Day: August 23, 2021

The Wisma Atlet Kemayoran emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients in Central Jakarta recorded 132 daily recoveries on Monday, a military official has said.

So far, 123,173 patients treated at the hospital have made a full recovery, the Joint Regional Military Command (Kogabwilhan) I spokesperson, Colonel Marshal Aris Mudian, said in a written statement received in Jakarta on Monday.

From March 23, 2020 to Monday, August 23, 2021, the Athlete’s Village hospital registered 125,997 patients, out of whom 124,771 were outpatients, he said.

The hospital discharged and referred 1,006 patients to other hospitals, while 592 patients succumbed to the disease during the period, Mudian said.

The hospital currently has 1,226 inpatients, comprising 589 male patients and 637 female patients, he said.

Mudian also shared the latest updates from the Nagrak Apartment and Pasar Rumput Apartment COVID-19 emergency hospitals.

“As of Monday, at 8 a.m. (local time), the Nagrak emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients was recorded treating 14 patients. They comprise nine men and five women,” he stated.

Meanwhile, 94 patients — 46 men and 48 women — were admitted at the Pasar Rumput Hospital, he said adding, the number of patients was 25 less than the previous count of 119.

He also shared the latest data from the Galang Island Infectious Disease Hospital (RSKI) in Riau Islands Province.

From April 12, 2020 to August 23, 2021, Galang Island Hospital has registered 15,602 patients, of whom 8,060 have recovered and 7,297 suspected patients have completed their course of treatment, he disclosed.

“There are 203 hospitalized patients (at the hospital currently), consisting of 132 men and 71 women,” he said.

Till date, the Galang hospital has not recorded any deaths due to COVID-19, he added.

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Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Indonesian government is working earnestly to control the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had the country in its grip for the last year and a half, Vice President Ma’ruf Amin has said.

“The government is working earnestly to control the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from calling for and enforcing the implementation of the 3M (wearing mask, physical distancing, washing hands), increasing the 3T (tracing, tracking, treatment), and accelerating the implementation of vaccinations,” he remarked, while giving directions at the 2021 National Coordination Meeting for the Acceleration of Prevention of Growth Failure in Children, held virtually on Monday.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a test for Indonesia because it has a wide impact — not only in the health sector, but also in the social and economic sectors of the community, the Vice President said.

“This pandemic requires us to remain strong in the face of it. As a nation, we are struggling together to face the test,” he said.

A number of government work programs have also experienced obstacles in their implementation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially service activities that require direct interaction with the community, Amin observed.

“The budget allocation and health services are also focused on efforts to overcome COVID-19,” he said.

Referring to the program for reducing stunting in children, he said he hoped that the target achieved can be maintained even in the midst of the pandemic.

Indonesia managed to reduce the stunting rate from 37.2 percent in 2013 to 27.7 percent in 2019, he noted.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge for efforts to accelerate stunting reduction. The achievements that have been good for the past seven years must continue to be maintained to achieve the 14-percent target by the end of 2024,” he said.

Earlier the same day, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said he is optimistic that Indonesia’s stunting prevalence rate would reduce to 14 percent by 2024 through evidence-based and intensive intervention.

“Intensive efforts will be taken to accelerate the reduction in stunting prevalence in Indonesia until the stunting prevalence rate in our country reaches a negligible level,” Sadikin said in his opening remarks at the national coordination meeting on stunting prevention, broadcast by the Vice President’s Secretariat on Monday.

The interventions to reduce stunting rate will be aimed at toddlers, teenagers, future brides and grooms, and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, he added.

“Our program will focus on provision of sufficient nutrition and healthcare services, implemented in stages from the local healthcare center to hospitals, with assured support from stakeholders,” the minister stated.

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At least 168 small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) workers in West Jakarta participated in a mass vaccination program organized by the city government on Monday.

The mass vaccination program at the Rawa Buaya Assisted Location (Lokbin), Cengkareng, West Jakarta, was intended for registered MSMEs and small merchants based outside the West Jakarta area of governance, officials said.

