top 10 news 28 January

HaninPost top 10 news
28 January 2016

1. Standard Chartered estimated Indonesia’s economic growth this year will be at the level of 5.2 percent. The growth will be influenced by domestic investment from public infrastructure spending.

2. Indonesian female migrant worker, Casih, was evacuated from Deir ez-Zor city in Syria by Indonesian Embassy. The city currently is besieged by ISIS.

3. President Joko Widodo has called on cabinet ministers to coordinate with the regional governments to handle the former members of the Nusantara Daybreak Movement, locally known as Gerakan Fajar Nusantara or Gafatar.

4. Development of rail track between Jakarta’s Manggarai railway station and Soekarno Hatta airport is expected to be completed in 2017.

5. East Jakarta Police managed to arrest a group of drug dealers that used Go-Jek, an app-based motorcycle taxi (ojek), service in Cakung, East Jakarta.

6. The National Police’s general crimes unit announced on Wednesday (27/1) that they have arrested three men for allegedly selling kidneys in an illegal operation that raked in hundreds of millions of rupiahs, duping more than a dozen victims.

7. Chief Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said the government has issued the ninth economic policy package which covers three sectors, namely, electricity, cattle imports and logistics deregulation.

8. The Indonesian government will establish an institution to assess and issue certify nurses who plan to work abroad. It will help the paramedics improve their quality.

9.Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has a plan to untangle the traffic knot by building an elegant looking flyover system that would circle the clover and allow drivers easier access to the highway,
construction on the flyover begin this April with the goal of having it finished by mid-2017

10. Jakarta Health Agency continued its crackdown on illegally operated medical clinics in the capital yesterday afternoon by raiding a Chiropractic Indonesia clinic in Rukan Permata Senayan, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta. Immigration officers also nabbed two foreigners(australian and new zealand) – thought to be chiropractors at the clinic – for working as medical professionals in Indonesia without a license.