Vice President Ma’ruf Amin, on Thursday (02/09), inspected the implementation of face-to-face learning at Darunnajah Islamic Boarding School, Jakarta. This inspection aims to look closely at how health protocols are being implemented by the school during face-to-face teaching and learning process. For the record, following a government regulation stating that regions enforcing level 1 to […]

  Ministry of Health has set maximum tariff for Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Test (Ag-RDT) at Rp90,000 in Java and Bali islands and Rp109,000 outside Java and Bali. This provision is stated in Circular Number HK 02.02/I/3065/2021 on the Maximum Tariff for Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Test (Ag-RDT) which was signed by the Director General of Health […]

Indonesia on Thursday (09/02) received another batch of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. “The exact number is 1,195,340 doses of vaccine. I express my gratitude for the support and cooperation of all stakeholders who made the vaccine arrival possible,” Vice Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono said in a press conference welcoming the arrival of the vaccine. […]

In a bid to ensure the fairness of basic competency selection test for civil servant candidates (CPNS) which begins today, Thursday (02/09), Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reforms Tjahjo Kumolo has warned test takers to be wary of the so-called middleman. “There must be so-called middleman (in the test) every year. Be cautious!” […]

Cabinet Secretariat through the Deputy for Human Development and Culture Affairs held a virtual Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with the theme “Optimizing Data Utilization for Policy-Making in Human Development and Culture Affairs” on Wednesday (31/8). According to Deputy to Cabinet Secretary for Human Development and Culture Affairs Yuli Harsono, the accurate and reliable data is […]

The Government has announced that the 2022 Non-physical Special Allocation Fund (DAK Nonfisik) in education sector will focus on four policies. The four policies are as follows: First, the distribution of the School Operational Assistance (BOS), Educational Operational Assistance (BOP) for Early Childhood Education (PAUD), and BOP for Degree Equalization (Packet A, B, C) will […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo received Letters of Credence from four new Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of friendly countries, at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (01/09), marking the official start of their ambassadorial duties in Indonesia. The credentials submission was started with a welcoming ceremony for the Ambassadors at the front yard of the Palace. On […]

The Government and Commission XI of the Indonesian House of Representatives has agreed on the Basic Macroeconomic Assumptions on the State Budget Bill for Fiscal Year 2022. The agreed amount of economic growth is 5.2-5.5 percent (year on year), an inflation rate of three percent, the rupiah exchange rate of Rp 14,350/USD and the 10-Year […]

Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian urged regional governments to strengthen internal supervision through improvement of quality and quantity of the Government Internal Supervisory Apparatus (APIP). “It is important to strengthen the APIP. In term of the quality, it can be done through technical trainings,” Tito said at the opening of the National Coordination Meeting of […]

Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) has distributed infrastructure, facilities, and utilities (PSU) assistance amounting to Rp3.6 billion to Papua Province, this year. The assistance is used for the neighborhood road construction of 395 subsidized housing units in Jayapura Regency, Jayapura City, and Merauke Regency. The assistance is part of the Government’s commitment […]