The meeting between President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has affirmed the commitment to complete the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) by the end of 2017. “Both leaders have mentioned that they  have had seven rounds of negotiation. They continue to push the negotiation to be completed by the end […]

At Session I of Leader’s Retreat of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, Friday (7/7) afternoon local time, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo also explained about the success of Indonesa in handling terrorism issues through deradicalization program. With this program, the President said that only 3 out of 560 ex-terrorists, or only 0.53 percent, still have […]

“Now, President Erdo?an and I want to extend our message to all of you,” President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo said starting his video blog (vlog) uploaded on Friday afternoon, 7 July 2017. President Jokowi is one of world leaders who is active to sent messages through social media, particularly through a vlog in his personal YouTube […]

Starting his working visit to Germany, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, at Hotel Steigenberger where he stays while in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday (7/7) morning at around 08:00am local time or at 01:00pm Western Indonesian Time. The agenda is then followed by a […]

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the Government’s debt ratio deficit against the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is currently still below 30 percent and the deficit of State Budget (APBN) at around 2.5 percent. According to her, the figure is still far lower than that of other G-20 countries. “With the deficit of around 2,5 […]

Shortly after working visit to Turkey, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Thursday (6/7) arrived at Helmut-Schmidt International Airport in Hamburg, Germany, to attend the G-20 Summit. President Jokowi was welcomed by Indonesian Ambassador to Germany Federal Republic Dr. H. Fauzi Bowo and Defense Attaché of Republic of Indonesia in Berlin Colonel Kav. Tomi Kaloko Utomo. […]

Concluding his agenda in Ankara, Turkey, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo had a one on one meeting with three CEOs from Turkey’s main companies as well as a business meeting with a number of Indonesian and Turkish CEOs at JW Marriot Hotel, on Thursday (6/7) afternoon local time. On the business meeting, President Jokowi said that […]

On the second day of his visit in Turkey, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is scheduled to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Turkey in Ankara on Thursday (6/7) afternoon. Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi, in her statement to reporters on the occasion, said that Turkish President […]

Indonesia and Turkey are two countries which have huge cooperation potentials to develop, according to President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo. Therefore, during his working visit to Turkey, the President conveyed a number of areas for concrete and prioritized cooperation to his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including cooperation on trade and investment, defense, energy, and […]

Under Presidential Instruction (Inpres) Number 4 of 2017 on Budget Efficiency of Ministries/Institutions in the Implementation of State Budget (APBN) Fiscal Year 2017, signed by President Joko Widodo dated 22 June 2017, the Government will make savings of the Ministry/Institution’s (K/L) goods expenditure amounted to Rp16 trillion from the initial plan of Rp237.098 trillion to […]