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REPUBLIKA, JAKARTA - The first vaccine ordered by the Indonesian government from

China arrived in Indonesia on Sunday (6/12), at 21.23 WIB.  The vaccine made by Sinovac
was brought from China using the Garuda Indonesia plane GIA 810 777-300ER.

"I would like to convey good news, the government has received 1.2 million doses of the
Covid-19 vaccine made by Sinovac, which we have been clinical testing in Bandung since
August 2020," said President Joko Widodo regarding the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine in a
Youtube broadcast.
Jokowi said that the government is still working on 1.8 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine
which will arrive in early January 2021. Jokowi continued, in addition to the finished
vaccine, this December will also arrive at 15 million doses of vaccine.  In addition, in January
2021, there will also be 30 million doses of vaccine in the form of bulk raw materials which
will be further processed by Bio Farma.

"We are very grateful. Alhamdulillah, the vaccine is available, meaning we can immediately
prevent the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak," said Jokowi. The Sinovac vaccine is one of the
six vaccines that have been ordered by the Government.  The government has also tested this
vaccine on several volunteers.

Based on the letter number HK.01.07 / Menkes / 9860/2020 dated December 3, 2020,
regarding the determination of the type of vaccine for Covid-19 vaccination, specifies several
types of vaccines to be used as vaccinations.  The six types are produced by PT Bio Farma,
AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Moderna, Pfizer Inc and Biontech and Sinovac Biotech Ltd.

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Jakarta Post : Globally, everything has stopped. Projects have been delayed, workplaces
closed and schools shut down. The world seems to have ground to a halt because of the novel
coronavirus.
However, students continue their education through online learning and via video calls with
their teachers, especially in big cities such as Jakarta. The model is currently the best
alternative as keeping schools open poses a safety risk for students.
Globally, many countries have adopted this approach. Schools in New York, the United
States, prepared for online learning by distributing gadgets to their students, ensuring they
had access to learning materials. As of early April, education authorities distributed around
500,000 laptops and tablets to their students, allowing them to participate in classes online.
When the first two COVID-19 cases were announced in Indonesia in early March, the
country was in a panic. On March 14, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced that all
schools in Jakarta were to be closed. However, many schools were not ready to apply home
learning programs yet. The online classes implemented in Indonesia work differently from
those in the US. This is due to a lack of preparation in this country.
As a student participating in the home-learning program, online school was confusing to
adjust to as we had not been prepared through simulations or practices beforehand. Students
reported the home-learning program to be even more stressful than regular classrooms. Some
of the common reasons for this went along the lines of: "Normal classes may have been
difficult, but having friends makes it so much more manageable and less stressful. Online
classes take out the benefits of having friends to socialize with and being stuck alone with
nothing but assignments."
Many students participating in home-learning programs also say that the workload of online
classes is larger than that of regular classes. The general consensus is that home-learning
programs — although highly beneficial and a good alternative to school as schools are closed
— still require some getting used to by students, as it is a novel concept and not many are
experienced with them.
However, although the closing of schools does have a silver lining (home-learning programs
where students are still able to learn), the true sufferers of the government order of school
closings are the students in less fortunate situations and the students who are in schools that
are not well-funded.
This is because those students lack the devices and internet access to be able to participate in
online classes, and the schools do not have the capacity to teach online. Unlike in New York
where devices are distributed to students by schools and private companies, in Indonesia,
there is yet to be this kind of effort.

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Times : Is it possible to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease simply by looking at
writing patterns years before there are symptoms?
According to a new study by IBM researchers, the answer is yes.
And, they and others say that Alzheimer’s is just the beginning. People with a wide variety of
neurological illnesses have distinctive language patterns that, investigators suspect, may serve
as early warning signs of their diseases.
For the Alzheimer’s study, the researchers looked at a group of 80 men and women in their
80s — half had Alzheimer’s and the others did not. But, seven and a half years earlier, all had
been cognitively normal.
The men and women were participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a long-running
federal research effort that requires regular physical and cognitive tests. As part of it, they
took a writing test before any of them had developed Alzheimer’s that asks subjects to
describe a drawing of a boy standing on an unsteady stool and reaching for a cookie jar on a
high shelf while a woman, her back to him, is oblivious to an overflowing sink.
The researchers examined the subjects’ word usage with an artificial intelligence program
that looked for subtle differences in language. It identified one group of subjects who were
more repetitive in their word usage at that earlier time when all of them were cognitively
normal. These subjects also made errors, such as spelling words wrongly or inappropriately
capitalizing them, and they used telegraphic language, meaning language that has a simple
grammatical structure and is missing subjects and words like “the,” “is” and “are.”

The members of that group turned out to be the people who developed Alzheimer’s disease.

The A.I. program predicted, with 75 percent accuracy, who would get Alzheimer’s
disease, according to results published recently in The Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine.

“We had no prior assumption that word usage would show anything,” said Ajay Royyuru,
vice president of health care and life sciences research at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where the A.I. analysis was done.

Alzheimer’s researchers were intrigued, saying that when there are ways to slow or stop the
illness — a goal that so far remains elusive — it will be important to have simple tests that
can warn, early on, that without intervention a person will develop the progressive brain
disease.