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Labor-intensive program to help maintain rural economic growth

Expansion of the labor-intensive program is projected to compensate for the impact of economic slowdown in rural areas ...

Opinion

Stranded far from home: the protection of Indonesian migrant workers

*Hana Naufanita is a research intern at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies ...

Use of village funds prioritized for COVID-19 efforts: official

The Indonesian Government is prioritizing the use of village funds, allocated from state and regional budgets, for ...

Jokowi projects tourism boom in 2021

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has forecast the tourism industry to boom in 2021 after the 2019 novel coronavirus ...

COVID-19 estimated to cause 50-percent drop in tourism revenue

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Wishnutama Kusubandio has forecast a sharp 50 percent drop in foreign exchange ...

Ministry asked to launch labor-intensive program for tourism workers

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has instructed the tourism and creative economy minister to launch a labor-intensive ...

Car sales fall as coronavirus outbreak cuts demand

The automotive sector has been among the worst affected by the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia, with demand for motor ...

Member of Jakarta's mosque congregation tests positive for COVID-19

One of the 186 members of an Islamic congregation at Kebon Jeruk Mosque, Tamansari, West Jakarta, was found to be ...

Indonesian Govt to intensify labor-intensive infrastructure projects

The Indonesian government will intensify manpower-intensive infrastructure projects in different parts of Indonesia to ...

Some 5,047 West Java workers laid off as COVID-19 impact

Some 5,047 workers in West Java were laid off, April 5, after companies in the region were acutely hit by the impact of ...

News Focus

Economic stimulus, social safety get priority as slowdown looms

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, declared by the WHO as a pandemic, has wreaked havoc on the global economy ...

Promoting education services trade in ASEAN proves to be stimulating regional economic growth – says ASEAN-Japan Centre

- Education services is one of three social services1 subject to study by the ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) for promoting ...

ISEI commends govt's measures to mitigate economic impacts of COVID-19

Aldrin Herwany, the West Java coordinator of the Association of Indonesian Economists (ISEI), praised the ...

Toddler being observed in Lampung hospital: COVID-19 task force

Amid ongoing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, a 2.4-year-old infant is hospitalized at a local public hospital in ...

Law enforcement key to handling COVID-19: BNPB

Law enforcement efforts need to made a priority to combat the current coronavirus, or COVID-19, outbreak in the ...