President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Monday (12/6) at the State Palace inaugurated seven members of the Election Organization Ethics Council (DKPP) for the period of 2017-2022. The inauguration was based on Decree of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Number 75/P of 2017 on the Dismissal of Members of the Election Organization Ethics Council […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo during his working visit to Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Saturday (10/6), witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Use of Wiriadinata Air Force Base as a Public Airport. The signing of MoU between the Indonesian Air Force, Ministry of Transportation, and Regional Government of Tasikmalaya which covers […]

Starting his agenda on the second day of his working visit in West Java, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo visited Miftahul Huda Islamic Boarding School at Manonjaya Subdistrict, Tasikmalaya Regency, on Saturday (10/6) morning. The President, who stayed at Santika Hotel Tasikmalaya, arrived at 9.15 a.m. Western Indonesia Time, was welcomed by the General Chairman of […]

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 […]