Indonesia's coffee export business continues to be in the doldrums, with refugees in the country demonstrating by the Taliban.

Emergency use of vaccines authorized

Indonesia has approved Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use, according to a statement on the website of Indonesia's National Agency of Drug and Food Control on Aug. 25.

"On Tuesday, August 24, Indonesia's Food and Drug Administration approved another new crown vaccine, Sputnik V," the statement read.

Penny Lukito, the agency's director, noted that drugs had been thoroughly reviewed. She also said the satellite V vaccine was 91.6 percent effective.

(Photographed by Reuters reporter Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said Indonesia was the 70th country to ratify Satellite V. The total number of countries that have approved Russian vaccines is 4 billion, accounting for 50% of the world's population.

Indonesian authorities have previously approved the use of new crown vaccines produced by Kexing, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer.

Afghan refugee demonstrations

According to a Reuters report on August 24, hundreds of Afghan refugees held protests on the streets of Indonesia to oppose their cumbersome and lengthy resettlement process. Many refugees from Afghanistan have been living in Indonesia for years, most of them belonging to the Hazara ethnic minority, which has long been persecuted by the Taliban.

Refugees say repatriation is impossible with the Taliban returning and they urgently need a new home.

(Photo by Willy Kurniawan, Reuters)

On August 24, hundreds of people gathered outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Jakarta, demanding that staff speed up their cases, despite emergency restrictions on public activities imposed by the Indonesian local government since early July due to the outbreak.

Export trade continues to slump

According to a Reuters report on Aug.19, Indonesia's new crown epidemic is severe, hampering business activities.

Indonesia became the center of the Asian New Crown virus outbreak in July, Lianhe Zaobao reported on August 10 that the Indonesian government repeatedly extended restrictions and most stimulus aid was not in place, leaving tens of millions of small companies at risk of bankruptcy as the backbone of Indonesia's economy.

According to the Indonesian Association of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises, the epidemic has caused more than 30 million small, medium and micro enterprises to close down, most of them from agriculture, fisheries and trade.

More than 4 million confirmed cases in Indonesia

Indonesia added 19106 confirmed cases of the new crown compared with the previous day, with a cumulative total of 4008166 confirmed cases, 1038 new deaths and 128252 cumulative deaths, according to data released by Indonesia's National Disaster Relief Agency on August 24.

(Photographed by Reuters reporter Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)

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