Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has called on regional leaders to increase spending on public services whose benefits are felt directly by the public. He also ordered regional leaders to reduce personnel expenditures, including expenditures whose benefits are only felt directly by the regional apparatus, but not directly felt by the public such as […]

Higher education must facilitate students to develop their talents and change old patterns in order to cope up with the changing world and the increasing global uncertainties, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. “Students should not be restrained by study programs only. We must facilitate students as much as possible to develop their talents that […]

As of September 10, 2021, the Government has disbursed Rp 377.5 trillion of this year’s National Economic Recovery Program budget. “The realization of National Economic Recovery Program has reached 50.7 percent of the Rp 744.77 trillion total budget,” Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said in a press conference, Monday (13/09). According to him, […]

  Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian issued Ministerial Instruction Number 42 of 2021 on the Enforcement of Level 4, Level 3, and Level 2 Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) in Java and Bali Regions. Based on the Instruction signed by the Minister on 13 September 2021, the Instruction takes effect from 14-20 September. Level 4 […]

University must be able to produce exemplary students with healthy body and soul, good characters, and great national visions, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. President Jokowi reminded all that it is no easy task for the universities but they must be able to accomplish it. Therefore, rectors and lecturers are not only obliged to […]

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto asserted that public activity restrictions (PPKM) implemented in regions outside the islands of Java and Bali have successfully decreased the number of provinces implementing PPKM Level 4 from two to zero. Based on weekly assessment on the implementation of PPKM in regions outside the islands of Java and […]

  President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered all stakeholders to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination, especially in provinces with the first dose vaccination rate lower than 20 percent. “The President has ordered Ministry of Health, Commander of the Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI), and Chief of the Indonesian National Police (Polri) to pay attention to provinces with […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Monday (13/09) ordered his administration to maintain the improvement for COVID-19 handling. For the record, there are currently less than 100,000 active cases in the country. “According to the President’s directive in the (limited) meeting, we should maintain the momentum for the decline in (active) cases, which was already less than […]

In a bid to prevent the entry of new variants of COVID-19 virus, the Government is tightening entry borders throughout the country, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said. “The Government has decided to tighten all the country’s entrance posts by completing and tightening the quarantine measures, whether by air, sea or land,” Budi […]

The Government continues to prepare for the transition from COVID-19 pandemic to COVID-19 endemic by speeding up vaccination across the country. “As part of the transition processes to live with COVID-19, we have decided to include indicators of vaccination rate in the evaluation of activity restrictions (PPKM) levels in the islands of Java and Bali,” […]