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Inflation to touch 0.18% in April, Central Bank forecasts

Indonesia's Central Bank (BI) has forecast that Indonesia's inflation rate would rise to 0.18 percent, ...

Jakarta set to extend large-scale social restrictions

The Jakarta provincial government is set to extend large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), which have been implemented ...

Government upbeat about economic stimulus preventing layoffs

The Indonesian government is optimistic that the economic stimulus it has offered to the real sector would be able to ...

Labor-intensive program to help maintain rural economic growth

Expansion of the labor-intensive program is projected to compensate for the impact of economic slowdown in rural areas ...

Singapore's Temasek donates one million masks to Riau Islands

Temasek Foundation International of Singapore has handed over one million masks to Riau Islands Province to help avert ...

Roll out economic stimulus to keep real sector moving: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) urged ministries to ensure that the economic stimulus package is optimally implemented ...

Rupiah strengthens to Rp15,438 per US dollar on Friday morning

The Indonesian rupiah strengthened against the US dollar in the Jakarta interbank market on Friday morning on the back ...

Jokowi projects tourism boom in 2021

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has forecast the tourism industry to boom in 2021 after the 2019 novel coronavirus ...

President prioritizing economic stimulus for MSMEs

President Joko Widodo is giving priority to economic stimulus for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which ...

Slowdown to hurt household, MSME, corporate, financial sectors most

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati predicted the household, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), ...

Indrawati forecasts COVID-19 pandemic to dampen economic growth

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has projected a slowdown in Indonesia's economic growth to 2.3 percent, and ...

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Indonesian Government insists lockdown not an option yet

The question of imposing a nationwide lockdown in Indonesia is continuing to spark debate even as the authorities are ...

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Economic stimulus, social safety get priority as slowdown looms

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, declared by the WHO as a pandemic, has wreaked havoc on the global economy ...

MPR seeks government's attention for groups prone to COVID-19

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Bambang Soesatyo has called on the government to focus on the basic ...

450-VA customers exempted from electricity tariff for three months

The government will not charge electricity tariff from 450-volt-ampere (VA) household customers in April, May, and June ...