The administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla shows their seriousness to shift development focus from infrastructure to human capital as it allocates Rp492.555 trillion for education sector in the 2019 State Budget. Appendix 19 of Presidential Regulation Number 129 of 2018 on the Details of the 2019 State Budget signed […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo launched the One Map Policy Geoportal and the National Infrastructure Progress Book, at the Bidakara Hotel, Jakarta, Tuesday (11/12). In his remarks, the President said that the more he went to the field, the more he knew and realized that in Indonesia there was too much overlapping  land-use. For example, in […]

The Government continues to conduct a joint operation to rescue victims of the shooting incident in Nduga Regency, Papua Province, both at the shooting scene and the surrounding areas, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Wiranto has said. “We continue to carry out the rescue operation, both at the scene and the surrounding […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, accompanied by Minister of State Secretary Pratikno, and Minister of Education and Culture Muhadjir Effendy, received representatives of artists and cultural experts, at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Tuesday (11/12). In that meeting, President Jokowi expected to hear opinions, discuss, and receive inputs from the artists and cultural experts on cultural […]

In a bid to follow-up the launching of One Map Policy Geoportal, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo instructed ministries/institutions to add more thematic maps in order to address the issue of overlapping land-use in the country. “Use the Overlapping Indicative Map of Thematic Geospatial Information (IGT) to resolve overlapping land-use,” President Jokowi said in his remarks […]

Towards the closing of Budget Year 2018, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati reported that 2018 was not an easy year due to the highly dynamic global economic turmoil. She added that until the third quarter, economic growth reached 5.17 percent, with inflation maintained at 3.2 percent from the assumption of 3.5 percent. The exchange […]

The Indonesian Government once again showed a joint commitment to fight against corruption in the country. A number of Working Cabinet Minister and leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Tuesday (11/12) in Jakarta signed the Commitment to Anti-Corruption Education Implementation for Elementary, Secondary and High Education Levels at the National Coordination Meeting on […]

Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo ensured that the residents’ database is not breached and the findings of a sack of electronic resident identity cards (e-KTP) in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta does not affect the database because the perpetrators only sell blank e-KTPs and they do not have any access to the database. “The blank […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said that in the complexity of thought and ideas, the potential for conflict is also getting higher. However, according to the President, opportunities for tolerance and collaboration synergy are also always wide open. To deal with those complexities, the President asked people to maintain Indonesian civilization and tolerance, as well as […]

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, on Monday (10/12) at the State Palace, officially inaugurated Wan Thamrin Hasyim as Governor of Riau for rest of 2014-2019 term and Rohidin Mersyah as Governor of Bengkulu for rest of 2016-2021 term, at the State Palace, Jakarta, on Monday (10/12). The two newly-inaugurated governors previously served as acting governors in […]