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New employment opportunities should increase in 2021: Finance Ministry

Finance Ministry’s Fiscal Policy Agency Head, Febrio Nathan Kacaribu, highlighted the urgency to increase the ...

Indonesia can clock seven-percent economic growth in Q3: Ministry

The Finance Ministry has projected Indonesia's economy to grow by up to seven percent in the third quarter (Q3) of ...

APEC lays basis for sustainable fiscal management to drive recovery

Finance and central bank deputies from 21 APEC member economies are laying the groundwork for sustainable fiscal ...

Govt relying on vaccine drive, economic stimulus to script recovery

- has also relaxed the loan to value (LTV) ratio for motor vehicles and housing loans for the period from March to ...

President stresses on simultaneous handling of health, economic issues

Indonesian President Joko Widodo laid emphasis on the concomitant handling of health and economic ...

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Social security program seeks to address poverty challenge

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has triggered a global economic crisis, is posing a real challenge to many countries, ...

Policy synergy to support national economic recovery: AMRO report

The economy of Indonesia remains resilient amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2020 Annual Consultation ...

Economic recovery program rescued five million people from poverty

The national economic recovery program (PEN), especially social protection in 2020, rescued over five million people ...

Economic recovery trend to continue in 2021: finance ministry

The Finance Ministry has forecast that the positive trend in economic recovery seen in the fourth quarter of 2020 will ...

Cigarette production projected to decrease by 3.3 percent in 2021

Cigarette production is estimated to decline by 3.3 percent in 2021 after the government raised the excise rate on ...

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Expediting Indonesia's economic recovery process

Global economic activity will continue to increase, as various countries roll out COVID-19 vaccinations, coupled with ...

BPPT exhorts government to accelerate development of biofuel

The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) pressed for the government to speed up the ...

Job creation law to create quality employment: Hartarto

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, has said the job creation law would help create quality ...

Economic recovery challenging for government in Q4-2020 and 2021

The government is faced with the challenge of bringing about full economic recovery amid pressures from the COVID-19 ...

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Government convinced Job Creation Law will boost public welfare

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) finally signed the Job Creation Bill on November 2, 2020, officially making it Law ...