Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s trade balance continued to show good performance. Indonesia’s trade surplus displayed an increasing trend from Mei to September. In fact, exports of certain commodities have not only survived but skyrocketed. “Cumulatively, the trade balance for January-September 2020 reached US$13.5 billion. This value exceeds Indonesia’s trade balance as a whole in […]
The upcoming regional elections will become a great momentum to vote regional heads who are capable to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has said. The COVID-19 pandemic, Tito said, has brought a multidimensional impact, not only on health sector but also on social and economic sectors that have changed […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday (10/11) led the National Heroes Day ceremony at the Kalibata National Heroes Cemetery in South Jakarta. The ceremony was held annually to commemorate the November 10th battle in East Java capital of Surabaya back in 1945. The ceremony began with a minute of sirene, followed by a moment […]
The Government ensures the fulfillment of the rights of disability in all aspects including the rights to education, Presidential Special Staffer Angkie Yudistia said. “One of rights of persons with disabilities is access to quality education in all systems, levels, both inclusive and exclusive educations. Persons with disabilities have the equal opportunity to become education […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Monday (9/11) at the State Palace, Jakarta, handed over one million land certificates in a virtual ceremony. The handover ceremony is part of the commemoration of Agrarian and Spatial Planning Day. The beneficiaries of the certificates are the people living in 31 provinces and 201 cities/regencies. “One million certificates is […]
The Government is seeking public comments on the drafts of Job Creation Law implementing regulations, according to Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto. “In accordance with the directive of President Joko Widodo, the Government provides access for input and advice from the public and all stakeholders to accommodate the public interest, in line with […]
In a bid to strengthen national food security, Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) has announced that it is currently developing two food estate areas in Central Kalimantan Province and North Sumatra Province. “We have prepared two food estate areas in Central Kalimantan Province and North Sumatra Province. In Central Kalimantan will be […]
As part of his visit to Southeast Sulawesi province, Special Staffer to the President Billy Mambrasar, on Thursday (5/11), paid a visit to the farm belonged to Ali Alhamdi, a millennial farmer in South Konawe Regency. The visit, the Presidential Staffer said, is an effort to generate 2.5 million millennial farmers in Indonesia, a program […]
In a bid to exercise its functions in providing recommendations on the Government’s policies and programs to the President and Vice President, Cabinet Secretariat on Friday (6/11) held an online Focus Group Discussion (FGD) on Structural Reforms and Economic Recovery to seek inputs from various parties. Complex regulations and complicated bureaucracy still hamper the business […]
Indonesia’s economy is beginning to show recovery in the third quarter, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani has said. “In terms of production, the turning point for the economic recovery can be seen in the third quarter in almost all sectors, meaning that Indonesia has passed ‘the worst’ condition that happened in the second quarter. And […]
