President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Saturday (14/11) attended a series of 37th ASEAN Summit virtually from Bogor Presidential Palace in West Java province. The first summit was the ASEAN-New Zealand Summit, followed by the 2nd biennial ASEAN-Australia Summit, the 23rd ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit, the APT Leaders Meeting with East Asia Business Council (EABC) […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, on the last day of the series of the 37th ASEAN Summit, attended several virtual conferences from Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, including the 11th ASEAN-the United Nations (UN) Summit and the 4th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Summit. The RCEP is a free trade agreement that involved 15 countries in […]
The 37th ASEAN Summit which was attended by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo virtually from the Bogor Presidential Palace on Thursday (12/11) has produced 33 agreement documents, Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi has said. The agreement include the Hanoi Declaration on the ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision, the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework, the Hanoi Declaration on […]
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt around the globe especially in health and economic sectors, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in his remarks at the 37th ASEAN Summit (via video conference), Thursday (12/11). “We still face big challenges, but the President invites participants of the Summit to continue work hand-in-hand and […]
In commemoration of the 2020 International Disability Day, Presidential Special Staffer Angkie Yudistia on Friday (13/11) held a workshop with the theme “Disabilities Empowered in Entrepreneurship, Referring to Planning and Evaluation of the Rights of People with Disabilities” in Magelang, Central Java. According to Angkie, the commemoration of the 2020 International Disability Day held under […]
In a bid to speed up tourism recovery and ensure quality tourism in the country’s tourism destinations, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy / the Tourism and Creative Economy Agency on Thursday (12/11) held a simulation on the health, security and safety (3K) protocol in the tourist resort of Labuan Bajo in East Nusa Tenggara […]
As of the third quarter this year, budget realization of the National Economic Recovery (PEN) program has stood at Rp383.01 trillion or accounting for 55.1 percent from the allocated budget ceiling of Rp695.2 trillion, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. “The PEN budget realization saw a tremendous acceleration in the third quarter and we […]
A variety of important changes that occur in the Indo-Pacific region and the world will provide an opportunity for ASEAN countries to further strengthen partnerships with other countries in the surrounding region such as India, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. The President expressed belief that ASEAN and India can strengthen cooperation in various fields […]
The close partnership between ASEAN and South Korea can contribute to efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and to recover the economy in the region, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said. “At the end of last year, in Busan, I expressed optimism for the ASEAN-South Korea partnership. In the midst of this pandemic, I remain optimistic. […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called for enhanced cooperation between ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China to achieve more progress ahead of three decades of partnership between the two parties next year. According to the President, the cooperation is expected to push countries in the region to tackle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
