pandu Riono, a University of Indonesia