#september 2019

Collection of september 2019 news, found 151 news.

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's poverty rate to touch 11.5 percent amid COVID-19: VP

Indonesia's poverty rate would likely rise to 11.5 percent by 2020-end in the event of no significant flattening of ...

Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

Prumo, bp and Siemens enter into partnership with SPIC on energy projects in Brazil

Prumo, a private Brazilian company controlled by EIG Global Energy Partners, bp and Siemens signed a binding agreement ...

Ministry releases West Kalimantan's 6,901 ha of protected forest area

The Environmental Affairs and Forestry (LHK) Ministry officially issued a decree (SK) on releasing 6,901 hectares of ...

Number of poor in Indonesia swells to 26.42 million amid pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in the number of poor in Indonesia, with the figure reaching 26.42 million in ...

Govt's intervention to curb increase in poor population: Bappenas

Governmental intervention to disburse social assistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic will curb the increase in the poor ...

Bappenas endorses budget planning to lower impacts of COVID-19

The Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (PPN/Bappenas) has encouraged local ...

816 security personnel deployed in Jayapura as precautionary measure

Some 816 police and military personnel are on standby in areas around Jayapura, Papua, as a precautionary measure ...

Seven Papuans tried in Balikpapan are not political prisoners: police

Indonesia's National Police spokesman, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, dismissed a claim that seven Papuan youths, ...

Four drug dealers, couriers in Palembang to serve 13-year imprisonment

The judiciary panel of Palembang City's district court sentenced four drug dealers and couriers to 13 years' ...

Ministry offers 160 free booths for SMEs at ii-Motion expo

The Industry Ministry will offer 160 free booths for small and medium enterprises to participate in the Indonesia ...

Indonesia's shipping costs remain expensive: Jokowi

Indonesia's shipping costs remain expensive, though the government has carried out a sea toll program to reduce the ...

Sea toll road service contributes 0.3 percent to GDP: Jokowi

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has instructed related ministries to intensify the contribution of the sea ...

Poverty still high in Indonesia: Ma'ruf Amin

Indonesia had been considered as a developed country, but the number of poor people and stunting was still high, Vice ...