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Bali officials reproach media for reporting man’s death was due to COVID-19 vaccine
Officials in Bali have reproached media outlets for reporting that the death of a man in Denpasar on Monday was related to his recent COVID-19 vaccination. The officials say the link has yet to be established. “It’s very regrettable that there are many news reports saying that the victim died because of the vaccine, when there is no official explanation from any competent party,” Gede Pramana, Head of the Communications, Informatics and Statistics Agency in Bali, said yesterday.
Pramana said that negative reports regarding vaccinations that are presented without accurate data may increase anxiety among the public.
“So don’t make the connection that someone dying is due to COVID or someone dying a few days after getting the vaccine is due to the vaccine.”
On Monday, a man in his 40s identified as MAM was found dead and alone in the room he rented at a boarding house (kost) in Denpasar. According to the chief of the village where MAM lived, the deceased got his AstraZeneca vaccine shot last Saturday. Bali Health Agency Chief Ketut Suarjaya said MAM had been sick for about a week prior to his death, and had been resting up in his home a lot as he suffered from headaches and cold sweats. He also confirmed that MAM had a history of high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol.
Indonesia recently recalled nearly halfa-million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine for analysis amid concerns of severe side effects and possible links to several deaths. However, the National Commission on Post-Immunization Accidents (Komnas KIPI) said that as of last Friday, there have been no deaths related to any COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia.
“We cannot conclude that [MAM] died because of the vaccine. After getting the vaccine there was an observation and he was fine,” Suarjaya said.
“The results of investigations on suspected deaths due to the Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines showed that they were unrelated to the vaccines, but were due to underlying illnesses,” the commission said in a statement. Those illnesses include heart disease, impaired kidney function, diabetes, and uncontrolled hypertension. (coconuts.co)
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News Compressed A Short Run-Down Of Stuff That Didn't Make It Into a Full Article Beside all that COVID-19 madness and the fact that almost all news are focusing on the development of the pandemic on the island there are still other things going on. A 24-year-old man has been found unconscious on the streets of Denpasar early last week. The man, originally from Labuan Batu, in North Sumatra (not to confuse with Labuan Bajo in Komodo) arrived via ferry at the port of Padang Bai and has planned to continue his trip to the city of Jember in east Java. Due to the lack of funds to pay for any kind of transport he started walking. We couldn't find any more information where he actually started his trip initially but according to the reports he started walking on April 27 somewhere in
Lombok. When he finally arrived in Denpasar he was reportedly walking for around 3 weeks, haven’t eaten since days which finally led to his collapse on Jalan Diponegoro. A staff members from the Denpasar Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Made Sanjaya, confirmed that his agency has taken care of the man and has provided him with medical treatment and with free transport to his destination in Jember. A drinking session involving a 51-year-old man and his father in Bali’s Buleleng regency didn’t end well for both of the man earlier last week. According to the reports
the 51-year-old has been arrested after allegedly killing his 72-year-old father with an iron crowbar. The old man died after suffering from severe injuries on his head along with multiple bruises all over his body and a broken leg. The son is now facing up to 15 years behind bars for for assault that leads to death plus another 5 years for assaulting a family member. We couldn’t find any reports about his motive for this outbreak of violence For the third time since the beginning of this month local news channels have reported the arrest of an Indonesian man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. The man was arrested after the girls mother filed a police report a day after the incident. Earlier this month a civil servant has been arrested for raping a 10-year-old girl while 5 men have been arrested at the beginning of the month after gang raping an 18-year-old girl. The girl filed a police report by herself the next day leading to the arrest of the 5 culprits. All suspect in all cases are facing up to 15 years in jail for their actions. The head of the Bali Office for the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Jamaruli Manihuruk,has announced that his party is set to relocate a number of prisoners from overcrowded penitentiaries to less densely populated ones. “Whenever a prison is overcrowded by a factor of 300% we will then relocate some of the prisoners to other facilities. Generally, prisons in Bali are overcrowded by a factor of 200%,” Manihuruk told the press in a pretty weird statement adding that Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison is currently overcrowded by 500%. The prison was initially designed and build to accommodate 350 prisoners. If Manihuruk’s statement is correct the Kerobokan prison is currently housing 2,100 prisoners. Being jailed is no fun at all but this is simply inhumane. To get the latest pandemic related numbers along with some news daily follow @SanurWeekly on Facebook and get our daily wrap up with all numbers and facts on your timeline.
