ASEANEWS HEADLINES: INDONESIA POLITICS: JAKARTA, Indonesia- PDI-P expands political, ideological sway through strategic institutions

December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 Editor 0 Comment ASEANEWS HEADLINES: INDONESIA POLITICS: JAKARTA Indonesia- PDI-P expands political, ideological sway through strategic institutions

Megawati Soekarnoputri, the matriarch of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), speaks in her capacity as the head of the Pancasila Ideology Development Board (BPIP) during a high-level lecture on Dec. 3, 2019 at the State Palace in Jakarta.(Antara/Puspa Perwitasari) Sun, December 12, 2021 / Yerica Lai (The Jakarta Post)

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is continuing to take over key positions at state institutions in a development likely to further consolidate its power in maintaining the status quo and its political future afloat.

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Latest official COVID-19 data close x Confirmed 4,258,752 Deaths 143,923 Recovered 4,109,675 Source: Indonesian government Last Update: Dec 10, 2021

Those vaccinated thus far comprise the following:

Adults aged 18 and above – 10,117,796 people or 101.18 percent
Adolescents aged 12 to 18 – 1,807,261 people or 98.90 percent
Children aged 06 to 12 – 1,988,677 people or 104.81 percent
5 years old – 286, 428 – people or 04.12 percent.

Total vaccination percentage is at 88.75 percent or 14,198,162 people. Of this, 13,546,214 have been fully vaccinated.

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ASEAN Covid-19 Table – 13 December 2021

Khmer Times

Asean as a whole has reported more than 14.3 million COVID-19 cases. Of this, more than 540,000 are active cases as of December 13.

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 219 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.

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CAMBODIA

Cambodia’s daily new COVID cases drop to pre February 20th incident levels

COVID-19 TOTALS:

Khmer Times

TOTAL CASES: 120,355 (+12)
DEATHS: 2,985 (+3)
ACTIVE: 655 (-4)
COMMUNITY: 100,503 (+11)
IMPORTED: 19,852 (+1)
RECOVERED: 116,708 (+13)

As COVID cases continue to rise – and the Omicron variant spreads – in Cambodia’s ASEAN neighbours, The Kingdom continued its incredible run of 73 days of ‘new normal’ low case numbers – recording another record low daily new COVID case figure (diagnosed by PCR test)

Today’s official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) was 12, bringing the COVID case total to 120,355 cases.

Major fears have been raised over Omicron – a new variant of COVID-19, which is reported to be highly transmissible, has a higher reinfection rate and has affected over 40 countries – including Cambodia’s direct neighbour Thailand,Singapore as well as in America, Asia, Europe and Australia.

FILE – This March 29, 2018, file photo shows the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York’s Times Square. Facebooks parent company Meta announced Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, that it has expanded its ban on postings linked to Myanmars military to include all pages, groups, and accounts representing military-controlled businesses. It had already banned advertising from such businesses in February. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) /

December 9, 2021

BANGKOK (AFP) – Facebook parent Meta will ban all pages and accounts belonging to Myanmar military-backed businesses, it said, expanding its restraints on the country’s armed forces.

Myanmar’s secretive military has extensive business interests, with tentacles in industries as diverse as transportation, textiles, tourism and banking. Activists and rights groups said they funded crackdowns and abuses even before the February coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi and launched a bloody crackdown on dissent.

In late February Facebook removed all accounts linked to the military, also known as the Tatmadaw, citing the junta’s use of deadly force against anti-coup demonstrators. It also banned military-linked firms from advertising on its platforms.

Meta “will now also remove Pages, Groups and Accounts representing military-controlled businesses”, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

The decision was “based on extensive documentation by the international community of these businesses’ direct role in funding the Tatmadaw’s ongoing violence and human rights abuses in Myanmar”, it said, adding it would use the report from a 2019 United Nations (UN) fact-finding mission into the military’s economic interests “as the basis” for its actions.

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Today’s paper: December 13, 2021

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SINGAPORE:

Flight cancellation rates dip as travellers’ fears about Covid-19 variant Omicron ease

Experts expect most travellers to proceed with their plans for the traditional year-end holiday season despite the additional inconvenience and uncertainty.ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

Toh Ting Wei

SINGAPORE – Travellers seem less spooked now by Omicron, with fewer of them cancelling their flights compared with when the Covid-19 variant first emerged.

The cancellation rate for flight bookings into Singapore has fallen to 41 per cent as at Wednesday (Dec 8), after peaking at 58 per cent on Dec 2, air travel analytics firm ForwardKeys told The Straits Times.

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Total cases:2,145,241
Recovered:2,055,265
New cases:+4,000
Deaths:20,964
Rank:24

Man dies after Moderna jab following Sinovac

WRITER: SUTTHIWIT CHAYUTWORAKAN

Emergency medical staff from Paolo Hospital Samutprakarn perform CPR on a man who developed chest pains, fell unconscious and died after receiving a second dose of Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday. (Photo: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)

SAMUT PRAKAN: A man died at his home in Muang district late on Tuesday night shortly after receiving a second dose of Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna, following an initial dose of Sinovac in September.

Police were called to house 66/189 at Moo 5, tambon Bang Muang in Muang district about 12.30am, Pol Capt Adithes Phocharoen, a duty investigator, said on Wednesday.

They found Sithipol Bovornkittipaisal, 26, lying dead on the ground floor of the house. There was no sign of physical assault.

Sithipol’s mother Sopa Khotpakdi, 50, said her son had recieved the first dose of Sinovac vaccine in early September, but did not say where.

He had also placed an order for Moderna vaccine with Synphaet Theparak Hospital. He went to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon and was inoculated with the Moderna vaccine.

He returned home with no sign of side effects, she said.

However, late on Tuesday night, while playing on his phone on the second floor of the house, Sithipol began experiencing chest pain and breathing difficulties.

Ms Sopa said she called for an emergency team from Paolo Hospital Samutprakarn. While waiting, relatives carried Sithipol, who was by then unconscious, down to the ground floor.