Coronavirus lockdown sends solo sailor from Singapore on Pacific odyssey
SINGAPORE, May 8, 2020, BBC. One man’s dream to spend three years sailing solo around…
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Indonesia fortunate to choose social distancing over lockdown: Jokowi
JAKARTA, May 8, 2020, ANTARA. President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) believes Indonesia is lucky to choose…
International tourism to plunge up to 80 per cent due to coronavirus: UN
MADRID, May 8, 2020, AFP. The number of international tourist arrivals could plunge by 60…
Indonesia’s president Jokowi calls for flattened coronavirus curve in May ‘by any means necessary’
JAKARTA, May 7, 2020, The Jakarta Post. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called on the…
Indonesia starts year with weakest economic growth since 2001
JAKARTA, May 5, 2020, Bloomberg. Indonesia’s economic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of…
Bali puts entire village on lockdown after hundreds tested in Bangli regency
JAKARTA, May 4, 2020, The Jakarta Post. The Bali administration has made the decision to…
India’s coronavirus lockdown curbs buffalo meat exports, hitting Ramadan supplies
KUALA LUMPUR/MUMBAI, May 3, 2020, Reuters. For more than a decade Kuala Lumpur street vendor…
Indonesia repatriates nearly 70,000 migrant workers from Malaysia
JAKARTA, May 2, 2020, Jakarta Globe. People’s Consultative Assembly Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has asked the…
Indonesia struggles to stem layoffs
JAKARTA, May 2, 2020, NST. About a third or around 15,000 from about 40,000 manufacturing…
Indonesia prevents dengue, malaria to avoid double health burden amid corona
JAKARTA, May 1, 2020, ANTARA. As Indonesia battles the novel coronavirus disease, another health threat…
Indonesia rallies to keep Covid-19 vaccines, drugs affordable
JAKARTA, May 1, 2020, The Jakarta Post. As countries and private institutions rush to produce…
Tight control of movement in the main towns near the Papua New Guinea’s border with Indonesia
PORT MORESBY, Apr 30, 2020, RNZ. Measures against the spread of covid-19 have changed the…