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View all search resultsLuhut said that construction and refurbishment work for all venues for the summit, including the Apurva Kempinski hotel, where Group of Twenty (G20) leaders would hold their two-day meeting, and the roads connecting the venue and the Ngurah Rai International Airport, have been completed.
Yellen and Luhut also spoke about the potential for a Just Energy Transition Partnership that would bring together funding from donor countries, multilateral development banks, philanthropic groups, and the private sector to speed the decommission of coal-fired power plants, it said.
Tourist spots in most parts of the island will now accept visitors, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Panjaitan told a virtual conference, as long as they adhere to strict protocols, such as proving their vaccination status on a government-verified phone app.
The government has eased provisions for restaurants, shopping malls and some industries to operate with longer hours and higher capacity as the daily COVID-19 reports point to a falling number of cases.
"Jakarta has seen a surge in confirmed COVID-19 cases, especially in family clusters following long holidays in October and November. We need to take extra measures [...] as we would face the real holiday season at the end of this year," Anies said in a statement on Thursday.
Acting transportation minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, who is the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister, sought to have an assessment on the economic impact of such a policy, which might prevent Jakarta residents from going to their hometowns for mudik (exodus), according to the Transportation Ministry’s spokeswoman Ardita Irawati.
Luhut said the UAE government had prepared US$22.8 billion to invest in Indonesia through a sovereign wealth fund together with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the United States International Development Finance Corporation.
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