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Head of National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Bambang Brodjonegoro, has expressed the need to officially ...

Govt always tries to better protect workers in tobacco industry

The Indonesian government will always try to improve the protection of workers in the cigarette and tobacco industry, ...

Yearender - Indonesia`s homework on workers` migration

The United Nations (UN) has designated December 18 as the International Migrant Workers Day, when the international ...

Indonesian unemployment rate down in 2016

The Indonesia Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said in August, 2016, the country had 7.03 million jobless people ...

Minister upholds ban on domestic worker placement in Middle East

The ban on sending domestic workers to the Middle East will not be lifted, Manpower Minister Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri ...

Tax amnesty must also target tax dodgers at home

The government has submitted a proposal of a draft law on tax amnesty to the House of Representatives (DPR) aimed at ...

Urbanization gives rise to social problems

The influx of new migrants seeking employment in cities usually gives rise to social problems if the existing ...

Economic growth only oriented to GDP: Indef

The Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) said Indonesias economy was weak because the countrys ...

RI, Taiwan form joint task force to help migrant workers

Indonesia and Taiwan have agreed to set up a joint task force to assist migrant Indonesian workers in Taiwan. ...

RI ready to evacuate workers from S Korea

The Indonesian government is ready to evacuate 30,000 workers from South Korea, following the escalating tensions in ...

ADB cuts 2012 growth forecast for Indonesia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cut its economic growth forecast for Indonesia from 6.4 percent to 6.3 percent ...

RI`s high economic growth may not benefit common people

A high economic growth of 6.8 percent, set as a target in the 2013 draft state budget, will not necessarily make the ...

Iindonesia calls for UN peacemaking forces in Syria

Muslim-majority countries that are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will meet in Mecca, Saudi ...

Govt predicts unemployment to decrease to 5.8 percent in 2013

The government has targeted to reduce the country`s unemployment rate to 5.8-6.1 percent in 2013, from 6.32 percent - ...

29 Indonesian workers repatriated from Syria

The Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) repatriated another 29 workers ...