The Task Force tasked to resolve the issue of state collection rights for the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) Funds has made another move to confiscate assets from the Texmaco group in form of 587 parcels of land situated in five regions. The assets which have a total area of 4,794,202 square meters are located […]

The Government pushed for hospitals across the country to prepare contingency measures so that hospital capacity will be sufficient to accommodate COVID-19 patients, Spokesperson for the COVID-19 National Task Force Wiku Adisasmito said. This came following the first case of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Indonesia. “The Government urges hospitals throughout the […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Friday (12/24) inaugurates office building of Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Mosque Council (DMI). President Jokowi expressed hope that with the new office DMI will be even more eager to make mosques not only places of worship for Muslims but also as educational centers as well as intellectual da’wah centers. […]

The Government continues to step up measures to alleviate poverty, one of which through provision of sharia social funds. According to Vice President Ma’ruf Amin, utilization of sharia social funds can be seen, among others, from the establishment of Micro Waqf Banks that aim to provide access to financial services for micro and small businesses. […]

  Minister of Health, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, and Minister of Religious Affairs have issued new Joint Ministerial Decree on Guidelines for Teaching and Learning Activities during COVID-19 Pandemic. The Joint Ministerial Decree stipulates more detailed provisions for limited face-to-face learning. “Vaccination rate of educators and education personnel […]

The spread of COVID-19 that is under control, high vaccination rate, as well as cancelation of public activity restrictions (PPKM) level 3 during Christmas and New Year period this year have brought a great effect to bring community’s optimism to rebound and resume their regular socio-economic activities. Education units have also started carrying out limited […]

The Government has renewed its commitment to supporting women’s empowerment and child protection through the State Budget (APBN) as an instrument, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani has said. According to the Minister, the commitment is implemented through a new innovation, namely the Non-Physical Special Allocation Fund (DAK NF) to provide services and protect women and […]

Indonesia’s G20 Presidency will encourage job creations in the country, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati has said. For the record, there will be more than 157 meetings in a series of events next year. “The amount is more than Rp7 trillion,” the Minister said as quoted from the website of Ministry of Finance on […]

Successful COVID-19 handling in Indonesia is the result of mutual cooperation of all related stakeholders, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “It is not the work of one, two, or three people. In fact, it is a mutual cooperation and everyone makes their best effort. You cannot say that it is the success of the […]

Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has the power to contribute to economic equality since many competent young people and santri (Islamic boarding school students) in the organization can move the people’s economy, according to President Joko “Jokowi”. “That is like a locomotive. I believe such power can pull the carriages so that we […]