Last week, the mayor of Ecuador’s largest city ordered the international airport’s runway blocked to prevent a KLM airliner from landing to pick up Dutch tourists stranded by the coronavirus.
Politics
The leader of one of Indonesia’s biggest provinces has set up dedicated services to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, drawing in one of The Australia-Indonesia Centre’s partner Universities.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) in Surakarta City, Central Java, decided to defer the stages of regional elections to thwart the spread of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as Indonesia is witnessing a rising death toll.
The West Java Health Agency started distributing a million masks for the province’s residents and more than 1,000 units of personal protective equipment for medical personnel on Monday.
Indonesia’s guided-missile frigates recent underwent a round of combat system upgrade testing. It spotlighted the Southeast Asian state’s ongoing attempts to boost its maritime capabilities.
Deputy Mayor of Bandung Yana Mulyana has been tested positive for COVID-19. “I have run test and it comes back positive,” said Yana through a video received by Tempo on Monday, March 23, 2020.
Australian government recently endorsed stricter social distancing measures to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, requiring four square metres of space per person in an enclosed room.
Indonesian people say they have limited knowledge about the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.
Australia’s Pacific Step-Up strategy is considered the country’s highest foreign policy priority. The core component of Australia’s doctrine has been to prevent unaligned powers from gaining significant influence in the South Pacific.
Build things, cut some red tape, improve access to basic services (though not necessarily their quality), & make civil servants more efficient.
Now that the government has declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national disaster, immediate measures are imperative to protect the whole population of this country from the contagious disease.
The Quad aims to tie the four corners of the Indo-Pacific together in high level security dialogue among the four ‘like-minded’ democracies — Australia, Japan, India and the United States (notably absent Indonesia).
Indonesia is urging that countries band together in the fight to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus globally, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Friday.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that he and his ministers will be tested for the coronavirus, a day after Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi was confirmed to have been infected.
Australia is doing a lot of thinking about what steps to take in the South Pacific. How high does the ‘Pacific step-up’ have to go? How many different steps? Step style? Step hierarchy?
Last week, Indonesia’s deputy minister visited one of the facilities of Indonesia’s state-owned companies.
