Ministry of Research and Technology/the National Agency for Research and Innovation is developing integrated salt technology in accordance with the directive of the President. “The salt factory should be directly integrated with the land, so that salt farmers can sell their salt products, with NaCl lower than 90 percent, to the factory,” Minister of Research […]

The Government continues its efforts to speed up absorption of domestic salt for industrial use. Ministry of Industry has carried on business matching program since 2018 to facilitate cooperation between industries that use salt as raw material and local salt farmers. “Based on the MoU  (between industries and salt famers), the target for absorption from […]

The Indonesian Government has renewed its commitment to provide livable houses for the people through that One Million House program that has been implemented since 2015. The program is focused on low-income people. For the record, by 2030 Indonesia’s population is predicted to reach nearly 300 million, 63.4 percent of whom will live in urban […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered his Cabinet to reform supply chain of domestically produced salt in a bid to accelerate the absorption in the market and in industries. “The Government should start massive reforms in salt supply chain, starting from the upstream part to the downstream part,” President Jokowi said during a limited meeting […]

The Government has issued a number of regulations that provide freedom for university students to improvise and not only depend on education set by the university, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung has said. According to Pramono, the Government will also facilitate an internship program for the students so they can learn about professional world. “The Government […]

In a bid to immediately meet demand for salt for industries, the Government has announced it will allow import of the commodity, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has said. According to Luhut, the measure was taken because national salt production cannot yet fulfill demand for the commodity for national industries […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Saturday (3/10) said that there are still rooms for improvement to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. For the record, the Indonesian Government has previously launched a number of policies to protect and ease the citizen’s burden due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts. A budget of Rp239.53 trillion has […]

Despite 75 years since the establishment of the United Nations (UN) and 50 years since the signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the world is still far from the total elimination of nuclear weapons, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi has said. “No significant progress has been made by the possessor states in […]

Presidential Staffer Billy Mambrasar as the Indonesian’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ambassador encouraged the youth to become more productive in early age. “The generation must be encouraged to be productive at young age, during their school years, so they can develop the entrepreneurial spirit,” Billy said when ensuring the Government’s effort in creating productive millennial […]

In the last seven months the Government has made its best effort to fight COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic that has hit at least 215 countries requires the Government to act quickly in managing the balance between handling the pandemic and economic recovery. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo delivered his remarks on Saturday (3/10), reiterating that from […]