The officials and employees within the Presidential Office, Jakarta, which comes from the Ministry of State Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat, Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security, Coordinating Ministry of Human Development and Culture, Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, Council of National Security, Presidential Staff Office, Presidential Advisory Council, and National Disaster Management Agency, […]

Minister of Marine and Fisheries Susi Pudjiastuti expressed that marine resources in Indonesia has to be exhausted. Thus, the things we need to do now is to conduct the fish farming. “There must be sustainability for the results of marine able to reserved for the next generation,” said Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Susi Pudjiastuti, […]

Head of Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Franky Sibarani explained, permits investment completed within 3 (three) hours as stated by Coordinating Minister for Economics Darmin Nasution, produces three products, namely the principle permits itself, the deed of company, and the Taxpayer Identification Number (of NPWP ). To process the permits within 3 hours, the agency also […]

President Joko Widodo asked businessmen and rice mill enterpreneurs to support the program of the Government to achieve food self-sufficiency. He told that invitation in his remark when hosting a lunch for the rice mill enterpreneurs, rice businessmen, and rice merchants in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Jabodetabek) at the State Palace, Jakarta on […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Sunday (27/9) visited a rice field in Karawang, West Java, to see the harvest of a new variety of rice, 3S. On that occasion, the President expressed his optimism that rice needs in the country would be fulfilled particularly after the rice variety, found by the Bogor Institute of Agricultural […]

Head of the Population and Family Planning (BKKBN) Dr Surya Chandra Surapaty, MPH, Ph.D., Said that Indonesia’s population growth rate currently at 1.49 percent, is too high. Therefore, the government through the BKKBN conveyed that Indonesia’s population growth rate can be reduced to 1.1 percent. “With a growth rate of 1.49 per cent of the […]

Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung admitted that the Singaporean government had offered assistance to extinguish forest and peatland fires, which brought about haze crisis in Singapore, to the Indonesian Government. However, he said that the Government decided to try to extinguish the fire our with its own ways. “I admitted, there are attempts (to offer assistance). […]

Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki asserted that the Government will take action and keep trying to extinguish forest and peatland fires which caused haze calamity in several areas, including in several neighbouring countries, namely Singapore and Malaysia. However, regarding the criticism delivered by Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam who protested on how Indonesian […]

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs (CMEA), Darmin Nasution said the Economic Policy Package Phase II, which will be announced by the government in the near future is designed and would further highlight the sector or substance. “It is not a repetition, but this is a continuation. Because we see it is not well understood by […]

The President expressed his hope for an improvement of the economy of villages in Indonesia. According to him, the Government has allocated fund by Rp 20.7 trillion for 74,754 villages all over Indonesia. “I want the economy of villages to be improved. In 2015, the village fund is allocated at Rp 20.7 trillion. Please, use […]