In the past 4 years, the Indonesian Government has made major changes in the ease of doing business in Indonesia, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. He added that the purpose of those changes is to ensure that Indonesia’s economy can be more productive and competitive, to promote self-reliance to produce more values for the […]

Cabinet Secretariat has been awarded an Unqualified Opinion (WTP) audit grade for five times in a row from the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). The award for Cabinet Secretariat was directly conferred by Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati to Deputy to Cabinet Secretary for Administration Affairs Farid Utomo at the 2018 Government Accounting and Financial Reporting Meeting […]

Considering that candidates for President and Vice President require professional security and safeguarding, from the determination to the stipulation of selected Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates by the General Election Commission (KPU), President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, on 19 September 2018, has signed Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 85 of 2018 on Security and Safeguarding of Presidential […]

Following the success of distributing 1,9 million hectares of deserted land year, the Government has set the target of redistributing 3 million hectares of land to the people through social forestry activities. “We have decided to set the target at 3 million hectares. This is a huge number,” President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in his […]

The Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) have formally declared Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin and Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno as presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2019 election. “The result of the KPU’s plenary meeting has officially declared that the two candidate pairs are eligible as Presidential and Vice President Election candidates in the 2019 Presidential Election,” KPU […]

With consideration to implement the provisions of Article 73 paragraph (2) of Government Regulation Number 29 of 2018 on Industrial Empowerment, on 17 September 2018, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has signed Presidential Decree (Keppres) Number 24 of 2018 on National Team for Increased Use of Domestic Products, hereinafter referred to as P3DN National Team. The […]

Altough Typhoon Mangkhut has moved away from the Indonesian territory since several days ago, the super typhoon has impacted weather in Indonesia as it is indicated by an attenuation of air mass movement from Australia to Indonesia, according to Deputy for Metereology Division of the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency (BMKG) Mulyono R. Prabowo. “We […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo asserted that he signed a Presidential Regulation that allows the use of regional tobacco excise duty to help address the deficit suffered by the Healthcare Security Provider Body (BPJS Kesehatan) because it is mandated by the Law. “Yes, it has already been issued. The Law has mandated that 50 percent of […]

Newly -inaugurated West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Governor Zulkieflimansyah and Deputy Governor Sitti Rohmi Djalilah have stressed that their administration will give a top priority for post-quake reconstruction and rehabilitation measures in quake-hit Lombok and ensures that the measures will be implemented in a proper and smooth manner. “We will immediately coordinate and discuss the issue […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo asks the new West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Governor and Deputy Governor, Zulkieflimansyah and Sitti Rohmi Djalilah who have just been inaugurated at the Merdeka Palace, in Jakarta, to start their works immediately. “There are a lot of problems that should be handled, such as rehabilitation and reconstruction of the quake-affected victims’ […]