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President cautions of food crop sub-sector contracting in Q1 2020

President Joko Widodo expressed concern over the contraction in several sub-sectors, including food crops, thereby ...

Indonesia's economy shrank to 2.97 percent in first quarter: BPS

Indonesia’s economic growth in the first quarter of 2020 contracted to 2.97 percent, from 5.07 percent during the ...

Stability of financial services sector maintained until April: OJK

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) has found the financial services sector stable as of April, 2020, ...

President outlines plan to exempt MSMEs from income tax for six months

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has confirmed a plan to exempt micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with an annual ...

BKF estimates continuing oil price slump could widen budget deficit

The Finance Ministry's Fiscal Policy Agency (BKF) has projected that the continuing drop in global oil prices could ...

APEC faces output loss of US$2.1 trillion owing to COVID-19

The health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic afflicted over two million people globally, with 40 ...

Jokowi to optimize domestic industry for COVID-19 Response

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has outlined four steps to optimize the domestic industry in response to the COVID-19 ...

ASEAN Plus Three will weather COVID-19 crisis, Jokowi assures

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has said he believes ASEAN and partners Japan, China, and South Korea, also known as ...

Badminton player Tontowi Ahmad auctions jersey in COVID-19 fundraiser

Indonesian badminton player, Tontowi Ahmad, and two of his colleagues — Praveen Jordan and Rinov Rivaldy — ...

398 Indonesian crew members from US land at Soekarno-Hatta Airport

Some 398 Indonesian crew members of US cruise ships landed aboard a chartered flight at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport, ...

President Jokowi warns of a possible global economic recession

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has appealed to ministers and regional leaders to formulate measures to stave off the ...

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Global cooperation crucial in fight against COVID-19

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected 209 countries and territories across the world, with 1,529,968 ...

Thohir formulates steps for SOEs to safeguard economy against COVID-19

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir remains committed to safeguarding the resilience of SOEs in facing ...

Xi vows to assist Indonesia to tackle COVID-19 outbreak

Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a telephonic conversation with his Indonesian counterpart President Joko Widodo ...

BI supports the issuance of Perppu No.1 of 2020

Bank Indonesia (BI) supports the issuance of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) No.1 of 2020 as a relaxation ...