Central bank Bank Indonesia (BI) announced that Indonesia’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves at the end of May this year reached US$124.95 billion, higher than that in April at US$123.25 billion. In fact, Indonesia’s forex reserves in May were even higher than the highest amount of forex reserves Indonesia had ever had in August 2011 at […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo encouraged all Indonesian people to stop spreading fake news containing defamation and hatred on social media.“Let us show the values of modesty and decency contained in the culture of Indonesia,” the President said in a press release, released by Press, Media, and Information Bureau of Secretariat of the President, on Thursday […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Wednesday (7/6), at the State Palace, Jakarta, inaugurated activist and intellectual Yudi Latief (53) as the Head of Presidential Working Unit for the Implementation of the State Ideology of Pancasila (UKP-PIP). On that occasion, the President also inaugurated  9 (nine) national figures as the advisors of UKP-PIP. After the inauguration, […]

Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi spoke by phone with Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, and Iran before heading to Jakarta via Doha, on Wednesday (7/6), to discuss the development in the Middle East after several countries cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. “I discussed the issue with several Foreign Ministers of […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo inaugurated 9 (nine) national figures as the Advisors of Presidential Working Unit for the Implementation of the State Ideology Pancasila (UKP PIP) at the State Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (7/6) morning. The nine national figures who were inaugurated under the Decree of the President of the Republic of Indonesia dated 31 May […]

Despite limited time for preparation, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo emphasized that budget use for the 2018 Asian Games and Asian Para Games must be based on the principles of effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, and accountability. “We have to calculate the budget in detail. And I would like to remind you that the budget must be used […]

President Joko “Jokowi’ Widodo considered that a communal fast-breaking among fellow citizens and leaders of state institutions can be used to solve various problems and for silaturahmi (strengthening bonds). “This is good for both strengthening our ukhuwah Islamiyah (Islamic brotherhood) and our ukhuwah Watoniyah (brotherhood of the nation),” President Jokowi told the journalists after attending […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Tuesday (6/6) afternoon, at the Presidential Office, Jakarta, chaired the Limited Meeting on the Evaluation of National Strategic Project Implementation and Priority Programs in the Bangka Belitung Islands Province (Babel). In addition to chairing the meeting, President Jokowi is also scheduled to chair the Limited Meeting on the Evaluation of […]