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President upbeat about social assistance boosting purchasing power

President Joko Widodo is optimistic that the government's social assistance programs would increase the ...

Ambassadors must prioritize cooperation, intensify economic diplomacy

Ambassadors are urged to not solely focus on cooperation in the political and security fields but also deepen economic ...

Government urged to increase social assistance budget, recipients

Center of Reform on Economics (CORE) Indonesia economist Muhammad Ishak Razak urged the government to increase the ...

Indef urges government to direct greater attention to COVID-19 control

The Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF) has called on the government to focus more on ...

Indef lays greater weightage to social distancing over lockdown

Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) Executive Director Tauhid Ahmad believes that the social ...

Indef asks firms to allocate CSR funds for coronavirus fight

The Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) has appealed to national companies, particularly ...

Ma'ruf Amin, JK and Sri Mulyani practice corona greetings

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, former vice president Jusuf Kalla and Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani practiced corona ...

BI to intensify digitalization of MSME payment system

Bank Indonesia (BI) will boost digitalization of the payment system for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) ...

SOEs to partake in bidding to manufacture 1,050 train cars

State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister Erick Thohir confirmed that several Indonesian SOEs operating in the railroad ...

Indonesia, Bangladesh review cooperation on power plant development

The governments of Indonesia and Bangladesh are assessing their cooperation agreement to construct a power plant in ...

US unilateral decision may affect Indonesia's current account

The United States (U.S.) government's unilateral decision to exclude Indonesia from the list of developing nations ...

Covid-19 outbreak corrects Indonesia's economic growth of 0.29%

The outbreak of COVID-19 will correct Indonesia's economic growth by up to 0.29 percent in 2020, a researcher at ...

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 ...

Japan’s Friendship Ties Programs JENESYS 2019 ASEAN inbound program 23rd batch

- 131 university students who will be a future leader from ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, ...

Former finance minister J. B. Sumarlin passes away

J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesia's former finance minister for the 1988-1993 term, breathed his last at the age of 87 at ...