President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said the world now is extremely changing. It becomes more complex and the next challenges will be harder. It all could be faced if people’s quality of life is great. “Only the healthy and prosperous mother, children, and family can create generation that have great quality, character, and personality, also care […]

In order to improve Indonesia’s competitiveness, the Government, beside increasing infrastructure development and people’s work ethic, will also conduct a major improvement on permit. “There should be no more permits that take years to finish. There should be no more permits that take months to finish. I have already told all ministries. When I finish […]

Infrastructure development is a key for Indonesian people to enter competition era. However, infrastructure development must be accompanied with the improvement of work ethic, because without it, Indonesia will be left behind by other countries. When delivering the remarks on the Launching of Third Stage of Investment Program to Create Job Opportunities, in Ketonggo Hamlet, […]

The Indonesian Government has decided to revise Law Number 15 of 2003 on the Stipulation of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 of 2002 on the Eradication of Terrorism Acts. The decision was made during a limited meeting on the prevention of terrorism and de-radicalization at the Presidential Office, Jakarta on Thursday (21/1) […]

In a limited meeting on terrorism and radicalism at the Presidential Office Jakarta on Thursday (21/1) afternoon, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said preventing acts of terrors is considered necessary and urgent. He also said that the efforts need a more clear, strong, and comprehensive legal basis so security forces will not hesitate to take action […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo said that clean governance must not only be a slogan but must also be translated into action. Through his Twitter account @jokowi posted a couple of days ago, the President urged the people to ignore anyone (either his families, his volunteers, his officials, or others) who ask for projects by using […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Thursday led a ground breaking ceremony of a joint project with China to build high speed rail service, connecting Jakarta with Bandung in West Java. “Once again, this is an important cooperation between the Indonesian Government and the Chinese Government and we are hoping for other cooperation and new cooperation,” […]

On Thursday (21/1) afternoon, President Joko Widodo presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail line in Maswati Plantation, Cikalong Wetan Subdistrict, West Bandung Regency, West Java. In his remarks, the President stated that this era is a competitiveness era. He mentioned that it is a country with high competitiveness that will win the […]

The Government is preparing two legal basis namely Presidential Regulation (Perpres) and Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) on the prevention and handling of child abuse crimes. “The President has agreed to issue a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) and a Presidential Regulation (Perpres),” Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said in a press […]

President Joko Widodo instructed to make a thorough improvement in providing ease of doing business to businesspeople in Indonesia. The aspects that must be improved are: (1) business start-up; (2) licensing; (3) property registration; (4) electricity; (5) tax payment; (6) cross country trading; (7) access to credit; (8) protection for minority investors; (9) contract enforcement; […]