Asia Indonesia Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin emphasised the need to provide adequate education to the community so that they are not afraid to undergo breast cancer screening at health facilities to enable early diagnosis
Asia Indonesia Ministry of Religious Affairs plans to establish a new Directorate General for pesantren, the Islamic boarding schools, to improve regulatory support and resource allocation and expand developmental programs to better serve Indonesia’s Muslim community
Asia Indonesia A female Sumatran elephant, a subspecies of the Asian elephant considered to be at serious risk of extinction, was born in the Buluh China Nature Park in north-west Sumatra; the WWF estimates that there are now only between 2.400 and 2.800 individuals
Asia Indonesia In Jakarta teenagers are being trained in urban farming practices, including vertical planting, hydroponics and organic composting, to foster local food production and reduce dependency on global supply chains
Asia Indonesia State-owned PT PLN is supplying electricity to a 1 million-hectare food estate in Merauke, South Papua, with its Electrifying Agriculture program that aims to replace diesel-powered with electric tools for a more sustainable and productive agriculture