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President stresses on swift synchronization of aid recipient data

President Joko Widodo urged ministries to promptly synchronize data on recipients of the central government’s ...

Women of West Kalimantan's peatland villages produce 10,000 masks

Women members of the Peat Care Villages (DPGs) in West Kalimantan successfully produced 10 thousand cloth masks that ...

Two presidential millennial staff members resign following backlash

Andi Taufan Garuda Putra, among the seven millennial special staff members for President Joko Widodo, announced his ...

Use of village funds prioritized for COVID-19 efforts: official

The Indonesian Government is prioritizing the use of village funds, allocated from state and regional budgets, for ...

Information control in community units, village prevent COVID-19

The Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration (PDTT) mentioned that information ...

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Indonesia builds hospitals, quarantine centers in handling COVID-19

Indonesia's government has expedited efforts to ready emergency hospitals and quarantine centers by constructing ...

Village chiefs urged to ready quarantine centers against COVID-19

Minister of Development of Disadvantaged Regions, Villages, and Transmigration (PDTT) Abdul Halim Iskandar has called ...

Volunteers to become mainstay for countermeasures against COVID-19

Volunteers of the COVID-19 response task force in villages will become the mainstay in the efforts to prevent and ...

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Integrated teams to combat stunting, enhance human resources quality

The Joko Widodo administration has outlined a reduction in the stunting and poverty rates as among the key targets for ...

Government prioritizes efforts to curb stunting, poverty rates

Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto cited reduction in the stunting and poverty rates as among this year's key ...

Minister to revoke budget for villages proven to be fictitious

Finance Minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, stressed that the government would revoke the state budget allocated for ...

Jokowi defines seven orders for new cabinet ministers to follow

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has made an official announcement of the new cabinet line-up for the second-term of his ...

Jokowi announces his cabinet line-up dubbed Indonesia Moving Forward

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) flanked by Vice President Ma'ruf Amin announced his cabinet line-up dubbed Indonesia ...

Bappenas signs MoUs to achieve SDGs target

The National Development Planning Ministry/the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) has signed Memorandums of ...

Annual Budget Speech

Funding to relocate capital city sourced from privates, SOEs

Funding to relocate the capital city in Kalimantan Island will be sourced from the collaboration between private ...