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Last weekend, it was revealed that the spike of active Covid-19 cases in Indonesia over the last six days had entered a very high phase. The number of active Covid-19 cases was found to have increased by 22,350. On June 18, 2021, the average number of active cases in Indonesia even reached 6.87 per cent, while the world was only at 6.5 per cent.

In addition to Indonesia, the spread of the Corona virus has also increased sharply globally. Deaths from the coronavirus, both old and new variants worldwide, crossed the 4-million mark on Thursday (17/6), amid high efforts by countries to provide Covid-19 vaccines to their populations. Based on Reuters records, it took more than a year to touch the first 2 million deaths from Covid-19. However, aadditional 2 million deaths were recorded in just 166 days. The top five countries with the highest total number of deaths from Covid-19 are the United States, Brazil, India, Russia and Mexico. These five countries represent about 50% of all deaths worldwide.

The fact or description of the global distribution of Covid-19 is still far from the expected improvement. Indonesia is one of the countries, which is struggling to improve this condition. The total lockdown option has not yet been implemented in Indonesia. However, the Large-Scale Social Restrictions and tightened Community Activity Restrictions have been enforced. Meanwhile, the provision of vaccines continues to be increased throughout the country. These efforts must, of course, be accompanied by consistent enforcement of strict health protocols, a healthy way of life, and other supporting factors in a long term.

Indonesian Industry Ministry is committed to realizing independence in the health sector. The strategic moves will include the 35% import substitution policy by  2022. This policy was supported by the National Product Use Increase (P3DN) program. Minister of Industry, Agus Gumiwang in a press conference about the Health Equipment National Product Use on Tuesday (15/6) said that his side had encouraged the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries in Indonesia to increase their productivity.

To strengthen the domestic industry while reducing import dependence, Minister Agus stated that he also encourages the optimization of local content rate (TKDN); namely by changing the local content rate calculation in each sector. Take for instance, the pharmaceutical sector which previously used to be a cost-based method has been replaced with a process-based one. After the change, the local content rate rose by 15 percent.

For medical equipment, the Industry Ministry will adjust the local content rate calculation. Currently, its local content rate is still cost-based, including the working equipment, working capital, and manpower. It will be adjusted with full costing, a combination among the bases of cost, design, logistics, and research as well as development.

Meanwhile, in the Industry Ministry Strategic Plan of 2020-2024, the average local content rate target by 2024 was set on 53 percent from the 2020 baseline with 49 percent. The target increase is set at around 2 percent year on year.

Minister Agus Gumiwang added there are 79 domestic health equipment priority products to be used in the National Budget on health equipment. Some of the products' local content rates have surpassed 40 percent; namely these domestic products are obligatory for purchase while the import product is banned. These products include nasal oxygen cannula, medical lighting, syringe, emergency trolley, medical table and chair, surgery table, orthopedic implant, surgery instruments, urine bag, and general purpose disinfectant.

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno visited the Denai Lama Tourism Village in Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra Wednesday (9/6) for the "Socialization of the 2021 Indonesian Tourism Village Award".  The series of socialization events for the 2021 Indonesian Tourism Village Award has started from May 22 until June 25, 2021. The Denai Lama tourism village is chosen to prosper the local community in the new tourism era. Moreover, this village is also well known for its traditional and cultural literacy. Therefore, this edition of Indonesian Wonder for today will introduce you to Denai Lama Tourism Village.

To travel to the tourism village of Denai Lama, you will see views of the green expanse of rice fields. There are various tourism attractions that can be enjoyed. You can take selfies in various instagrammable photo spots. Besides, you can also visit the Paloh Naga Tourism Market, a center for the production of snacks and typical souvenirs of the Denai Lama Village. The market has a characteristic in every buying and selling transaction namely by using barter. This market is open every Saturday and Sunday. The traders are women in Denai Lama. They sell satay, grilled rice, traditional snacks and various types of coffee. The payment method is also unique, namely by using ‘Uang Kepeng’ which is made of wood and each chip is worth Rp. 2,000.

The Denai Lama Tourism Village is famous for its traditional cultural literacy such as Javanese, Malay, and Batak cultures. Furthermore, it also produces various handicrafts, such as woven typical cloth of Denai Lama Village, Jumputan Batik cloth, and Crafts from coconut shells. The Denai Lama Tourism Village is also developing in the utilization of village potential like the construction of a circle studio that has a reading cafe which also functions as a reading park and one of the benefits is for developing the character of its Community Resources. This reading café is managed by teenagers of the  Denai Lama village.

Aviation analytics firm, Cirium announced the 10 most punctual airlines in Asia Pacific in May 2021. According to Cirium's official statement, Thursday (10/6/2021), the results were divided into two categories, namely mainline and network. Mainline is a flight system operated by major airlines and does not include airline partners. Meanwhile, Network is a flight system operated by major airlines, including flights marketed by airlines but operated by separate airline partners. Garuda Indonesia, Indonesia's national airline, won awards in both categories. Previously, various international best awards have been achieved by Garuda, including the world's best cabin crew for five consecutive years and Top 10 of The World's Best Airline 2018.

At the Asia Pacific level, Cirium placed Garuda in 4th position. In the Mainline category, the airline Japan Airlines (JAL) was ranked first with the percentage of on-time arrivals of 95.19 percent. The second place is All Nippon Airways (ANA). Meanwhile, the airline from New Zealand, Air New Zealand, is in third place with a percentage of 89.59 percent. The airline also serves the most total flights on the list, reaching 12,570 flights. Furthermore, the airline Garuda Indonesia became the only representative of Indonesia in the top 10 list.

The percentage of Garuda Indonesia's on-time arrival is 87.98 percent. The total flights are 3,916 flights. The total flights are 3,916 flights. The average delay time for Garuda Indonesia is the same as for Air New Zealand, which is 28 minutes. When compared to the mainline category, the changes in the Network category are not too much. In the Network category, ANA took the top spot. Meanwhile, JAL dropped to second place with a percentage of 93.90 percent and an average delay time of 29 minutes. Interestingly, Garuda Indonesia remained in fourth position with a percentage of on time arrivals of 87.98 percent. The average delay time is also the same, which is 28 minutes. For more than a decade, Cirium has regularly issued reports on the punctuality of airlines and airports. However, the report was temporarily suspended at the beginning of 2020 in early 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic which also paralyzed the aviation sector.