VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The Covid-19 Task Force updated new cases addition on Wednesday by 4,538 cases, making the total cases in Indonesia 315,714.

Meanwhile, recovered patients on Wednesday is 3,854, making the total of recovered cases 240,291.

New death cases increased by 98 deaths, bringing the total to 11,472 people died.

Meanwhile, the number of suspects recorded to date is 142,213 cases. (RRI)

Indonesia's export to China from January to August 2020 has increased. The Indonesian Ambassador to China and Mongolia, Djauhari Oratmangun, said that according to data released by the Chinese Customs, the volume of trade between Indonesia and China in January to August 2020 period reached $48.7 billion. 

Based on this trade volume, the total value of Indonesia's exports to China reached $23.3 billion, growing by 6.4% compared to the total export value of the previous year in the same period.

Meanwhile, the value of Indonesia's imports from China in that period reached USD 25.4 billion. Decreased by 11.8% compared to the previous year in the same period.

"Indonesia's trade deficit from China in this period reached 2 billion US dollars. Last year for the January to August 2020 period, we had a deficit of 6.6 billion US dollars, so there was a very significant decrease in deficit, up to 69.2%, if this trend continues, it is expected that by the end of the year the deficit will decrease substantially compared to last year,” Djauhari said in a written statement on Wednesday.

Some of Indonesia's superior and potential products during this period recorded a significant increase in export value, including:
Iron and Steel (HS 72), an increase of 134.3%;
Copper (HS 74) increased by 88.5%;
Footwear (HS 64) increased by 31.9%;
Paper and Paperboard (HS 48) increased 118.7%;
Fishery products (HS 03) increased by 16.2%;
Rubber (HS 40) increased by 25.8%;
Plastics (HS 39) increased by 20.4%;
Tin (HS 80) increased by 1163.6%;
Aluminum (HS 76) increased by 4124.1%;
Inorganic chemicals (HS28) increased 63.1%;
Tropical fruits (HS 08) increased by 72.8%;
Coffee, tea and spices (HS 09) increased by 280.8%.
Textile products (HS 63) increased by 3296.3%;
Special Fabric Products (HS 56) increased by 54.2%;
Essential Oil Products, cosmetics and others (HS 33) increased by 25.3%;
Drinking products, alcoholic liquids and vinegar (HS 22) increased by 166.4%;
Ceramic products (HS 69) increased by 24.7%;
Sugar and Sugar Products (HS 17) increased by 374.6%;
Glass and Glass Products (HS 70) increased by 33.6%;
Pharmaceutical products (HS 30) increased by 24.8%;
Swallow's Nest (HS 0410) increased by 90.3%, etc.

Djauhari said that Chinese investment in Indonesia from January to July 2020 reached $2.4 billion, an increase of 9 percent compared to the same period in 2019, and making China is the second-largest investor in Indonesia.

If combined with the investment from Hong Kong worth $1.7 billion, China plus Hong Kong are the largest investors in Indonesia in the first quarter period.

China's Investment Realization data to Indonesia for the January to August 2020 will be published at the end of October. Djauhari said that hopefully, Indonesia's exports to China will improve by taking advantage of the e-commerce platform that is increasingly popular during the Covid-19 pandemic. (RRI)

The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 recorded a decrease in cases in 6 of the 10 provinces with the highest cumulative cases in the past week, namely Jakarta, North Sumatra, West Java, East Java, South Kalimantan, and South Sulawesi.

"Of the 10 provinces, there are still some provinces with increasing cases, while 6 others experienced a decline," the Head of Data and Information Technology for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Dr. Dewi Nur Aisyah said at a press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday.

She said in Jakarta, the trend of COVID-19 cases in a week had decreased by minus 0.8 percent. For this reason, the COVID-19 Task Force encourages the decline to be much higher in the following weeks.

Based on the data, a very significant increase in cases of Jakarta occurred in early September. However, in the last week, the trend has declined slightly.

Next, North Sumatra last week also saw a decrease in cases by 3.9 percent, compared to the previous week, with 50 percent of cases in Medan City.

West Java recorded a decline of 28.5 percent in the past week, in contrast to two weeks ago when the increase in cases was very high.

East Java also decreased by minus 8 percent, South Kalimantan by minus 8.1 percent, and South Sulawesi, which also recorded a significant decrease of 30.1 percent.

Meanwhile, 4 out of 10 other provinces with the highest cumulative cases in Indonesia in the past week experienced an upward trend, including Central Java, Papua, Bali, and Aceh.

Central Java Province increased 1.3 percent, Papua 2.4 percent, Bali 6.3 percent, and Aceh recorded a significant upward trend of 12.2 percent. (Antaranews)

Indonesian Motor Association provincial board (IMI) of Southeast Sulawesi built an international motor racing circuit, located in the Nanga-Nanga area, Kendari city.

The location of the international motor racing circuit, which will spend a budget of tens of billions, has a track length of two kilometers and has received approval from the Central IMI Executive Board (PB) in Jakarta.

The head of the IMI Southeast Sulawesi Province, Anton Timbang, to RRI Kendari on Tuesday (Oct 6) said that the circuit is built multifunctional so that lovers of motorbike racing can compete for their achievements with various types of competitions.

Meanwhile, the general chairman of the Southeast Sulawesi KONI, Agista Ariyani Bombay, said that the construction of sports facilities and infrastructure is a commitment to raise the spirit of achieving sports achievements.

It is hoped that the construction of an international motor racing circuit in the city of Kendari can spur the enthusiasm of motorbike racing athletes, who have been showing achievements at the national level. (RRI)