A number of election officials, including police, KPPS officers (Voting Organizing Groups), witnesses, and election supervisors died while carrying out election-related duties in the 2019 presidential and legislative elections. The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) reported that as of Sunday (21/4), 14 Election supervisors died, 85 were hospitalized, 37 were under ambulatory care, 15 experienced violence, […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called on all Indonesian women to keep reviving national heroine Raden Ajeng Kartini’s spirit (popularly known as Ibu Kartini), a Javanese feminist and women’s rights activist. “To all Indonesian women and mothers of the nation, let’s continue to revive the fighting spirit of Ibu Kartini,” President Jokowi tweeted in his twitter […]

Indonesian women have gone one step further than their sisters in the United States, according to Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung. “Today, dichotomy between men and women does not matter anymore because women can do any jobs/professions as men do,” the Cabinet Secretary said in an interview to commemorate Kartini’s Day, on Sunday (21/4), at his […]

Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (BPN) Sofyan A. Djalil on Friday (19/4) reviewed the location of abandoned land to relocate the 2018 earthquake survivors in Palu, Sigi, and Donggala, Central Sulawesi. The relocation will be carried out by utilizing the 900,000 meter square of former HGU (Building Rights Title) […]

Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto expressed his optimism that Indonesia would see an increase in investment and expansion in manufacturing industry after the 2019 Elections by implementing the Making Indonesia 4.0 road map. “After the 2019 Elections there will be many priority projects that will soon be running, including several petrochemical industries, finalization of regulations […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expressed gratitude to all officers involved in the 2019 simultaneous elections held on Wednesday (17/4). “I would like to thank the 2019 election officials for their hard work and dedication to this year’s election,” President Jokowi wrote through his personal Twitter account @jokowi and his Facebook fanpage on Friday (19/4).

In a bid to attract oil and gas investors to Indonesia, the Government plans to disclose Indonesian oil and gas raw data free of charge to be widely accessible to investors, according to Deputy Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Archandra Tahar. He added that the Government also assures that the disclosure of oil and gas […]

On behalf of the Government, Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo conveyed the message of condolences on the passing of the Indonesian National Police (Polri) officers while carrying out the task of securing the 2019 Simultaneous Elections. “There is a grief behind the success of the 2019 Simultaneous Elections which is recorded as the largest […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has instructed his cabinet ministers and heads of non-ministerial government agencies to immediately follow up on the results of his state visit to Saudi Arabia last week. “First, an additional 10,000 Hajj quota. Second, Saudi Arabia’s plan to boost its investment in Indonesia,” the President said in his introductory remarks before […]

Voter turnout in the Legislative and Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections on Wednesday (17/4) reached 80.90 percent, exceeding the targets set in the 2015-2019 National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) of 77.5 percent, according to Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Wiranto. “This shows that the President-elect will have a high legitimacy,” Wiranto […]