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Covid-Free Pass Required to Travel to Bali
Starting tomorrow, travellers to Bali will have to show and carry a "covid free" pass. The local authority notified it yesterday in an attempt to preserve "the island of the gods" from a new spike in coronavirus infections. Checks will be carried out for all domestic flights, mainly at Ngurah…
Economic Recovery Strategy Focuses on Industrial Sector: Bappenas
Economic recovery strategy is focused on the industrial sector that can leverage employment and have high multiplier effects in the economic transformation framework, National Development Planning Minister/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Head, Suharso Monoarfa, stated. “The COVID-19 pandemic has surely hit the supply chain hard and decreased industrial utilization. Through…
Gov't Proposes $5 per Ton Carbon Tax to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The government has submitted a proposal to impose a carbon tax starting next year, as part of the country's tax code reform, to reduce carbon emissions and meet its commitment to climate change mitigation, a minister said on Monday. In the 2021 bill about the Revision of General Provisions and…
Recycling industry processing just one-third of nation's waste: govt
The domestic recycling industry has the capacity to process just two million tons of plastic waste out of the 6.8 million tons of waste produced in the country, a government official has said. "Only two million tons could be processed, it would need more investment to process the remaining four…
