Indonesia’s manufacturing expansion rate has hit a new record as reflected in Indonesia’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) that stood at 55.3 in May this year. The figure released by HIS Markit grew significantly compared to that in April at 54.6. PMI above 50 shows that the industry sector is expansive. The expansive position […]

Cabinet Secretariat has cut its budget by Rp26.33 billion for the 2021 budget year. “Due to COVID-19, we refocused (our budget) and we cut it by Rp5 billion. And following the the last letter from Ministry of Finance on Ministry/Agency Spending Cut, we slashed our budget again by Rp21.33 billion,” Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said […]

Indonesia is committed to supporting the Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto has said. During the meeting to be held in Glasgow, the United Kingdom on 1-12 November this year, Indonesia, the Minister said, will serve as co-chair alongside the United Kingdom. “The Indonesian Government once again […]

  Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Tuesday (01/06) launched COVID-19 vaccination for people with disabilities, both those with physical disabilities and mental disabilities. “This is the first time for the Government provides vaccination for people with mental disabilities. People with mental disorders generally have many comorbidities but they cannot tell others what they […]

Pancasila as the philosophy of the nation is a powerful weapon to address a host of problems the country is facing, according to Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung. “Pancasila as the state ideology that lives in this nation, that grows and develops from the nation itself, has always been proven to be the solution to all […]

During the commemoration of Pancasila Day on 1 June this year, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo stated that the commemoration is a momentum to strengthen the values of the state ideology of Pancasila in the life of the nation and state. Although Pancasila has been integrated in the life of Indonesian nation since the country was […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo acted as the ceremony inspector and led the commemoration ceremony of the Birth of Pancasila, through video conference from the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, on Tuesday (1/6). In the ceremony adopting the theme “Pancasila in Action, United towards Resilient Indonesia”, President Jokowi wore traditional attire of Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan […]

Indonesia has recorded an increasing number of COVID-19 cases after Eid al-Fitr holiday, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin has stated. “There has been an increase [in COVID-19 active cases], although the number is still far below the number reported at the beginning of the year which was approximately 170,000 (active cases),” Budi said in […]

The Government continues to speed up COVID-19 vaccination that targets 181.5 million of Indonesia’s population to immediately achieve herd immunity. With adequate vaccine supplies, the vaccination rate has bounced back to 500,000 per day, according to Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin. “We have reached 500,000 vaccinations per day again. Thank God, this month we […]

  The Government has announced that it has received eight million doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine bulk from China. “Today we receive another vaccine bulk that will be used for the Indonesian people. To date, Indonesia has had a total of 75.9 million doses of vaccines,” said Minister of State-Owned Enterprises who is also the […]