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First time we came across the term educide, used here to describe a situation in which Depok’s municipal government plans to close or merge more than 20 schools in the city in a decision from 2020. State Elementary 1 at Pondok Cina wasn’t the only one metro.tempo.co/read/1679914/s…
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You can now use your Peduli Lindungi in all 27 countries of the European Union, after the block recognizes the Indonesian system as equivalent. Conversely, travelers who have EU digital certificates don't need to download Petooty Linguini to access public places in Indonesia.
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Dr Mohammad Syahril, director of Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectitious Disease said a total of seven have died with symptoms of Acute Hepatitis of Unknown Cause in Indonesia. According to the doctor, there are 18 probable and suspected cases nationwide.
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Indonesian civil servants, get ready to become military reservists!
According to the latest letter from the Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (yeah, that’s a thing), eligible civil servants will be drafted into a three month military reserve program.
Good luck
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Eight billion. That’s a lot of people on this tiny third rock from the sun. We’ve doubled the human population in under 50 years. twitter.com/cnnphilippines…
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President Jokowi has instructed the Sports Minister and the National Chief of Police to fully investigate last night’s football incident. The President has also ordered Liga 1 suspended until investigations are completed.
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Jakarta areas Sudirman, Thamrin, SCBD, and Kemang will have crowd free nights from midnight to 4am every weekend. Local residents excepted.
The cops actually called it “crowd free night” in English, probably because it covers mostly South Jakarta.
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From 1 March, incoming travelers both foreigners and Indonesian nationals can exit quarantine after three days provided they’ve already had a booster shot.
If national vaccination levels improve and infections fall, self or home quarantine for travelers may be an option.
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Apparently about half of South Korea lost their internet connection yesterday. According to KT Corp it was due to a routing error instead of DDoS attack. Sure.
Indonesia:
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A lot of people who bought tickets last week to see No Way Home this week through Tix ID received unrequested refunds last night and no longer have their tickets.
Our spider sense is tingling
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INA, THA, and NORK have been banned by the World Anti Doping Agency from hosting International or regional sports championships and the athletes cannot use the national flag in Int’l events for at least one year for not complying with anti doping standards.
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Arema FC has been banned from hosting matches for the rest of Liga 1 season 2022-2023, announced M. Iriawan as the head of PSSI, this morning. Other sanctions for the Malang-based club may follow after official investigation reports have been submitted pssi.org/news/pssi-duku…
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Shang Chi. 22 September in Indonesia
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The Indonesian government has unblocked PayPal and give Indonesians until Friday, 5 August, to access and withdraw their money.
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Indonesia suspends umrah trips to Saudi Arabia until further notice. The last group departed on Saturday and there won’t be more pending further assessment of the omicron situation, according to the Religious Affairs Ministry. Returnees from will undergo quarantine for 7 days.
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Stay safe, everyone. Lots of areas in Jabodetabek and Palembang are under water
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Must have been a good weekend for the teen couple who totaled a government car in Jambi a few weeks ago after fleeing some chasers. They got off scot free.
The boy’s mother resigned from her parliamentary job and was transferred to another gov’t role.
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Police said they found more than 40 unopened bottles of homebrew alcoholic drinks at the stadium, alluding to an intention to incite public unrest by certain spectators. Turns out they’re cattle medicine for foot and mouth disease.
What in the holy mother of frickin hell … 😐 twitter.com/NarasiNewsroom…
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1k fewer active cases, under 1 million vax doses today.
Cases: 4,235,384 (+626)
Recoveries: 4,075,011 (+1,593)
Deaths: 142,999 (+47)
Active cases: 17,374 (-1,014)
Vax 1: 107,981,016 (+477,78)
Vax 2: 653,188,800 (+456,232)
Vax 3: 1,073,746 (+3,685)