Tag: Indonesia

May 7 (TheStraitsTimes) - In a desperate bid to save hungry animals from being killed and fed to one another, the Indonesian Zoo Association has kicked off a fund-raising drive as the coronavirus pandemic takes a toll on zoo coffers. Closed since mid-March, the 57 zoos across the country had enough funds to last only three to six months, mostly to ...

Jakarta, March 31 (The Straits Time) - Indonesia will temporarily ban all visits and transits by foreign nationals to the country to curb the further spread of the coronavirus. "President (Joko) sees that our current policy needs to be made stricter. We have decided that all visits and transits by foreign nationals to Indonesia will temporarily be banned," Foreign Minister ...

Jakarta, March 2 (Reuters) - Two Indonesians have tested positive for coronavirus after coming into contact with an infected Japanese national, President Joko Widodo said on Monday, marking the first confirmed cases in the world’s fourth-most populous country. The discovery comes after some medical experts had raised concerns about a lack of vigilance and a risk of undetected cases in ...

Jakarta, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday, paralyzing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety. Indonesia’s weather agency linked the rains to tropical cyclones that brought bad weather to southern parts of the archipelago. It also warned ...