President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced plans to add more than 450 new positions for TNI (the Indonesian National Defence Forces) officers with the rank of colonel and 300 more new positions for high-ranking TNI officers. “The Government is currently reviewing the draft for Presidential Regulation on TNI Organization, to add more than 450 new positions […]
Soekarno Hatta Airport Train started its operation from Manggarai Station, Jakarta on Saturday (5/10). “I hope that the additional hub can increase the occupancy of the airport train and can provide better services to the public,” said Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi at the launching of the airport train at Manggarai Station.
The Government is ready to provide the required additional budget after the plenary session of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Thursday (3/10) decided that the Assembly will have more leaders for 2019-2024 period. “If the decision has been made, we will add the budget,” Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati told the reporters at […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo highly appreciated personnel from Manggala Agni (the forest fire control brigade), the Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI), the Indonesian National Police (Polri), the Assessment and Application of Technology Agency (BPPT), Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), and Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), and Masyarakat Peduli […]
Following the issuance of Presidential Regulation Number 54 of 2018 on National Strategic of Corruption Prevention and to encourage the effectiveness of the implementation of gratification control, Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) has ordered all ministries and institutions, Provincial Governments, Regency Governments and City Governments to establish a Gratification Control Unit […]
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto has urged the public not to leave Wamena, the capital city of Jayawijaya Regency in Papua, and to continue to live there. According to him, the Government will continue to do everything in its power to ensure security to the people in the area.
Minister of National Development Planning (PPN)/Head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Bambang Brodjonegoro highlighted some achievements on the implementation of the 2014-2019 National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN), mainly in economic growth and inflation control. The average economic growth rate over the past 5 years, according to Bambang, reached around 5%, lower than […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo reminded Government Officials that the focus of the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024 will be on human capital development. “The Government should continue the education reform that has been developed in the past five years to improve the quality of education,” President Jokowi said at a Plenary Cabinet Meeting on […]
The National Civil Service Agency (BKN) has announced that this year the Government is going to recruit 197,111 new civil servants, consisting of 37,854 positions for ministries/ central government institutions and, 159,257 positions for regional governments. “However, the figures are subject to change,” Head of Public Relations Division of the BKN Muhammad Ridwan stated in […]
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo during a Plenary Cabinet Meeting on Thursday (3/10) praised his Cabinet Ministers for their hard work in the last five years. “I would like to extend my gratitude to the Ministers of the Working Cabinet for the hard work in running the Government’s programs,” President Jokowi said.
