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Race to recover from economic recession

Heavy traffic and the noise from exhaust engines are no longer an urban paradox that bring sustenance to Nahrowi as he ...

LIPI promotes mushrooms as alternative nutritious food

UNESCO Category II Center, in collaboration with the Bogor District Food Security Service. Edible mushrooms contain ...

Manpower Minister launches employment opportunity expansion program

Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah has launched a program to develop and expand employment opportunities through the Social ...

Pandemic weighed on PLN cash flows: minister

The COVID-19 pandemic has weighed on the cash flows of state electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) by ...

Some 300 residents employed in Bogor-Sukabumi railway line project

The Transportation Ministry has recruited at least 300 local people to support the Bogor-Sukabumi double-track railway ...

Focusing on distributing social assistance funds: PEN task force

Chairman of the National Economic Recovery and Transformation Task Force (Satgas PEN), Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said the ...

Need to expedite provision of direct cash assistance: President

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has urged that the distribution of all direct cash social assistance to the public be ...

Home improvement program absorbs 236,689 workers until September

The government program for home improvement and re-construction or called the Self-help Housing Stimulant Assistance ...

Government disburses Rp5.84 trillion in wage subsidy in two tranches

The Indonesian government has so far distributed Rp5.84 trillion in wage subsidy, in two tranches, to 4.87 million ...

State spending in draft 2021 state budget increases Rp2.5 trillion

The government raised the targeted state spending for 2021 by Rp2.5 trillion to Rp2,750 trillion, from the ...

Economist pushes three agendas in COVID-19 related expenditures

Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) senior economist Fadhil Hasan pushed three agendas in ...

Govt to extend aid distribution for low-wage workforce until Q2-2021

The government has planned to extend the disbursement of aid until the second quarter (Q2) of 2021 for formal workers, ...

Improvement in retail sales in July despite contractionary phase: BI

Retail sales continued improving despite a contractionary phase, reflected in the Real Sales Index (IPR) from July 2020 ...

Indef sees poverty rate rising to 10.34% in September

The Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) has predicted that Indonesia's poverty rate may rise ...

Indonesia adds 2,306 recoveries, tally reaches 142,958

Indonesia's Task Force for COVID-19 Response on Tuesday reported that 2,306 COVID-19 patients recovered in the last ...