Humanities yesterday: Daycare supervision to three things to face disruption
Jakarta (ANTARA) - A number of humanities news items from Sunday that attracted significant reader attention and are still worth reading this morning, ranging from the need for regular supervision of daycares to three key elements for facing global disruption.
These news items can be revisited in the following summary.
- Mendiktisaintek highlights three important elements to face global disruption
The Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Mendiktisaintek) Brian Yuliarto emphasised that strengthening science and technology, cross-sector synergy, and international collaboration are essential elements in addressing increasingly complex global disruptions.
In a statement in Jakarta on Sunday, Minister Brian highlighted that the world today faces global dynamics full of uncertainty that directly impact sectors such as trade, imports, energy, and supply chains.
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- Prospective Hajj pilgrims from NTB flock to Saudi riyal exchange counters
Prospective Hajj pilgrims from the Lombok Embarkation in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) crowded the currency exchange stalls located inside the Mataram City Hajj Dormitory before departing for Saudi Arabia.
ANTARA NTB observations at the NTB Hajj Dormitory on Saturday showed pilgrims arriving in droves to exchange rupiah for Saudi riyals. The currency exchange activity was bustling from the morning. Pilgrims took advantage of the services available in the Hajj Dormitory area for convenience and to avoid difficulties once in Saudi Arabia.
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- BGN: Toddler’s death in Cianjur not due to MBG programme
Deputy Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) for Public Communication and Investigation, Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, affirmed that reports of the death of a toddler named M Abdul Bais in Cianjur, West Java, due to the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme are untrue.
“It is not true that the two-year-old baby in Cianjur died because of the MBG programme,” she said in Jakarta on Sunday.
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- Students explain ways to keep personal data safe in the AI era
Several master’s students from the Postgraduate Programme in Informatics Engineering at Pamulang University (Unpam) in South Tangerang, Banten, conducted outreach on data security for students in the artificial intelligence (AI) era as an effort to prevent digital crimes.
Unpam master’s student I Made Mustika Kerta Astawa in Tangerang on Sunday said that efforts to maintain data security that students can undertake include creating and regularly changing passwords. This aims to ensure that personal identities cannot be discovered.
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- BPKN urges local governments to regularly supervise daycares
The National Consumer Protection Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (BPKN RI) has called on local governments to conduct regular supervision of child care institutions (daycares) operating in their areas.
This request was specifically conveyed to the Special Region of Yogyakarta Provincial Government through the Yogyakarta City Women’s Empowerment, Child Protection, Population Control, and Family Planning Agency (P3AP2KB), following a child abuse case at a daycare.
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