On the sidelines of G7 Summit, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday (27/5) to discuss cooperation to develop Patimban deep-sea port project in Subang, West Java. The seaport is aimed at supporting the flow of goods to and from industrial estates in regencies east of Jakarta that are […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo said that the Asia-Pacific region is the safest region compared to other regions; hence, it is not surprising the economic growth in Asia during 2016-2017 is projected to have a relatively better economic growth at 5.3 percent, compared to the global average of 3.2 percent. President Jokowi made the statement in […]

On the first day of his working visit to Japan, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodomet with President of Sri Lanka MaithripalaSirisena to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries, including Indonesia’s plan to export trains to Sri Lanka. The meeting was held on Thursday (26/5) at Nagoya Kanko Hotel.

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Thursday (26/5) has left from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport, for Nagoya, Japan, to attend an outreach meeting during the G7 Summit at the invitation of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The President will participate in the G7 outreach meeting on Friday (27/5), in Ise-Shima, Japan, located two hours from Nagoya. […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Wednesday (25/5) signs a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 1 of 2016 on the second amendment to the Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection which regulates harsher punishments for those committed sexual violence against children. The new Perppu stipulates harsher punishment for the criminals, including […]

Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo who was instructed by President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo to scrap thousands of bylaws considered detrimental to the Country admits that he has already completed the target. “Ministry of Home Affairs has met the target by annulling 3,143 bylaws,” Tjahjo said on Wednesday (25/5). The Minister mentioned that the annulled […]

Indonesian Minister of Finance Bambang Brodjonegoro instructs the Ministry’s  Directorate General of Taxation to take a firm action against foreign tax evaders in the past 10 years or those that always claim to have suffered from financial losses. “A more strict investigation to foreign tax evaders,” Bambang said on Wednesday (25/5) in Jakarta. Bambang personally […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo instructs Coordinating Minister for the Economy Darmin Nasution and Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung to soon prepare and establish a task force to monitor the implementation of de-regulation policy packages. The President himself will lead the task force. “We hope that all those de-regulation packages (1st-12th policy packages) can be implemented effectively […]

The Government has to continue monitoring and evaluating all its priority programs, including economic policy packages, be it through direct inspections or overviewing the procedures, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo says. “I will always check and ensure the packages are implemented effectively,” President Jokowi said at the limited meeting on Tuesday (24/5), at the Presidential Office. […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has told Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo to eliminate 3000 ‘troubled’ regional laws until July this year at the latest. “We don’t have to evaluate them first because last year I instructed the Home Affairs Ministry to evaluate them. In one month, they evaluated seven regional laws. If we have […]