President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo received national and international Qori (men Quran reciters) and Qoriah (women Quran reciters), as well as Islamic leaders led by Prof. Dr. KH. Said Agil Husin Al Munawar at the Merdeka Palace, on Monday (12/6). On that occasion, Said Agil delivered two points to the President. “We received the invitation from […]

  On Monday (12/6) afternoon, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung attended a Working Meeting with Commission II of the House of Representatives at Nusantara Building, Senayan, Jakarta. Starting his presentation, the Cabinet Secretary explained that based on the result of the audit of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) over the 2016 Financial Report, the Cabinet Secretariat […]

Shortly after his inauguration, Harjono, one of the newly appointed members of the Election Organization Ethics Council (DKPP) for the period of 2012-2017, said one of the first things to do by the Council to list of works that have been done and those that need follow-up. “We are grateful that the works were previously […]

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 […]