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Indonesia fast tracks COVID-19 vaccine development

Almost every country in the world, including Indonesia, is racing against time to develop a vaccine of its own or ...

Minister: Economic growth in 2021 will hinge on 4 factors

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Tuesday outlined four factors that could help the Indonesian government ...

Minister outlines key steps for locking in growth in 2021

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, ahead of the plenary session of the House of Representatives (DPR), identified ...

BNI posts Rp4.46 trillion net profit

State-owned lender Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) posted a net profit of Rp4.46 trillion in the first half of 2020 owing ...

Indonesia records $9.2-bln balance of payments surplus in Q2

Indonesia recorded a surplus of US$9.2 billion in its balance of payments in the second quarter of 2020 after ...

Jokowi sets 4.5-5.5 percent economic growth target range in 2021

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has set a target range of 4.5-5.5 percent for Indonesia's economic growth rate in ...

Indonesian economy to contract 0.49 percent this year: minister

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, has predicted the Indonesian economy will contract 0.49 ...

West Sumatra witnesses rising trend of COVID-19 cases: task force

West Sumatra is working incessantly to flatten the curve of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the provincial ...

Govt bonds to BI have Rp82.1 trillion transaction worth: government

The Finance Ministry unveiled that the four government bonds issued to Bank Indonesia (BI), under private placement, to ...

JDE Peet’s reports strong half-year 2020 results

A message from Casey Keller, CEO of JDE Peet’s This press release features multimedia. View the full release ...

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Endeavoring for a balance between COVID-19 handling, economy recovery

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) opined that handling of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic must be conducted ...

Indonesia's economy has huge potency to recover from COVID-19: AIIB

The economy of G-20 member Indonesia has huge potency to recover from the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Macroeconomic assumptions in 2021 draft state budget remain optimistic

Macroeconomic assumptions in the 2021 draft state budget would remain optimistic but correspondingly realistic, given ...

State expenditure to leverage crisis-hit economy: Jokowi

State expenditure has become an instrument to leverage the country's economy in the recovery path amid the current ...

Riau companies instructed to not recruit workers from red zones

The Riau provincial government has directed local companies to stop the recruitment of workers from outside the ...