President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) recognizes, the construction of mass transportation project such as the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project is not profitable. However, the government chose to continue the project after calculating what kind of the benefit to the state, to society, to the city. “If the calculated profit economically, mass transit projects are not […]
President Joko Widodo inaugurated the operation of tunnel boring machine (TBM) of Jakartas Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project, at Patung Pemuda (Statue of Youth), Senayan Roundabout, Jakarta, on Monday (21/9) morning. The machine that drills approximately 8 metres per day will operate 24 hours a day, starting from September to December 2016. President Joko Widodo […]
Mount Sinabung located in Karo Regency, North Sumatera erupted again, last Tuesdayspewing hot clouds up to four kilometers fromthe eruption centre. Head of Information Data Centre and Public Relations of National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said that on Tuesday (15/9) at 08.20 a.m. Sinabung spewed hot clouds reaching 4,000 meters to […]
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) assesses the role of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) and the National Counter Terrorism Agency (BNPT) very strategic in realizing the national interest. The role primarily in the areas of marine and marine safety, the war against drugs as well as the prevention of overcoming the threat […]
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), accompanied by First Lady Iriana and the fifth President of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarnoputri, attended the Summit of the Tomini Sail 2015 in Bura Wood Beach, Pangi village, Central Parigi district, Central Sulawesi, Saturday (20/9). President Jokowi in his speech said the organizing of Sail very well. However, the President noted that […]
Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi said that two Indonesian citizens held hostage by an armed civilian group in Papua New Guinea have been released and they are in a healthy condition currently. I have talked with them. They are in a good condition, Minister Retno said at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Friday […]
Since President Joko Widodo launched Economic Policy Package Stage I on 9 September 2015, the Government has finished the discussion of deregulation of 31 from 134 regulations which include in the Economic Policy Package. We continue to work simultaneously to finish the deregulation package as soon as possible, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Darmin Nasution […]
Gebyar Tomini Batik Stand that organized by the Cabinet Secretariat in cooperation with the Indonesian Batik Foundation, Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Education and Culture, which is held on the sidelines of the implementation of Tomini Sail 2015 in Parigi Moutong, Central Sulawesi, 15-20 September 2015, in great demand by visitors. Since […]
According to Head of the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei, President Joko Jokowi Widodo during the meeting instructed all government ranks to immediately extinguish the forest and peat land fire and clean six provinces in Sumatera and Kalimantan from the haze caused by the fire. Willem added that time needed to extinguish […]
Head of Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Franky Sibarani said that through a one-stop integrated service (PTSP), his office had simplified investment licenses. For instance, he said, for electrical investment license, previously it required 49 licenses and took 923 days and since January this year, after the PTSP was launched, the license process has been simplified […]
