The handling of the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic requires close cooperation among countries in a more accurate and detailed manner, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. “Cooperation is the most important thing so that we can tackle this pandemic,” the President said during the International Conference on Tackling The COVID-19 Pandemic: Health, Economics, […]

  Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto on Tuesday (23/02) officially opened the 12th batch of the Pre-Employment Card Program which marked the beginning of the program in 2021. Airlangga, who is also a Chairperson of the Job Creation Committee, said that the Pre-Employment Card Program had successfully carried out its mandate as a […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, on Tuesday (22/3), inaugurated Napun Gete Dam, in Sikka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. Napun Gete Dam is part of the Government’s development project to build seven dams in East Nusa Tenggara Province. Previously, the President had inaugurated Raknamo Dam located in Kupang Regency back in 2018, and Rotiklot Dam located […]

The Government continues to optimize the State Budget and fiscal policy as key to achieve economic recovery, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati has said. “For the Central Government, the expenditure has reached Rp94.7 trillion or 32.4 percent higher compared to the last year’s expenditure of Rp71.5 trillion. This is what we call the spending […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday (23/2) visited a food estate located in Makata Keri village, Katiku Tana sub-district, Central Sumba regency, East Nusa Tenggara province. The development of the food estate is the Government’s long-term program for the province. During the visit, the President announced that the food estate will be expanded to 10,000 […]

Newly-inaugurated President Director of the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) Ali Ghufron Mukti has announced he will focus on service improvement through innovation and technology utilization. We also want to improve and focus on service quality so that quality can improve. We will enhance the whole customer journey with technological innovation, information system […]

In a bid to prevent spike in the number of COVID-19 cases, the Government has decided to reduce the number of collective leave days this year. The decision is stipulated in a Joint Decree of Minister of Religious Affairs, Minister of Manpower, and Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Number 281 of 2021 […]

  The Government renewed its commitment to push for strategic role of the industrial sector in driving the national economy amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, the manufacturing industry has provided a great contribution to the economy, including increasing the added value of domestic raw materials, […]

Newly-inaugurated Managing Director of the BPJS Ketenagakerjaan (Workers Social Security Provider Body), Anggoro Eko Cahyo, made a firm commitment to carry out digital transformation. The measure is taken in order to address three main challenges, namely, increasing number of workers registered as active participants, improvement of services and benefits for the workers, and optimization of […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Monday (22/02) at the State Palace inaugurated the members of Board of Supervisors and Board of Directors of the Social Security Agency for Health Care (BPJS Kesehatan) and the Social Security Agency for Employment (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan). The inauguration is based on Decree of the President of the Republic of Indonesia […]