COVID-19 pandemic has changed Indonesia’s baseline this year rapidly, significantly, even very fundamentally as the pandemic has brought enormous health, social, economic, and financial impacts, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani has said. “For the country’s GDP, the Government currently estimates it will be under severe and very severe conditions. Indonesia’s baseline which was originally at […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called on Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) member states to unite, synergize, and collaborate to fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “We don’t have other choice than winning the battle against the virus. Unity, synergy and collaboration are the solutions,” President Jokowi said when attending virtual ASEAN Summit on the COVID-19 Pandemic […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has reminded his Cabinet to remain vigilant against the continued impact that the COVID-19 pandemic brings on the country’s economy in 2021. “Do carefully calculate the potentials, opportunities, and various risks that may persist both in domestic market and the global market,” the President said on Tuesday (14/4). However, apart from […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo instructed Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Finance to warn regional heads who have not revised their Regional Budgets for COVID-19 mitigation. “There are 103 regions which have yet to allocate (Regional Budgets) for social safety net program,” President Jokowi said in his introductory remarks at a Plenary Cabinet Meeting […]

Ministry of Finance’s Directorate General of Taxation has announced it will provide incentives for import of goods needed to accelerate the handling of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. The incentives are in the forms of exemption of value-added tax (VAT) and Income Tax (PPh) and will apply from April 2020 to September 2020 tax period. Goods […]

  Given that the spread of COVID-19 has caused rising number of fatalities and property losses with areas affected getting widespread, as well as extensive socio-economic impacts for the country, the Government has declared the non-natural disaster of the spread of COVID-19 as a national disaster. The decision was stipulated in Presidential Decree Number 12 […]

Stronger cooperation among ASEAN Plus Three member countries is crucial to build resilience in addressing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “Today, we gather amid great challenges in facing the COVID-19 outbreak – our “common enemy” – and its continuing impacts that cause the decline in the world economy. This is […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday (14/4) issued directives on the handling of COVID-19 during a Plenary Cabinet Meeting through a Video Conference. The President’s directives are as follows: First, implementation of massive sample tests must be expanded with aggressive tracking procedures and followed by strict isolation. “I have ordered Chairperson of the COVID-19 Task […]

President Joko” Jokowi” Widodo attended the online ASEAN Special Summit on the coronavirus (COVID-19) from the Bogor Presidential Palace on Tuesday (14/4). The Special ASEAN Summit on COVID-19 was held under the chairmanship of Vietnam as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020. The Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuân Phúc acted as chairman in this Summit. […]

In a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19, Minister of Health Terawan Agus Putranto has approved the implementation of Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province. The Decree Number HK.01.07/Menkes/250/2020 was issued by the Minister on 12 April 2020 The proposal for the restrictions was made following a significant increase […]