Indonesia Highlights: Indonesia's Daily Covid-19 Cases Approach 10,000 | Indonesia to Administer A Million Vaccine Doses A Day in July | Indonesian State Firms Expected to Pay Out 35 Trillion Rupiahs

KOMPAS.com – Indonesia’s Covid-19 Task Force has announced that the number of new Covid-19 cases has reached 9,944 over 24 hours as of June 16, bringing the total number of infections nationwide to 1,937,652.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo aims to speed up the mass vaccination program in Indonesia by administering a million vaccine doses a day starting from July.

Below are excerpts from the news in Indonesia, curated by Kompas.com editors:

Indonesia's Daily Covid-19 Cases Approach 10,000

Indonesia’s Covid-19 Task Force has announced that the number of daily Covid-19 cases continues to crawl upwards, more than a month after the Eid al-Fitr Islamic holidays on May 13 and 14.

“The number of new Covid-19 cases has reached 9,944 over 24 hours as of June 16. This took the number of coronavirus cases to 1,937,652,” the Task Force said on its website.

They noted that the 9,944 cases are the highest number to be detected in a day, since it reached 10,180 on February 22. “Since then, daily Covid-19 case numbers have declined until the end of May.”

However, the number of cases last February is still lower than during the peak of the Covid-19 crisis last January. The peak of Covid-19 cases in Jakarta came on January 30, which saw 14,518 new cases over 24 hours.

“53,476 Indonesians have died of Covid-19, since the pandemic was detected in March 2020,” the Taskforce noted.

“Another 120,306 others are active cases, while 1,763,870 others recovered from Covid-19.”
The number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia has fallen between February to May 2021, before it surged following Eid al-Fitr.

Source: https://go.kompas.com/read/2021/06/17/071825374/indonesias-daily-covid-19-cases-approach-10-thousand.

Indonesia to Administer A Million Vaccine Doses A Day in July

Dok. Sekretariat Presiden Indonesia's President Joko Widodo visits a vaccination center at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in Senayan, Jakarta to get a closer look at the vaccination program provided for the people working in the financial services sector on Wednesday, June 16, 2021.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo aims to speed up the mass vaccination program in Indonesia by administering a million vaccine doses a day starting from July.

“We have been administering half a million vaccine doses a day. In July this year, we must achieve a million doses per day,” Jokowi said during his visit to the vaccination center at the Bung Karno Gelora Complex Senayan, Jakarta on Wednesday, June 16.

By accelerating the vaccination program throughout the country, Jokowi hoped that herd immunity will soon be formed. Thus, the rate of Covid-19 transmission can be reduced.

"We hope this (vaccination) can also be carried out for other sectors so that we can slow down the spread of the Covid-19 in the shortest possible time," he said during the vaccination program provided for the people in the financial services sector.

The third phase of mass vaccination involved 10,000 peoples in the financial services sector. The program is targeting to inoculate as many as 100,000 people from this sector next week.
"I hope that other regions can increase the number of the Covid-19 jabs so that the speed of vaccination in the financial services sector will soon reach herd immunity, at least in August," he said.

The Covid-19 vaccination program in Jakarta has entered its third phase since May this year. This stage of vaccination targets vulnerable groups in the red zones (high risk of coronavirus transmission).

Recently, the President instructed Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and other officials to inoculate 7.5 million residents by August.

Source: https://go.kompas.com/read/2021/06/16/171645174/indonesia-to-administer-a-million-vaccine-doses-a-day-in-july.

Indonesian State Firms Expected to Pay Out 35 Trillion Rupiahs in Dividends

KOMPAS.com/SUCI RAHAYU Indonesia's State-Owned Minister Erick Thohir.

State-owned enterprises are expected to pay out 35 trillion rupiahs ($2.45 billion) in dividends this year or up 34.6 percent from 26 trillion rupiahs ($1.82 billion) last year.

“Insya Allah [God willing] there will be an increase in a dividend payment of 35 trillion rupiahs this year,” State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir said in a virtual event on Tuesday, June 15.

Erick said that last year’s target of dividend payment to the government was at 40 trillion rupiahs. The target, however, did not achieve due to the Covid-19 pandemic, he said.

He said the ministry will work hard to achieve the targeted dividend payments. To do so, he said that the internal state firms must improve, starting from their human resources to their business processes.

"We want how to improve the state-run firms based on good human capital, good business so that our target is to pay out as many dividends as possible to the state," he said.

In terms of human resources development, the ministry has implemented a capacity building program to strengthen business knowledge and risk management. From the business side, state firms are urged to restructure their business models through business model innovation.

Source: https://go.kompas.com/read/2021/06/16/221403974/indonesian-state-firms-expected-to-pay-out-35-trillion-rupiahs-in-dividends.