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Sinar Mas Land through the Sinar Mas Land Muslim Foundation (YMSML) donated 1,000 copies of the Qur'an to the Dharma Wanita Union of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR).

friendship between people in Ramadan 1443 Hijriah. The manuscripts were then distributed to a number of mosques and Islamic boarding schools within the PUPR Ministry Hall, which are spread across 34 provinces of Indonesia. Chairman of the Sinar Mas Muslim Foundation, Saleh Husin, explained that waqf is a routine program of the foundation and all of Sinar Mas' business pillars. This activity is part of the Al-Qur'an Waqf program for the Country which has been consistently implemented by various business pillars of Sinar Mas since 2008. "This year coincides with Ramadan, we do it so that Muslims read and study the Qur'an during Ramadan," said Saleh, who is also the Managing Director of Sinar Mas, at the PUPR Ministry office. Senior VP Corporate Communication and General Secretary of the Sinar Mas Land Muslim Foundation Panji Himawan hopes that public access to the Al-Qur'an manuscripts and their translations will be more open. ''So that we can read, understand, and interpret it correctly so that our faith and morals increase,'' he said. The symbolic handover was carried out by Andresca Saleh Husin to the Dharma Wanita Advisor of the PUPR Union, Kartika Basuki Hadimuljono.

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The plan to increase the price of fuel, LPG and electricity rates was conveyed by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM)

Arifin Tasrif in a working meeting at Commission VII DPR, in Jakarta. According to Arifin, the assumption of Indonesia's crude oil price (ICP) in the 2022 state budget is US$63 per barrel, far below the real price which in March 2022 was US$98.4 per barrel. Meanwhile, the contract price of gas (CP Aramco) for LPG is 839.6 US dollars per tonne, an increase from the beginning of the year which was around 569 US dollars per ton. “In the medium term, our strategy is to adjust the price of pertalite, diesel, and accelerate the replacement of fuel. For example, gas fuel or bioethanol. The adjustment of subsidized fuel prices will follow the economic price," said Arifin. For gas fuel, said Arifin, one of the government's medium-term strategies is to increase the retail selling price. He believes that this method can reduce pressure on the state budget. This strategy will also be followed by a direct LPG subsidy scheme to users who are entitled to be subsidized. The government also plans to increase electricity tariffs as a short-term strategy to respond to the impact of rising world oil prices. He confirmed that the plan will be carried out this year. Potential savings in compensation if electricity tariffs are increased by Rp 7 trillion to Rp 16 trillion. Responding to the plan, Deputy Chairperson of Commission VII DPR Eddy Soeparno said that the government needs to detail the plan to increase the price of pertalite, diesel, LPG, and electricity tariffs along with the timing of their realization. Such details are important because they relate to the impact that will be felt by the community and the industrial sector.

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Indonesia's ambition to achieve a net carbon sink for the land and forest sector by 2030 requires the support of various parties.

APRIL Group has a number of real efforts through various sustainable economic strategies. Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL Group) has launched the 'APRIL2030' program in November 2020. Through this program, the Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) business unit makes a commitment to sustainability and contributes positively to climate, nature and community development for the next 10 years. . One of the company's efforts in implementing the program is the commitment to achieve zero net carbon emissions from land use in the next 10 years. The company also targets to be able to reduce the intensity of product carbon emissions by 25%. Sihol Aritonang, President Director of PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP), the operational unit of APRIL Group, said the move was in line with the government's priority to realize a long-term low-carbon strategy. In addition, the company also wants to participate in responding to the global consensus on the importance of the private sector's role in mitigating climate change. According to him, APRIL will carry out a number of strategies to control the company's emissions independently.

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Covid-19 in Indonesia on Wednesday (13/4/2022) increased by 1,551 cases,

an increase compared to the previous day's 1,455 cases. However, compared to Wednesday (6/4/2022) last week with 2,400 cases, there was a significant decrease. This daily addition of cases mainly occurred in Jakarta, which doubled to 699 new cases after a few days earlier it was in the range of 200-300 new cases. Previously, the Spokesperson for the Covid-19 Vaccination of the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said that the weekly Covid-19 confirmed cases in Indonesia had decreased significantly. If the previous week about 3,000 cases, currently around 2,500 cases. Case deaths also decreased by 33 percent compared to the previous week. Likewise, the occupancy rate for hospital care and isolation is 6.67 percent. Meanwhile, the weekly positive rate is 4.6 percent and the daily positive rate is 3 percent or below the World Health Organization (WHO) maximum threshold of 5 percent. know that there is indeed an increase in Covid-19 cases in Java and Bali, or it is still a variation of weekly data that is not impossible to change again. "We need to increase surveillance activities, such as tests, syndromic surveillance, and also genome sequencing in order to obtain more precise data with the conditions in the field," said Tjandra. He also reminded that we must remain vigilant and observe and analyze in depth how cases develop in the days to come.

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The results of the Kompas R&D survey in July showed that 60.7 percent of respondents believed the government would be able to overcome the pandemic.

Only 36.4 percent of respondents are not sure that the government will succeed in controlling Covid-19. Judging from the course of public assessments in the past year, the trend of the confidence figure tends to be sloping down. However, the confidence figure is still positive and still higher than the assessment in October 2020. At that time, the confidence level was only 55.6 percent with the respondents' uncertainty being the same as today. This means that the current level of public confidence is still better. One of the urgent things to do is to optimize the management of communication to the public. The reason is, according to a lecturer in political communication at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN), Gun Gun Heryanto, there is a tendency to decrease the level of public confidence in the government in controlling the pandemic, one of which occurs because the management of public communications is not yet optimal. There is a tendency for the narratives presented by officials to trigger unnecessary debate. A public policy observer from the University of Indonesia, Agus Pambagio, added that now it is also necessary to reform the basic legal aspects in making policies to handle the Covid-19 pandemic. "The name of the policy has changed so that it confuses the public," he said.

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In the midst of international attention regarding the efficacy of the Sinovac vaccine,

the Indonesian government has again brought in Sinovac raw materials. The government has imported 21.2 million doses of Sinovac raw materials. This step is taken by the government as an effort to prepare for the supply of the vaccination program starting next month. In addition to Sinovac, the government also continues to try to import finished corona vaccines from other manufacturers through various means to meet domestic vaccine needs. Not long ago, Indonesia had received 3 million doses of Moderna vaccine from the United States government. "The government ensures the safety, quality and efficacy or efficacy for all types of vaccines obtained," said Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto. This is because Indonesia needs 208 million people who are vaccinated to achieve communal resilience or herd immunity. So far, Indonesia has brought in 122.73 million doses of the corona vaccine in finished form and raw materials.

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