President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Wednesday (06/22) started his working visit to East Kalimantan province (Kaltim) by visiting Mentawir Nursery located in Mentawir village, Sepaku district, North Penajam Paser regency. During the working visit, President also brought along several national and regional mass media Editors-in-Chief. According to the President, the construction of Mentawir Nursery has become […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is slated to kick off overseas working visits at the end of June with countries to visit including Germany, Ukraine, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno LP Marsudi, the President’s visit to Germany is to fulfill Germany’s invitation as Chair of the G7 to […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Wednesday (06/22) kicked off East Kalimantan working visit. The President and his entourage took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang city, Banten province onboard Indonesia-1 Presidential Aircraft at around 07.15 Western Indonesian time. Upon arrival at Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport in Balikpapan city, East Kalimantan province, the […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Tuesday (06/21) received an honorary visit from the World Health Organization’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at Merdeka Palace, Jakarta. “The Director General really appreciated Indonesia’s leadership in the G20,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno L.P. Marsudi said in a press statement after accompanying the President at the meeting. The Director […]

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin Tuesday (06/21) revealed Indonesia’s five targets for health sector during the G20 Presidency. The targets are as follows: First, the establishment of financial intermediary fund (FIF) for pandemic preparedness. Thanks to the collaboration between Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani and Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi, the FIF was […]

Indonesia must put forward gotong royong (mutual cooperation) strategy to win today’s global competition, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “We need gotong royong as an appropriate strategy for facing competition,” President Jokowi said at the opening of the 2nd National Working Meeting of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), at the Party School […]

In a bid to face the possible food crisis, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called for people’s mutual cooperation to build self-reliance in the food sector based on the strength of each region. “Food sovereignty, food security must be our focus going forward. Each region must have its food specialty that is suitable to the characteristics […]

Anticipating global food crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict between Russia and Ukraine, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered his administration to focus on increasing food production, ensuring availability of offtakers, and distributing food commodity. “I order that we focus on, first, massively increasing production, be it farmers’, corporations’ or SOEs’ production. We […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ordered his Cabinet to be aware of the current global situation and to anticipate food and energy crises. “Energy crisis, food crisis, financial crisis have started to hit several countries. There are approximately 60 countries which are facing pressure due to debt. It suppresses their economy which currently has no foreign […]

In a bid to suppress and curb the current spread of livestock foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the Government continues conducting various measures, one of which is to immediately procure and distribute FMD vaccines in large quantities for livestock vaccination. “I hope the herd immunity can be achieved soon after vaccination,” Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga […]