JAKARTA, Jul 27 (NNN-ANTARA) – The Indonesian province of South Sumatra, yesterday received a donation for COVID-19 aid, amounting to two trillion Indonesian rupiahs (about 138 million U.S. dollars) from family members of late local entrepreneur, Akidi Tio.
The donation was symbolically given to the South Sumatra police chief by Hardi Darmawan, a private doctor of the family, at the province’s police headquarters.
The province’s governor, Herman Deru, in the company of other officials and religious leaders in the province, attended the handover ceremony.
Darmawan, who is the president director of Charitas Hospital, in the province’s capital of Palembang, said that, the Tios had helped a number of aged care facilities in the province and those infected by COVID-19.
According to Darmawan, Tio was an entrepreneur originating from the country’s westernmost province of Aceh, before moving to South Sumatra.– NNN-ANTARA
