#august 2020

Collection of august 2020 news, found 156 news.

Slight rise in workers' nominal daily wages in September 2020

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) highlighted a 0.08-percent rise in the nominal daily wage of national farm workers ...

Indonesia's foreign debts recorded at US$413.4 billion in Aug 2020

Indonesia's foreign debt stood at US$413.4 billion, as of August 2020, comprising $203.0 billion of public sector ...

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Race to recover from economic recession

Heavy traffic and the noise from exhaust engines are no longer an urban paradox that bring sustenance to Nahrowi as he ...

Retail sales continue to improve: BI

BI's retail sales survey showed most commodity groups’ retail sales performance continually improving, as ...

Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves in Sept decline to US$135.2b

Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves at the end of September 2020 remained high at US$135.2 billion, albeit ...

BPS confirms 912 Chinese tourists visited North Sulawesi in August

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported that 912 Chinese tourists had visited North Sulawesi Province in Indonesia ...

Indonesia posts 0.05-percent deflation in September 2020

For the third successive month, Indonesia recorded deflation, with the figure for September 2020 reaching 0.05 percent, ...

Foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia increase slightly in Aug 2020

The number of foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia in Aug 2020 reached 164,970, or rose by 4.45 percent, as compared ...

PEN task force outlines Indonesia's economic recovery strategy

The National Economic Recovery and Transformation Task Force (Satgas PEN) on Wednesday described the government’s ...

Government disburses Rp304.6 trillion for handling COVID-19

The government has disbursed Rp304.6 trillion of its Rp695.2-trillion budget for COVID-19 handling and the economic ...

President instructs to apply COVID-19 patient treatment standards

President Joko Widodo gave instructions pertaining to the application of treatment standards for COVID-19 patients at ...

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Domestic economic recovery underway, global economy starts to rebound

The global economy is gradually starting to rebound as economic gains in China and the United States are driving global ...

Sri Mulyani expects economic improvement to shore up tax revenue

Minister of Finance (Menkeu), Sri Mulyani Indrawati, said she expects the improvement in economic performance, ...

Budget deficit reaches 3.05 percent of GDP until August 2020

Indonesia's budget deficit, in the year ending August 31, 2020, reached Rp500.5 trillion, or 3.05 percent of the ...

Accelerated state spending to boost economy: minister

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has assured that accelerated state expenditure realization till the end of 2020 ...