President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Wednesday (8/6), at the Presidential Office, led a limited meeting on transportation infrastructures development, particularly Light Rail Transit (LRT) projects in Jakarta, Palembang, and Greater Bandung. “Alhamdulillah, at today’s meeting, we have addressed all problems (related to LRT development) including the differences between the central and regional governments and state-owned […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo said transportation infrastructures development, especially in major cities, should be aimed at three goals: connectivity, integration among modes of transportation, and modernization of transportation infrastructures and facilities. Connectivity is meant to connect regions so it can boost the economy, lower logistic costs, and lower transportation costs so Indonesia’s competitiveness can be […]

The National Commission on Violence Against Women stresses the importance to put protection on sexual violence victims on the bill on Sexual Violence Elimination contained in the National Legislation Program (Prolegnas). The statement was made during a meeting between Chairperson of the National Commission on Violence Against Women Azriana and some of its officials with […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday at the State Palace instructed his ministers to anticipate instability in global economic condition. “The economic movements changed rapidly in days, hours, and seconds,” President Jokowi said in his remarks on a Plenary Cabinet Meeting, at the State Palace, Tuesday (7/6). The country depends on two things: state expenditures […]

Members of the National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN), led by its Chairman Soetrisno Bachir, on Tuesday (7/6), met with President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo at the Merdeka Palace to report the results of its strategic studies on economic and industry issues and to give recommendations to the Government to reach a 7 percent economic growth.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, on Tuesday at the office of the Ministry of Finance, told 1,768 echelon 2 officials of ministries and institutions to work in line with the regulations. In his previous working meeting with echelon 1 officials, the President mentioned that ministers, heads of agencies, echelon 1 officials, and echelon 2 officials, both […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has yet to give an instruction about candidates of the Indonesian National Police Chief to replace Police Chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti who will enter his retirement period, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said. “It is the President’s authority. Even though the President has requested for the opinions from several sides including his […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo believes that national strategic projects will bring added values to development in the regions because those projects are carried out in all over Indonesia such as Sumatera, Java, Kalimantan, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua. Therefore, the President instructs his administration to stay focused so that those priority programs that […]

Chairman of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) on Monday (6/6) at the State Palace, Jakarta, submitted the financial audit reports on the 2015 Central Government Financial Report (LKPP) to President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo. According to the BPK, 56 government institutions received “unqualified opinion”, 26 received a “qualified opinion”, and 4 received “disclaimer opinion”.

The Government has no plan to lay off millions of civil servants as reported by the media recently, Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced on Friday. According to Kalla, the Government will instead implement the ‘civil servant negative growth’ policy. “We won’t abruptly discharge them. There will be no layoffs.Civil servants cannot be laid off. It […]