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Registtration Or Ban Facebook, TikTok, Clubhouse And Other Social Media Platforms Face Possible Ban In Indonesia
Facebook, TikTok, Clubhouse and othe international social media giants may be banned in Indonesia within the next six months if they don’t register with the Indonesian Information and Communications Ministry as an Electronic System Providers (PSE) .
If the ministry's order for them to be legally registered in the country proves to be more than a bluff Indonesia, one of the counties with the largest social media user-base worldwide, is probably facing some sort of revolution should the threatened ban really be enforced. The regulation forcing PSE’s operating in Indonesia to officially register for the sake of cyber security and user protection has been issued on
November 24 last year with the deadline ending on Monday this week. But, due to a delay in the development of the online registration application, this deadline has been extended by another six months starting o, June 2 when the registration application is supposed to be finally launched, the ministry’s Director General of Applications and Information, Samuel A. Pangerapan, stated in a press release on Monday.
stated their intention to register as PSE in Indonesia since the ministry passed the regulation last year and it seems they have simply ignored the new regulation. The whole registration thing is probably more related to taxation and other money related things than to cyber security and user protection as only companies officially registered in the country can be taxed for their income generated in Indonesia.
Not one of the major social media platforms has publicly
We’ll see how that goes at the beginning of next year.
On The Road Again… Soon… Jerinx Set For Release After Supreme Court Rejects Latest Appeals Despite the massive attention I Gede Ari Astina’s, commonly known as Jerinx, court case and his imprisonment have gained at the end of the last and earlier this year it has been relatively quiet around the drummer of Bali’s (and Indonesia’s) Punk band “Superman is Dead” during the last months. The case has now made it to
the headlines again after the Indonesian Supreme Court has rejected the appeals of the public prosecutor to extend Jerinx’s sentence from 10 to 14 months.
guilty of hate speech against the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) by calling them “flunkeys” to the World Health Organization in a viral Instagram post last year, might be released from prison soon.
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pandemic and his call for people to stop wearing masks, it’s good to see that his, completely overrated statement about IDI, has finally not resulted in a longer imprisonment.
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We’re On Track COVID-19 Vaccination Program In Denpasar Expected To Be Completed By July I Dewa Gede Rai told the press that more than 236,000 Denpasar residents have received the first dose of the Covid19 vaccine, while more than 131,000 have have received their second dose According to an official and are considered fully confirmation by the Denpasar vaccinated. Rai added that the City Government around 52% of authorities are expecting the Denpasar’s residents have been vaccination program in vaccinated against COVID-19. Denpasar to be completed by July 2021. The Spokesman of the Denpasar Covid-19 Task Force, But he also admitted that the
number of vaccinated senior citizens, considered as a high risk group, is still low. He urged the city’s elderly not to be afraid and to get vaccinated as soon as possible. “Our medical team will conduct a proper health screening prior to the vaccination and you will be safe,” he added. Rai also revealed that the Denpasar city government is targeting to vaccinate a total of around 450,000 residents across the city and that the
acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccination program is quite high. Generally said the Indonesian COVID-19 vaccination program is not running well which has been officially confirmed by the Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, who recently said that the country is way behind its initial schedule and has not reached even one of the targets set at the beginning of the vaccination program in January this year.
Wanna Buy A Hotel, Pak? Hundreds Of Hotels In Bali Reportedly Up For Sale A research conducted by Coconuts Bali has revealed that hundreds of hotels located on the island are up for sale on an online marketplace called Lamudi, one of Indonesia’s leading real estate platforms. According to Coconuts a quick search revealed that currently more than 600 hotels in Bali are listed for sale on the platform. The listings include popular and
well known hotels like the Kuta Paradiso Hotel on Jalan Kartika Plaza marketed at 875 billion Rupah, the Tijili Benoa in Nusa Dua at 1.8 billion Rupiah (per room), and the Swiss-Belhotel Rainforest on Jalan Sunset Road in Kuta priced at 250 billion Rupiah.
in Bali for sale on Lamudi.co.id. So if you happen to be hunting for a new challenge and to buy a hotel this is probably the best time to check whats available on the market. Many of the listings on Lamudi are only offering a co-ownership by selling single rooms starting from as low as 75 million Rupiah but many others are intended to
We have repeated Coconut’s search and at the time of writing we were able to find 622 hotels 8
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sell the whole premise. Bali’s hotel industry has reported occupancy rates below 10% since the beginning of the pandemic which is probably also related to the widespread and massive oversupply of hotel rooms on the island.
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