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Indonesia’s economic stimulus program should also be directed at farmers,  so they can continue to maintain domestic food production, President Joko Widodo advised officials on Tuesday during a limited cabinet meeting on anticipating the nation's staple food requirement, held via video conferencing from the Bogor Presidential Palace. President Jokowi asked officials to continue to maintain food production to cater to domestic needs. Keep on maintaining food production to keep it running normally, and make sure farmers keep producing. Make sure farmers continue to produce by implementing good health protocols and the economic stimulus programs runs in the right direction. In the meantime, the government has raised the budget for COVID-19 mitigation to Rp405.1 trillion in the 2020 fiscal budget. The budget is yet to include the economic recovery program and stimulus for businesses//Ant

The Head of the National Library Muhammad Syarif Bando together with the Inter-Ministry Committee (PAK) held a meeting this Wednesday (29/4/2020) to finalize the Draft Government Regulation (RPP) for the implementation of Law Number 13 of 2018 concerning Handover of Print and Print Works Record (SSKCKR). Syarif hopes that this RPP will soon be completed and endorsed this year. So that it can be directly used by all parties to preserve the nation's culture. The implementation of handover of Print and Record Works in the RPP aims to, manage the KCKR collection as a complete and up-to-date national collection as a benchmark for the progress of the nation's civilization, to realize the KCKR data collection system to provide convenience, availability, and affordability for the community in utilizing the KCKR, increase the awareness of publishers and producers of recorded works about the importance of preserving intellectual and artistic valuable KCKR as the work of the nation's culture through the awarding, increasing the participation of the community in developing literacy culture through the utilization of the handover collection. Preservation is not only a matter of print works but also includes record works. Record works are divided into two forms, namely analog and digital record works. And the recording works consist of audio, visual and audio visual // NK

The National Library (Pepusnas) extends the closure of all onsite services from March 16 to May 13, 2020. This step is as supporting the government's call for Work From Home (WFH) while reducing the spread of the corona virus (Covid-19). The presence of digital services (online) of the National Library is a solution that knowledge can be obtained anywhere. The quality of science can be improved without having to visit the library by using iPusnas. iPusnas is a digital library product based on social media that makes it easy for Indonesians to read. iPusnas provides thousands of books in full text. However, to be able to read it you must first install the iPusnas application via the Appstore or Playstore on a communication device (mobile) or laptop. Once installed, 50,438 titles or 591,739 books of various titles can be read and stored up to the specified time limit. Head of the National Library of Indonesia Muhammad Syarif Bando said that currently the National Library is no longer talking about the quantity of visit numbers. But already talking about speed and ease of access. Digitalisation, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and big data are a necessity in the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. And, library institutions must adapt quickly and guarantee that every citizen has access to knowledge openly. For people who are not yet members of the National Library, but want to access the collection digitally, can register online through the page www.perpusnas.go.id //rilisNK

More than four million students in Syria confined at home due to the coronavirus will not resume classes this year but will advance to the next grade, the government said Sunday. The decision was taken weeks after schools were closed in mid-March to combat the spread of the virus, leaving many students and teachers to adapt to distance learning. The government will increase the number of exam centers to ensure "distance" between students, media SANA reported.  After schools were shuttered, some institutions moved to online teaching, while a specialized education ministry TV channel broadcast Arabic, English, mathematics, and science courses. But daily power cuts that can last for hours and cap, costly household internet have posed challenges to distance learning efforts in the country wracked by war since 2011. Universities will remain closed at least through the end of the holy month of Ramadan in late May, according to SANA//JP