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The State Palace vowed compliance with health protocol on Tuesday after President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and several ministers faced criticism on social media for not wearing masks in photographs taken during a Cabinet meeting on Monday.
“We should put the brakes on spending overseas. Buy, shop and get our own products, so it can trigger the economy and spur our growth,” the President said in a limited Cabinet meeting at the State Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday.
In a video uploaded to the Presidential Secretariat’s official YouTube channel on Sunday, apparently taken during a Cabinet meeting on June 18, the President lambasted ministers for taking the COVID-19 situation too lightly.
A day after his fiancée gave birth, Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a meeting of his top ministers on Thursday to discuss how to ease Britain's lockdown amid a backdrop of rising deaths and questions over the government's response to the COVID-19 crisis.
President Jokowi issued a regulation in 2016 that pledged to lower gas prices to $6 per MMBtu. The pledge was meant to boost the growth of seven gas-reliant industrial sectors namely electricity production, chemicals, food, ceramics, steel, fertilizers and glass manufacturing, which collectively consume about 80 percent of Indonesia’s gas supply.
