President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has once again ordered Commander of the Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) and Chief of the Indonesian National Police (Polri) to optimize the implementation of micro-scale public activity restriction (PPKM) policy. “The President’s directives were stressed on the implementation of health protocols. He assigned the TNI Commander and Polri Chief to […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered the Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) and the Indonesian National Police (Polri) to step in to speed up COVID-19 vaccination so that the vaccination target of 700,000 jabs per day in June and one million jabs per day in July can be achieved. “The President has ordered the TNI […]

Presidential Special Staffer Angkie Yudistia, on Monday (14/6), met with Deputy Governor of East Java Emil Dardak to discuss the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination for persons with disabilities, at Grahadi Building, Surabaya, East Java Province. “We have discussed several points during the meeting, namely regarding vaccination priority for persons with disabilities in East Java and […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is aiming for vaccination coverage of 7.5 million residents in capital Jakarta by the end of August. “I have ordered Governor of Jakarta to have a total of 7.5 million people in Jakarta vaccinated by the end of August,” President Jokowi said in his remarks during the inspection of mass COVID-19 […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Monday (14/06/2021) inspected mass COVID-19 vaccination at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi, West Java. “The vaccination is held in a football stadium which can cover a large number of recipients, including persons with disabilities and public servants. We hope that the way vaccination is organized in Bekasi can be emulated […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Monday (14/06) inspected mass COVID-19 vaccination at Pluit dam in North Jakarta. The mass vaccination targeted as many as five thousand people, consisting of general public and workers. According to the President, capital Jakarta is targeted to provide 100 thousand doses of vaccine per day, adding that this target aims to […]

It is important for businesses to achieve economies of scale to boost competitiveness, according to Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Teten Masduki. The Minister made the statement during a discussion about creative economy with Bandung Culinary Community at Orbital Dago in the West Java provincial of  Bandung, Friday (11/06). Teten went […]

Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah has reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to eliminatie child labor. The Minister delivered the statement in her keynote speech at “End Child Labor: Virtual Race 2021” event organized by the International Labor Organization in commemoration of the 2021 World Day Against Child Labor, Saturday (12/06). According to Ida, the Government has […]

The Government has announced it will focus on the preparation of the 2022 hajj pilgrimage (annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) following the decision to cancel this year’s hajj pilgrimage due to health and safety concerns amid the pandemic. “We will now focus on 1443 Hijri (Islamic year) hajj preparation. The Indonesian Government will continue to […]

Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) has announced that it once again found a fake letter circulating about the promotion of non-tenured employees. Related to this issue, the Ministry’s Acting Head of Legal, Communication, and Public Information Bureau Mohammad Averrouce asserted, on Friday (11/06/2021) that the Ministry did not issue any letter […]