{"id":3349,"date":"2020-04-14T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/?page_id=3349"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:28:21","slug":"update-6-april-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/?page_id=3349","title":{"rendered":"Update #6           April 7, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=&#8221;1_1&#8243; layout=&#8221;1_1&#8243; background_position=&#8221;left top&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; border_position=&#8221;all&#8221; spacing=&#8221;yes&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; margin_top=&#8221;0px&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;0px&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;&#8221; animation_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; center_content=&#8221;no&#8221; last=&#8221;no&#8221; min_height=&#8221;&#8221; hover_type=&#8221;none&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Indonesia Corona Virus Update #5 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 April 6, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Number of reported cases: 2491 (as of April 6)\u00a0\u00a0 202 Deaths\u00a0 192 Recoveries\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The last 24 hours had the highest number of total cases to date: 181.\u00a0 18 doctors have perished. President Jokowi has asked the public to don a face mask in public. The\u00a0Indonesian\u00a0Medical\u00a0Association (IDI) and many other professional groups voiced their protests to the government\u00a0about\u00a0insufficient personal protective equipment for doctors, nurses, and medical workers involved in the handling of the coronavirus outbreak, even threatening a strike if the government does not meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Finance Minister Sri Mulyani announced that a team for her ministry and several academic institutions estimates that the number of cases will peak at 95,000 in May.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Equipment\/tests:<\/strong> Reports indicate that Indonesia has taken delivery of test kits and materials for both types of Covid-19 tests. However, the government has not issued definitive data on the numbers of kits and materials received.\u00a0 Officials also intend to obtain special equipment to accelerate PCR testing. Specifically, because Indonesia is one of the world\u2019s few countries that still records large numbers of tuberculosis (TB) infections, hospitals are relatively well-equipped with devices for examining respiratory tracts for TB. Experts hope that modifying these machines with specialized cartridges will enable their use in detecting Covid-19.\u00a0 (Reformasi Weekly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Press reports and comments from the Indonesian Doctor\u2019s Association indicate that the country is running low or may even have exhausted available ventilators.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T<\/strong><strong>ravel to Indonesia Banned: <\/strong>All travel to Indonesia has been temporarily banned for foreigners.\u00a0 Exceptions are made for Indonesians and those with work, diplomatic and residency permits. All entrants are subject to a 14-day quarantine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guidelines for Eid Prayers and Meals\/Mudik Confusion: <\/strong>Religious Affairs Minister Fachrul Razi issued guidelines restricted prayer and meal gatherings to just families during Ramadan. Normally large groups gather at mosques and households at the end of each of the 30 fasting days.\u00a0 Ramadan begins April 23. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">President Jokowi has decided against banning the mass exodus \u201creturn to one\u2019s home\u201d <strong>(<em>mudik),<\/em><\/strong> urging against it instead. However, Indonesia\u2019s Vice-President Ma\u2019ruf Amin is working to persuade\u00a0The Council of Indonesian Ulamas<em> (MUI)<\/em>\u00a0to render a <em>fatwa <\/em>(legal ruling under Islamic Law)\u00a0declaring it sinful to make the traditional homecoming<em>\u00a0(mudik)<\/em>\u00a0at the end of the fasting month <em>(Eid). \u00a0<\/em>(MUI has previously only advised against the mudik). \u00a0Other voices, such as West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil are calling for a ban on the mudik.\u00a0\u00a0 Print and social media has picked up on the different visions.\u00a0 One headline read \u201cMany official voices, an ever more confused public\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aid package\/Fiscal Deficit to Widen:<\/strong> The government announced a sweeping $24.8 billion aid package. (<a href=\"http:\/\/outlookindonesia.com\/\">see Outlook Indonesia #4<\/a>) and will likely move past its traditionally conservative budget deficit of less than 3% of GDP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rupiah:<\/strong> 16,556 (as of April 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stock Index<\/strong>: JCI (main stock exchange index) rebounded slightly from last week\u2019s low to <strong>4,811.8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ADB Predicts 2.5% Growth: <\/strong>The Asian Development Bank predicted 2.5% GDP growth for 2020, mostly due to the COVID-19 virus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layoffs: <\/strong>The Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration\u00a0and Energy Agency said\u00a0a total of 162,416 workers have been laid off, put on unpaid forced leave\u00a0or are working reduced hours affected by the measures by\u00a0April 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(<em>sources: International and Indonesia news media, Bali Update (from balidiscovery.com), Reformasi Weekly)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/fusion_text][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2194,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"side-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3349\/revisions\/3360"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}