President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has insructed regional heads to pay attention to disaster risk reduction for development planning in their areas. The President’s directive was read by Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo during the Governor Working Meeting of the Regional Cooperation Forum in Bandung, West Java, Tuesday (26/3).

Ministry of Finance has allocated a total budget of Rp25.59 trillion for the upcoming simultaneous elections on 17 April 2019, or a 61% increase compared to that of the 2014 Elections amounting to Rp15.62 trillion. “We allocated a budget of Rp465.71 billion and Rp9.33 trillion in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2019, we allocate Rp15.79 […]

Ministry of Communication and Informatics has announced it will monitor online political campaign ads during the 2019 Simultaneous Elections’s silence period. “We will filter advertisements, so there should be no political campaign ads carried out by anyone during the silence period because each ad that has been registered and published by the platform will be […]

Attorney General’s Office launches a flagship program named “Jaga Desa” (Guarding Villages) aiming to support village development. The Attorney General’s Office runs the program in collaboration with Ministries and Non-Ministerial Government Institutions. “The Attorney General’s Office and other government institutions aim to support (village apparatus) to achieve high quality development” Junior Attorney General for Intelligence […]

Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo encouraged the public to actively use their voting rights on the upcoming general election on April this year. “The Government has urged people in all regions to support the 2019 election by using their rights to vote and we quite optimistic we can meet the target (of voters),” Tjahjo […]

The Saudi Arabia Government will impose a newly-regulated progressive visa for the prospective Hajj pilgrims and the Regional Hajj Guide Team (TPHD) personnel identified as having been on a hajj before. In response to the progressive visa requirement, Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs has issued Decree of Minister of Religious Affairs Number 140 of 2019 […]

In a bid to implement provisions on Article 74 Law Number 23 of 2014 on Regional Government, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on 13 March 2019 signed Government Regulation Number 13 of 2019 on Regional Government Implemention Report and Evaluation. In that Government Regulation, Regional Government implementation report and evaluation to cover: a. the Regional Government […]

Responding to rumors spreading about the equinox phenomenon, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) urged the public to remain calm and do not have to worry about the equinox effects as mentioned in the rumors. “Equinox is different from heat waves that occur in Europe, Africa and America; when a heat wave occurs, the […]

The Indonesian Government on 18 March 2019 won a lawsuit against Churchill Mining Plc and Planet Mining Pty Ltd. in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitration forum in Washington D.C., the US. In a final and legally binding rule, ICSID Committee’s panel of judges -Dominique Hascher, Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel and Jean Kalicki- […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Sunday (24/3) officially inaugurated the country’s first Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line at Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle in Central Jakarta. In his remarks, the President said that the operation of MRT Jakarta marked the dawn of a new era in Jakarta and also called on the public to adapt to […]