The COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to improve national education system, Presidential Spokesperson M. Fadjroel Rachman said. “Let’s make the pandemic a momentum to improve national education ecosystem. This pandemic has two faces, danger and opportunity. We handle the danger, then we use the opportunity to improve our education,” Fadjroel said at the Webinar of […]

In a bid to revive the automotive industry, the Indonesian Government is planning to relax sales tax on luxury goods (PPnBM) for motor vehicles. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, as quoted from the ekon.go.id page, Friday (12/02), stated that the relaxation can increase people’s purchasing power and provide a jumpstart to the economy. […]

Indonesian Government and central bank Bank Indonesia (BI) have stipulated five strategic measures to keep inflation under control in the range of 3.0 ± 1% in 2021. The strategic measures agreed in the Virtual Coordination Meeting of the Central Inflation Control Team (TPIP) on Thursday (11/2) are as follows: Maintaining volatile food inflation within the […]

Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing is speeding up the construction of Manikin Dam which is projected to provide agricultural irrigation for communities in Kupang Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. “The construction of the dam must also be followed by the construction of irrigation network. Thus, a dam that is built at a high […]

  Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati has just been elected as one of the Co-Chairs of the 2021-2023 Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action. Previously, this position was held by the Chilean Minister of Finance. The selection was carried out through voting, on 10 February, attended by finance ministers from 52 Coalition member […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ordered regional governments to expand labor-intensive programs in order to strengthen people’s purchasing power and consumption. The President went on to say the people’s economy solely depends on budget allocated for state and local government expenditures. For that reason, government at city/municipality level must use the budget to adopt more labor-intensive […]

The Government will provide one million positions of contract-based government employees (PPPK) for contract teachers of all ages, according to Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Makarim. “We provide fair opportunities for all contract teachers to become government employees through the PPPK scheme. The contract teachers no longer have to wait to become the government […]

Ministry of Trade has announced its commitment to bolster economic recovery by increasing non-oil and gas exports. “To achieve the growth target of non-oil and gas exports, we must open the Indonesian market and collaborate with various countries through existing trade agreements. This is also an effort to increase the added value of each exported […]

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin confirmed that one million medical workers have received first COVID-19 vaccine jab as of Thursday (11/2). According to him, approximately 1.3 million medical workers have visited healthcare facilities to receive the vaccine, yet some of them who have comorbidities or who are pregnant cannot be vaccinated. Thus, only 1,017,186 […]

Controlling COVID-19 transmission must be a top priority in overcoming COVID-19 pandemic, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “Controlling the spread rate of the virus must be our top priority,” the President said in his remarks during the opening of the 2021 National Conference of the Indonesia City Government Association (Apeksi), Thursday (11/02) at the […]