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Yogyakarta (ANTARA) – Yogyakarta Mayor Haryadi Suyuti has asked residents to comply with regulations promulgated under Level 3 community activity restrictions (PPKM) to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the city.

“We have to learn from our experience facing the second wave in June–October last year. It takes about four to five months to flatten the curve,” Suyuti said on Wednesday.

Therefore, to avoid a similar trend in 2022, Yogyakarta residents must comply with Level 3 PPKM regulations, he added.

“The goal is to flatten the graph of COVID-19 cases in Yogyakarta. If we fail to do that, the activity restrictions will extend longer,” he warned.

Suyuti said he believes the community is also hoping that cases would be controlled quickly so that restrictions can be revoked on various community activities, including economic and business activities.

In addition to community compliance with the Level 3 PPKM rules, which will be in effect until mid-February, field supervision is also an important part of the restrictions, Suyuti said.

“Regulatory tightening without supervision will not be optimal. That is why monitoring is also important,” he explained.

The Yogyakarta city government will issue a Mayor’s Instruction as a derivative of the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 9 of 2022 and the Instruction of the Yogyakarta Governor regarding the implementation of Level 3 PPKM, he informed.

A number of rules have been implemented under Level 3 PPKM, he said. Visits to tourist attractions have been capped at 25 percent capacity and visitor capacity at shopping centers and markets has been limited to 60 percent, he elaborated.

“The community’s discipline in implementing the health protocols must also be maintained. In addition, I ask people to immediately receive booster vaccinations for those who have met the requirements,” the Mayor said.

On Wednesday, Yogyakarta logged 103 additional cases of COVID-19, with six recoveries and no deaths. Currently, the city has 461 active cases.

Source: Antara News

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Consistent downstreaming will help strengthen the exports of industrially processed goods and reduce the dominance of oil and gas exports, Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi has said.

“We export 76.49 percent of industry-processed products. This will be bigger in the future as oil and gas (goods) would be reduced in proportion,” the minister said at the Mandiri Investment Forum here on Wednesday.

In the category of industrially processed products, electronics, steel, and automotives are currently Indonesia’s top exports, he noted.

Indonesia has the potential to be a country that has power in the iron and steel processing industry, he added.

“When I was leaving BKPM (the Investment Coordinating Board), we were still negotiating to export iron and steel worth US$2 billion. At that time, there was an attempt to downstream nickel,” Lutfi said.

He also lauded the entry of Indonesian steel and iron commodities into the Chinese market. This means they can also reach other countries such as those in Europe and Africa, he explained.

Therefore, Indonesia needs to have a great trade agreement that allows it to sell steel products, he said.

Meanwhile, another reliable industry-processed product is Crude Palm Oil (CPO), which is often sought by China and even Europe, Lutfi noted.

He also highlighted that 18.3 percent of Indonesia’s electronics exports go to Singapore, which is believed to be only a transit country. From Singapore, electronics are exported again to other countries, he said.

Indonesia is focusing on exporting industrially processed products to increase the added value of exports, he added.

“We are applying the stages of conversion, this has happened and we have achieved success,” Lutfi said.

Furthermore, Indonesia is aiming to export refined nickel products as well as process bauxite into alumina and aluminum ingots, he added.

Source: Antara News

Indonesia’s National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) has recorded 1.65 billion cybersecurity traffic anomalies during the period from January to December 2021.

This has indicated that internet users in Indonesia are under the threat of infection and information theft, Acting Deputy for Cyber and Crypto Security Operations at BSSN Ferdinand Mahulette stated.

“Traffic anomaly can happen at any time, and that will make us anxious. Indonesia has borne witness to several traffic anomalies, reaching more than 1.6 billion in 2021,” Mahulette stated during a webinar titled “The Role of ICT in Strengthening National Critical Infrastructure” on Tuesday.

Mahulette noted that 62 percent of the traffic anomalies in Indonesia were malware infections; 10 percent, trojan activity; and nine percent were attempts to collect targets’ information.

“This shows that one of the challenges in this digital transformation process is how to build security awareness for all stakeholders,” he noted.

The high percentage of malware infections in traffic anomalies in Indonesia is an indication that user activities on the internet are overshadowed by threats of infection and information theft that may be conducted through malware infections.

Furthermore, Mahulette noted that throughout 2021, some 5,574 hacking cases were recorded, with 36.49 percent of them targeting higher education sites, 25.1 percent attacking private sites, and 18.23 percent zeroing in on local government sites.

“There are many aspects that we have to fix, as many people are trying to conduct digital transformation but do not care or do not realize that an element of security is being ignored,” he noted.

Hence, all levels of society should work jointly with BSSN to create a safer and more cyber resilient condition in Indonesia.

“Our cybersecurity is very vulnerable. Let us work together to secure all of this,” he remarked.

Source: Antara News