Eventhough Government has takena number of actions to create a condusive macro economic condition among others by promoting the acceleration of government’s spending, through an acceleration of budget absorpsion and also doing the steps for strengthening payments’ balance, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) admitted that the actions are not enough. Therefore, he added, the Government continuedmaking […]

Vice Cabinet Secretary Bistok Simbolon said that expert staff in ministries and institutions, which number around 170-200 persons or almost 30 percent of the number of all echelon 1 officials, have not been functioned maximally. In fact, he said, in terms of experience and agility, he ensured that those expert staff is great asset.  “There […]

To support the package of deregulation and de-bureaucratization launched by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) in Economic Policy Package Phase I September 2015, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) also launched a policy of allowing foreigners to open an account valued at 50,000 US dollars in foreign exchange banks in Indonesia, The policy was announced by the […]

Minister of Villages, Underdeveloped Regions and Transmigration Marwan Jafar said that the delays on disbursing village funds problem were not in the central government but lied in the Regencies/ Municipalities. “The central government has disbursed village funds to all regencies/municipalities. The problem is now that there is a delay on disbursing village funds from the […]

President Joko Widodo accompanied by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, on Tuesday (8/9) afternoon, led a limited cabinet meeting that discussed Flight Information Region (FIR) i.e. the airspace used for air traffic. Minister of Transportation Ignasius Jonan accompanied by Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung and Commander of Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said that […]

In a bid to support the First Phase Government action announcing the Economic Policy Package of September 2015, Bank Indonesia (BI) as the monetary authority also introduced new policies in September 2015. “The new policies are the ones that have been coordinated with the Government particularly, the  Central Government and related authorities especially Minister of […]

Gatot said that based on Annex 11 Article 2 paragraph 1 point 1, Flight Information Region (FIR) may be given to other countries but it is limited only on the operation of air navigation control. “In this case, Singapore sets the danger area. I repeat, a danger area and thus the area is used only […]

During the limited cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon (8/9) at the Presidential Office, Jakarta, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo told state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina to reduce its dependency on US Dollar. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Pramono  Anung said that Pertamina’s dependency on US dollar is the highest compared to any […]

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will launch the economic policy package on Wednesday (9/9) in an attempt stability of the domestic economy amid the global economic pressures. Through his twitter account @jokowi uploaded a few moments ago, President Jokowi wrote, “Today will be launched economic policy package. Hopefully it can bring progress.” “The purpose of this […]

In order to improve the service of public transportation that will support the development in Jakarta, Bogor and Bekasi, President Joko Widodo signed  Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2015 on the Acceleration of Integrated Light Rail Transit (LRT) Implementation in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok and Bekasi, on Wednesday (2/9). Based on the Presidential Regulation, the implementation […]