The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reminded the public to stay alert to the possibility of heavy rains until early May 2019 due to MJO (Madden Julian Oscillation) activity in eastern Indonesia. “This causes several cyclonic circulations in the waters of Sulawesi Sea, northern part of East Java Sea and the Arafura Sea, and […]

There are three candidates that will be chosen as the new capital city and those three candidates can be in Sumatra, Sulawesi, or in Kalimantan, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has said. “We have (more than) 17,000 islands but 57 percent of the populations are concentrated in Java. As a result, the carrying capacity including water, […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on 18 April, 2019 signed  Government Regulation (PP) Number 27 of 2019 on Access Facilitation to Copyright for Persons with Disabilities in Reading and Using Braille Letters, Audio Books, and Other Facilities. The Regulation aims to implement the provisions of Article 44 paragraph (4) of Law Number 28 of 2014 on […]

The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) published investment realization data for the first quarter (January-March) of 2019 with a total investment of Rp195.1 trillion, a 5.3 percent increase over the same period last year (Rp185.3 trillion). “The investment value during the first quarter of 2019 for Domestic Capital Investment (PMDN) amounted to Rp87.2 trillion and Foreign […]

Indonesian Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi along with his staff continued to take efforts so that airfare stays affordable ahead of Eid-al-Fitr. However, the Minister understands that during high season the fare is commonly slightly higher than usual days. “The Government continues to monitor so that there is no violation of the upper limit […]

Minister of National Development Planning (PPN)/Head of National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Bambang Brodjonegoro, at a Limited Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Office, Jakarta, on Monday (29/4), presented three alternatives to move the capital city out of Jakarta. “First, several ministries/institutions remain in Jakarta, around the Presidential Palace and Monas (the National Monument),” Bambang said […]

Minister of National Development Planning (PPN)/Head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Bambang Brodjonegoro disclosed three alternatives for capital city relocation during the Limited Cabinet Meeting on the Follow-up Plan for the Relocation of Capital City, at the President’s office, Jakarta, Monday (29/4). The first alternative is to build a government district in the […]

Ministry of National Development Planning (PPN)/the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) has projected that the State needs Rp323 to 466 trillion to relocate its capital city from Jakarta to a city outside Java Island. Minister of PPN/Head of Bappenas Bambang Brodjonegoro asserted that based on the first scheme in which all state civil apparatus of […]

Moving the national capital city requires careful and detailed preparation, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has said. “We have to talk about the greater, long-term interests of the nation in facing global competition,” President Jokowi said at his remarks at Limited Cabinet Meeting on the Follow-Up Plan for the Transfer of Capital City, at the Presidential […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on 12 April 2019 signed a Government Regulation (PP) Number 25 of 2019 on Implementing Regulation of Law Number 11 of 2014 on Engineering to implement the provisions of Article 5 paragraph (3), Article 8 paragraph (3), Article 17, Article 22, and Article 49 of Law Number 11 of 2014 on […]