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Tenggara Backgrounder August 21, 2020
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Healthcare capacity nears limit amid COVID-19 surge
Now in the seventh month of the pandemic, Indonesia has recorded a nationwide COVID-19 tally of 144,945 confirmed cases with 1,902 new cases on Wednesday. The country’s positivity rate and case-fatality ratio (CFR) have been rising since the governme...
Indonesia’s zealous COVID-19 vaccine hunt continues
State-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma and Chinese counterpart Sinovac Biotech have begun their third and final phase of clinical trials involving as many as 1,620 volunteers for a potential COVID-19 vaccine. The seemingly steady progress of th...
Assembly puts constitutional amendment plan on backburner
The plan to amend the Constitution, a major and potentially divisive if not explosive political proposal, has been shelved for now as political parties cannot agree on whether to go for a limited amendment or allow for a more sweeping review of the c...
Indonesian crewmen suffer rights abuses, lack legal protection
Violations of Indonesian crewmen’s rights continue to happen. An Indonesian crewman was found dead aboard a Chinese fishing vessel in July, only two months after the death of four Indonesians working on another fish boat and that prompted the governm...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Deficit haunts 2021 state budget despite optimism over recovery
President Jokowi predicted swift economic recovery in 2021 during his annual state budget speech. Nevertheless, the budget deficit in 2021 will remain beyond the 3 percent legal limit, specifically at 5.5 percent of GDP. To finance the deficit, the g...
New mining regulator faces tough challenges against coal barons
Ridwan Djamaluddin, a former deputy to Coordinating Minister Luhut Pandjaitan, has been appointed the mineral and coal mining (Minerba) director general at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry to implement the controversial, newly amended 2020 M...
Lobster seed exports benefit Gerindra-affiliated companies
Opposition against Minister Edhy Prabowo’s decision to roll back the lobster seed export ban is growing bigger, with the country’s two largest Muslim organizations joining the fray, and yet the minister has turned a blind eye, continuing with the pol...
New cash transfers miss workers in the informal sector
President Jokowi will launch a cash transfer program for formal sector workers earning less than Rp 5 million on Aug. 25. The cash transfer program is hoped to increase consumer spending and household demand as a part of the PEN program. However, thi...
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