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Edition 07 April 2020
Cover Story
Budgeting in the Time of Coronavirus
The discussion on the provision plan to bring in Covid-19 rapid test kit protracted. Many distributors offer various imported brands.
Cover Story
Not Quite a Priority
In the regions, the distribution of rapid test kits has not run smoothly. Testing has not always been performed according to procedure.
Cover Story
Multiple-Use Protective Gear
The government is purchasing protective gear at a high price. Materials for protective gear are obtained through diplomacy.
Cover Story
The Hunt for a Remedy
The government will test the efficacy of Avigan for Indonesians. Some referral hospitals are having difficulty obtaining drugs.
Cover Story
Holding Breaths for Ventilators
Hospitals assigned to take in Covid-19 patients are lacking ventilators. Engineers from universities to automotive companies are racing with time to make ventilators in anticipation of a surge in coronavirus cases.
Cover Story
Quarantine Dilemma
Taking into account the risk of mass panic and high costs of quarantines, the government opts to implement social-restrictions on a large scale. Not all of Jokowi’s ministers agreed.
Economy
Loose Timber Regulation
The trade minister issued a new regulation on forestry industrial products export. Some fear that the absence of requirements showing timber validity will increase illegal logging.
Economy
Ministry of Trade Secretary-General, Oke Nurwan
If Things Are Strict Upstream, Why Do We Fear Illegal Timber Downstream?
Market Pulse
Enduring the Hardship till the Cure Comes
THE global financial market is embracing the mother of all crisis. Analysts are increasingly convinced that the market collapse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will be worse than the 2008 crisis, and indeed every other crisis in history.
Law
Criminalizing Corona Speech
Police are arresting and questioning people considered to be creating public unrest over the coronavirus. Their criteria for doing so is seen as being vague.
Interview
Interview
Mohammad Syahril, chief executive officer, Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital: Not All Doctors Are Prepared
Outreach
Jengkol Against OIl Palm
A large number of residents of Uraso in North Luwu earn their living from the hundreds of trees in their fields, from dogfruit to pepper. Dispute remains with PTPN XIV.
Cartoon
Civil emergency
Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman
Letters
A Harvest City Resident’s Complaints
I am the owner of a house in Harvest City, Bekasi, West Java. My home loan agreement was approved by Bank BTN on September 20, 2016. In line with the agreement, the construction of my house would be finished in no later than 18 months or on March 20, 2018.
Outreach
Dogfruit Warrior
Uraso may be known as a jengkol (Archidendron pauciflorum) or dogfruit producer, but it was Seliwati who stood behind him.
Photo
Frozen With Fear
Opinion
Beware of Pandemic Freeloaders
The government must be alert to the potential misuse of state funds allocated for the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. This crisis must not become a cash cow for corrupt officials and crooked businesspeople.
Opinion
Mudik or No Mudik
The ambivalent policy of the president regarding the annual exodus to villages, or mudik, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic shows a lack of resolve in dealing with the crisis.
Opinion
Self-Defeating Regulation
The Ministry of Trade has scrapped the legality requirement for timber export sector. Widespread illegal logging will start again.
Opinion
Unnecessary Arrests
The police have arrested people accused of spreading fake news about the coronavirus. Hoaxes might be a reaction to the lack of transparency from the government.
Sidelines
When this pandemic is over and there are still people alive traumatized and scratching around for hope, or on the contrary, when this pandemic is over, death has declined, economic destruction has ended, and life is more peaceful, one name will be inscribed in thick letters: China.