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Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono and Lord LBP announced that booster shots will be made available from 1 January 2022. Roughly 100 million people will be eligible to get it for free while the rest will have to pay. The shots are expected to cost less than Rp300k each.
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Quarantine-skipping IG celebrity Rachel Vennya, her boyfriend, and her manager have been sentenced to 4 months in prison with 8 months probation. They won’t go to prison as long as they don’t break the law for eight months. They’ve also been ordered to pay Rp50 million each.
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Bandung mayor Oded M Danial passed away today. He was supposed to give a Friday prayer sermon at a mosque but collapsed before he gave his sermon. He was rushed to a local hospital but doctors were unable to save him. May he RIP
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CGK immigration officers detained an Iranian national who had with him 11 phones, multiple foreign SIM cards, three passports, two still valid, and Malaysian ex-cop ID cards. The man had entered Indonesia 30 times since 2012 but was only of interest since 2020.
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The 36-year old prime minister of Finland was out clubbing until nearly 4am on Tuesday when she received a message telling her she needed to quarantine because her finance minister, whom she had a meeting with earlier, was positive. She didn’t see the message.
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Is that how you’re supposed to remove a column? twitter.com/AlBurhanCenter…
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100 million fully vaccinated. Woohoo
Cases: 4,258,340 (+264)
Recoveries: 4,109,068 (+351)
Deaths: 143,909 (+16)
Active cases: 5,356 (-103)
Vax 1: 143,794,042 (+502,690)
Vax 2: 100,459,272 (+633,828)
Vax 3: 1,250,506 (+1,636)
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The Health Ministry has disputed the announcement by Bekasi’s health office which said that they found four cases of omicron infections among Jakarta residents who recently arrived from overseas.
The Ministry said no such cases have been found in the country. For now. At least.
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With over 3,200 people affected by the heavy rains and flood in Makassar the last few days, Mayor Danny Pomanto claimed that there’s no flood in Makassar, only puddles of water.
He must have learned it from the Fauzi Bowo School of Disaster Management
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Nothing like waking up to non stop rain for two days
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LBP has canceled PPKM level 3 between 24 December and 2 January nationally in favor of determining the level according to weekly testing and vaccination efforts as it has been since July.
Vax 1 rate in Java-Bali has reached 76% and vax 2 nearing 56%. Nationally it’s 68% and 47%
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You’re stuck in a snowstorm. Choose your scenario: IKEA or a pub with an Oasis tribute band.
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Death toll from the Semeru eruption has risen to 22, BNPB said with 22 more missing and possibly buried underneath thick layers of ash and mud. More than 2,000 people have been evacuated. Photo: Basarnas
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Active cases down by >1.8k
Cases: 4,257,815 (+130)
Recoveries: 4,108,297 (+2,005)
Deaths: 143,876 (+9)
Active cases: 5,642 (-1,884)
Vax 1: 142,700,940 (+268,593)
Vax 2: 99,225,572 (+215,991)
Vax 3: 1,247,407 (+2,276)
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WTH TRANSJAKARTA? This is what, the fourth or fifth accident in as many days? We’re already deprived of over 200 buses from safety evaluation, are we going to see more buses grounded?
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Indonesia will begin offering Covid-19 booster shots for the fully vaccinated in January and the President urged that vaccinations for children under 12 be accelerated. BPOM has so far only approved the use of Sinovac for 6-11 y.o but no plans to start until 2022.
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Death toll from yesterday's Mt Semeru eruption has risen to 13, BNPB said. 41 suffered burns from the hot ash. 902 evacuated from their homes.
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Several locals reported that the eruption was so massive it blocked out the sun, making the afternoon dark as night. Rain is also triggering volcanic mud slides.
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Mount Semeru erupted sending a wall of hot clouds barrelling down towards nearby villages.
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Malaysia’s Health Minister on the country’s first Omicron case twitter.com/Khairykj/statu…
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The physician for Sleman Football Club resigned after allegations surfaced that he’s not an actual doctor. He’s not registered to any doctor’s association and his degree was fraudulent. The man had been part of several football clubs previously including the U-19 national team.
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If your ISP, website, service, or app depends on the facilities at the Cyber building in Kuningan, expect some disruptions given the fire that just happened there. APJII said the data center is unaffected but some companies have shut down services for precautionary measure.
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Apparently the Social Affairs Minister thinks that deaf people should force themselves to speak in public “to maximize God’s gift to us, mouth, eyes, ears. But I hope we can all try,” she said during an an event observing the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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