The Government of Saudi Arabia has reopened umrah (nonmandatory Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca performed at any time of the year) for Indonesian pilgrims, Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno L. P. Marsudi said, Saturday (09/10). The information was delivered through a diplomatic note on Friday (08/10). “The embassy has received information from the competent party in […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered relevant stakeholders to make preparation to resume international flights at I Gusti Ngurah Rai airport in the resort island of Bali. “We must prepare the infrastructure so that tourists will come and COVID-19 will be under control,” the President said in his directives to the Regional Leadership Communication Forum […]
After concluding a working visit in Bali province, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo accompanied by First Lady Ibu Iriana Joko Widodo and the entourage headed to the Special Region of Yogyakarta to carry out a series of working visit. The President and his entourage took off from I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Badung regency, at […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has expressed appreciation to Bali province for its success in handling COVID-19 with active cases reduced to 95 percent of peak cases. For the record, daily cases in the resort island of Bali on Thursday (7/10) recorded only 60 cases, dropped from the peak period of 1,910 cases in August. In […]
In a bid to tackle the issue of state collection rights for the Bank of Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) Funds, the Government through Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs has announced that it will strengthen the BLBI Task Force. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mohammad Mahfud MD on Thursday (07/10/2021) […]
The Indonesian Government has announced that 173,329 non-tenured teachers have passed the first selection exam to become Contract-based Government Employees (PPPK) teachers this year. The announcement was made by the Government through Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology together with the National Civil Service Agency (BKN), Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform, […]
Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin Thursday (07/10) launched the integration of PeduliLindungi QR Code with 50 other apps. “I hereby officially launch the partnership between PeduliLindungi application with partner applications. I hope the cooperation can support the development of Indonesia’s health infrastructure in the future,” the Minister said. For the record, the QR Code […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Friday (08/10) expressed desire that mangrove rehabilitation model at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park is also to be adopted in other provinces in the country. According to the President, the mangrove forest that has been planted since 2003 is a pilot rehabilitation ecosystem of mangrove forest that can be […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo, Friday (08/10), inspected mangrove forest in Ngurah Rai Forest Park, Bali province. In the Forest Park, the President and First Lady walked 500 meters across the mangrove forest area to the observation tower, accompanied by Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of […]
Following Indonesia’s G20 presidency next year, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has emphasized that this momentum must be used to provide services and showcase the best from Indonesia as the host of the international event. “We must be able to take make the most of the G20 Summit as a showcase of our country’s ability in […]
