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One Million Houses Program: Over 164,000 homes built in Q1

A total of 164,071 homes were built in the first quarter of 2021 under the One Million Houses program, according to the ...

Global youth problem-solvers announced as winners of Mary Kay Inc.-sponsored NFTE World Series of Innovation Challenge

Mary Kay Inc., a leading corporate advocate of women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship, announced today the top ...

Zynga teams up with Girls Who Code to help raise awareness and support for women in tech

Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced that it has teamed up with ...

DPD speaker cautions of impact of COVID-19 on child poverty

Speaker of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) A. A. LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti cautioned the government of ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Number of poor Indonesians rose by 2.76 million amid pandemic

The number of Indonesians living in poverty rose by 2.76 million to reach 27.55 million of the population in September ...

Local governments should run more labor-intensive programs: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has urged the regional governments to have in place more labor-intensive programs to ...

COVID-19 hinders Indonesia's One Million Houses Program: VP

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin drew attention to the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic had hindered the implementation of ...

Indonesia's economic growth in 2020 above average : expert staff

Indonesia's economic growth in 2020, which contracted by 2.07 percent (yoy), was above the global average, ...

Public Works Ministry to build 9,799 flats this year

The Ministry of Public Works and People's Housing plans to build 9,799 flats across Indonesia at a cost of Rp4.16 ...

Affordability challenges realization of food resilience in Indonesia

Affordability is one of the challenges in achieving food resilience in Indonesia, considering the higher rate of ...

One million houses program missed target owing to pandemic: VP

The target for the one million houses program for 2020 was not achieved in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according ...

President Jokowi calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for every country. He ...

G20 approve debt relief extension till mid-2021: Sri Mulyani

The Group of Twenty (G20), comprising 20 of the largest economies in the world, have agreed to extend their debt ...