President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo met with the 3rd President of the Republic of Indonesia Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie and former Vice President Try Sutrisno in a separate meeting held at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Thursday (19/1), discussed a number of issues regarding the nation. Minister of State Secretary Pratikno, who was accompanying President Jokowi during the […]

In a bid to improve effectiveness and efficiency of state administration tasks, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on 30 December 2016 signed a Presidential Regulation Number 116 of 2016 on the Dissolving of National Seed Board; Community Guidance Controlling Board; Council of the Stabilisation of Monetary and Economic Resilience; Steering Committee for the Development of Batam, […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo (Jokowi) on Wednesday (18/1) at the State Palace inaugurated former Defense Ministry’s Inspector General, Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, as the new Air Force Chief of Staff. Hadi replaced retiring Air Chief Marshall Agus Supriatna, whose tenure will end this month. The inauguration of the new Air Force Chief of Staff […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo affirmed that the Government work in 2017 is focused on reducing inequality between regions and overcoming social inequality. In this regard, the President believes that an even distribution of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) can give people access to better public services, and employment opportunities are not only increasing but also […]

The Government committed to carrying out law reform by sorting out regulations considered unnecessary and unimportant. National Intelligence Agency (BIN) has reported that there are 41,000 regulations which are overlapping, unnecessary, as well as contradicting. “Those regulations will be evaluated and restructured so that the unnecessary and unimportant one will be eliminated,” Coordinating Minister for […]

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Wiranto said since its establishment two months ago, the Saber Pungli Illegal Levies Eradication Task Force has received more than 22,000 reports, submitted be it through its website, Short Message Service (SMS) or directly through the Call Center. “We’ve followed up most of those reports, in related […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo asserted that legal reform should not only touch downstream side that related with public services, but also upstream side, i.e. improvement of regulation and procedure aspects. Therefore, the President asked to prioritize regulation restructuring in this time’s legal reform. Yet, the President reminded that Indonesia is a country that upholds the […]

Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said that under Law Number 34 of 2004 on the Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI), TNI serves as a deterrent and enforcement, as well as the restoring of security conditions of the country. “The President gave directive at the Limited Meeting some time ago that the TNI is not just concentrated […]

In order to implement the provisions in Article 15 paragraph (2) of Law Number 18 of 2016 on the State Budget (APBN) for Fiscal Year 2017, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on 30 December 2016 signed a Presidential Regulation Number 123 of 2016 on Technical Guidelines on the Utilization of Physical Special Allocation Fund. Physical Special Allocation […]

With consideration to implement the provisions of Article 27 paragraph (2) of Law Number 37 of 1999 on Foreign Relations, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on 31 December 2016 signed a Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 125 of 2016 on Handling of Refugees from Abroad. Under the Perpres, the handling of refugees is carried out based on […]