Through its agrarian reforms and social forestry program, the Government provides land, access to capital, markets, and skills needed to be managed by cooperatives, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Darmin Nasution has said. In addition, cooperatives can be granted ownership rights to land or 35-year management permits for forest areas, he added.

The Government continues to collect the remaining debt of oil and gas company PT Lapindo Brantas Inc (LBI)/Minarak Lapindo Jaya (MLJ) since the debt has exceeded its due date. “The total outstanding of LBI/MLJ are Rp1,763,724,747,342.44 (including debt interest and penalties),” Ministry of Finance’s Director General of State Assets Isa Rachmatarwata  said in Jakarta, Friday […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has finally met with his challenger in the 2019 Presidential Election Prabowo Subianto for the first time since the election. “The meeting with Bapak Prabowo Subianto this morning is a meeting with a best friend,” President Jokowi said at Senayan MRT Station on Saturday (13/07), after riding MRT with Prabowo from […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his challenger in the 2019 Presidential Election Prabowo Subianto will continue to maintain communication and visit each other, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung has said. “There will be more meetings between them with no special terms,” Pramono said in Jakarta, Saturday (13/7).

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his contender Prabowo Subianto on Saturday (13/7) shook hands and hugged each other warmly in a widely anticipated meeting. They met at Jakarta MRT Station in South Jakarta on Saturday (13/7) before riding MRT line.

Student orientation program is expected to strengthen characters of new students in preventing spread of harmful ideologies against Pancasila and the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, Minister of Education and Culture Muhajir Effendy has said. The program is usually held on the first day of school and this year sees first day of […]

Products of Indonesian micro small and medium enterprises (MSME) still have great market potential, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Nevertheless, the President reminded MSMEs players to avoid mass market in their competition and to enter the niche market such as market for handicraft products because Indonesian products will lose the competition with products from […]

The Government has begun the selection process to recruit new members of the State Civil Apparatus Commission (KASN) replacing the existing members whose tenure will end in September. The new member will serve as members of the KASN for the period of 2019-2024. The commission’s main task is to supervise state civil apparatus.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo maintained that he has not received a formal appeal letter for amnesty from Baiq Nuril. Nuril – a non-tenured female teacher at SMAN 7 Mataram senior high school in West Nusa Tenggara – was sentenced to six months in prison and Rp500 million in fines for recording a lewd phone call […]

The Indonesian President-elect Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo ensures the upcoming cabinet will consist of political party members and professionals. “Approximately, the composition is going to be 60:40 or 50:50,” President Jokowi told reporters after attending the opening of the 2019 Karta Kreatif Indonesia (KKI) in Central Jakarta, Friday (12/7).