President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, accompanied by a number of ministers, on Monday (21/12) at the State Palace had lunch with 28 representatives from the Qoriyah Thayyibah Union of Farming Communities (SPPQT) in Salatiga. Before the lunch while waiting for the President, the representatives talked with Chief of the Presidential Staff Teten Masduki. On that occasion, […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Monday afternoon (21/12) at the State Palace swore in five newly elected commissioners of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for the period of 2015 – 2019. The new Commissioners are Agus Rahardjo, Saut Situmorang, Laode Muhamad Syarif, Alexander Marwata, and Basaria Panjaitan. The swear-in ceremony took place after the Presidential […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has received the report about the security threat that could possibly happen at the time near Christmas and New Year. Responding to the report, the President asked the Indonesian National Police (Polri) Chief Gen, Badrodin Haiti to take some preventive measures.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said though he already increased the budget of Ministry of Agriculture by 100 percent, the President will wait for the result in 2-3 years, whether the given budget gives an outcome or not. “Will imported food decrease? Will the production, such as rice, corn or soy bean increase? I will see. […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said as a big country, Indonesia is now facing rapidly changing economic-geopolitical constellation dynamics after the Cold War. Free trade wave and the tension of regional integrated economic zone will be intense in the upcoming years, the President added. He also estimates that economic competition among countries will increase in the […]

Concerning major challenges and threats that must be encountered by Indonesia at the moment, President Joko Widodo thought that this is a call for all of us to defend our country. “All Indonesian citizens must have the intention and move to defend their country according to their fields of devotion,” the President said while mentioning […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo conferred awards expressed gratitute to blood donors who were voluntary donate their blood for 100 times. The President appraised their priceless actions and said that they deserve to be acknowledged as humanitarian activists.  “Your presence at this event affirm the importance of fraternity to all of us, as well as to […]

President Joko Widodo asserted that gojek and other application-based services present to answer the people’s need. Therefore, he added, a regulation should not harm the interests of the people. “Who makes the regulation? It’s us. As long as the people need it, I think there is no problem,” the President told the journalists at Bogor […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo asserted that the success of national or regional development is very determined by the cooperation or synergy between central and regional Governments, between governor and Provincial House of Representatives (DPRD), as well as between the regent/mayor and Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) at regency and city levels. “The synergy could run […]

Representatives from several Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) met President Joko Widodo, at Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Thursday (17/12), to deliver important and urgent issues which the Government must pay attention to, so that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be immediately carried out. Sugeng Subagio from Infid (International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development) explained that […]