Head of West Jakarta sub-department for industry, trade, cooperatives, small and medium enterprises (Sudin PPKUKM), Nuraini Silviana, said the program was carried out to protect MSME workers from the deadly virus.

“We deliberately place it at the target location because we want to pick up the ball. It has been proven that many MSME players have participated in the vaccination program,” Silviana added.

She said that 168 people out of the 219 recipients targeted by the program received the vaccine.

The target was not met because some participants did not meet the health requirements for vaccination, she informed. She said her administration will carry out similar activities in several markets or assistance locations under the West Jakarta City government.

She said she expected all MSME players to be vaccinated through the program so that their economic activities could return to normal.

Since last July, several mass vaccination programs have been carried out in West Jakarta, including the ‘Merdeka Vaccination’ hosted by the West Jakarta Metro Police.

West Jakarta Metro Police chief Senior Commissioner Ady Wibowo said that 240 thousand people in the area have participated in the Merdeka Vaccination program so far. The vaccination participants visited the Merdeka Vaccination outlets spread across all West Jakarta sub-districts, he informed.

“The closing were 240 thousand people. If we say the maximum target is achieved, it is because 100 percent is impossible,” Wibowo said.

The mass vaccination program will be continued to cover more people, he added.

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Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has urged all mass organizations to unite in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in different sectors ranging from health to the economy.

“In the midst of global challenges, all countries including this nation, we are back to strengthen togetherness, and solidarity in order to suppress and control the COVID-19 pandemic,” the minister said at the virtual opening of the 2021 Ormas Expo on Monday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a multidimensional and the most widespread crisis to be seen since Indonesia’s independence, he observed.

The health crisis has also had a domino effect on other sectors and that needs to be dealt with together, Karnavian said.

History has shown how the Indonesian people have been able to maintain their independence and have managed to overcome various challenges, he noted.

“We need to join hands to build strength and togetherness; our nation stands because of togetherness; we can still survive and reach 76 years because of our togetherness, government and non-government, all elements of the nation,” the minister remarked.

The theme of the 2021 Ormas Expo is “The Role of Mass Organizations in National Economic Recovery and Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

The event was first held as a gathering place for mass organizations to create innovations in organizational governance, Director General of Politics and General Governance at the Ministry of Home Affairs Bahtiar said.

He said currently, there is a need for mass organizations to innovate, for example, in organizational governance by utilizing information technology. Especially in the midst of a pandemic, which requires an adaptive attitude to be able to continue to survive, he added.

“Hopefully, this little thing we do can inspire all of our friends to make community organizations as strategic partners,” Bahtiar said.

A total of 22 mass organizations are participating in the 2021 Ormas Expo, held from August 23-29, 2021. The event can be followed online at the ormas-expo.id page.

Source: Antara News

Nearly 382 work packages with a budget ceiling of Rp11.1 trillion were still running in Jakarta during the COVID-19 pandemic until August 18, 2021, the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) has noted. “All packages are running because there is a mandate from the Minister of Home Affairs’ Instruction that construction activities are critical and can operate 100 percent,” Director of Construction Services Development of the PUPR Ministry Putut Marhayudi said in a discussion about construction during the pandemic here on Monday.

The value of the budget ceiling of the work package in Jakarta was around 8.5 percent of the total budget ceiling throughout Indonesia which reached Rp130.22 trillion with 5,362 work packages, he explained.

The categories of work packages include construction work, consulting services and other services and goods.

“The number of packages is quite large in conditions such as these. We must pay attention together because we are still in a pandemic situation. There are still public activity restrictions that affect the implementation of work in the field,” he said.

In addition, the handling of the COVID-19 emergency hospital was also conducted through five hospitals in Jakarta out of a total of 33 in several cities in Indonesia.

The 33 hospitals added a capacity of 2,811 hospital beds and 5,989 beds in isolation rooms.

Putut Marhayudi hoped that the spending would boost the community’s economic growth to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is one of the priority efforts to accelerate economic recovery and social reform.

“We must ensure that state spending related to infrastructure development can contribute to positive growth for the community’s economy,” he said.

Source: Antara News