President observes journalists receive COVID-19 vaccination at GBK 25th February 2021
Screenshot - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) observed the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine to journalists at the Senayan Basket Hall at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Stadium in Jakarta on Thursday. (ANTARA/Youtube Sekretariat Presiden)
As I have pledged during the commemoration of National Press Day, we want to prioritize journalists to get vaccinated. Alhamdulillah (thank God), the vaccination of 5,500 journalists has begun and run smoothly. We hope (the vaccination) will protect Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) bore witness to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine to journalists at the Senayan Basket Hall at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Stadium in Jakarta on Thursday.
Vaccinating teachers strategic effort to expedite classroom learning 24th February 2021
Chairman of the Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) Prof. Unifah Rosyidi. (FOTO ANTARA/HO-dok pri) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) Chairman Prof. Unifah Rosyidi expressed belief that the teacher vaccination program had become a strategic effort to fast-track face-to-face learning. We warmly welcome this teacher vaccination program, as it is a strategic effort to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19, and this is an effort to accelerate face-to-face learning and teaching safely and comfortably, Rosyidi remarked when contacted in Jakarta, Wednesday.
The PGRI chairman noted that the initial stage of vaccination for educators and education personnel aims to cover 650 teachers and lecturers, non-formal and informal educators, and several education activists.
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) bore witness to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine to teachers at the state senior high school building SMA Negeri 70 .
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is optimistic of normalcy being restored in face-to-face learning during the second semester of 2021.
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Jakarta, Indonesia – The coronavirus pandemic has forced hundreds of millions of children across the world to either adopt learning from home or drop out of school altogether, as the disease exacerbates sharp divides between the rich and poor.
In Indonesia, the lives of some 68 million young people – from pre-schoolers to higher education students – have been affected by COVID-19 over the last year, according to the Jakarta office of UNICEF.
Many Indonesians have found it difficult to participate in online learning due to unequal access to technology and Internet connectivity.
Jakarta-based newspaper journalist Agnes Theodora, 29, who together with 12 other reporters, has given more than 400 used smartphones and data packages from donors to hundreds of underprivileged families in Indonesia, found there was “an extraordinary digital inequality and divide” when the group began distributing mobile phones to students across the world’s largest archipelago in August last ye