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Roll out economic stimulus to keep real sector moving: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) urged ministries to ensure that the economic stimulus package is optimally implemented ...

Rupiah strengthens to Rp15,438 per US dollar on Friday morning

The Indonesian rupiah strengthened against the US dollar in the Jakarta interbank market on Friday morning on the back ...

Jokowi projects tourism boom in 2021

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

APEC highlights significance of multilateral cooperation in COVID-19

Multilateral cooperation, including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), safeguards countries worldwide in ...

President prioritizing economic stimulus for MSMEs

President Joko Widodo is giving priority to economic stimulus for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which ...

APEC members offer fiscal support to SMEs amid COVID-19 pandemic

All 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have responded to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 ...

Disbursal of COVID-19 social assistance to be right on target

President Joko Widodo emphasized that social assistance to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic should be ...

ADB projects economic slowdown in Indonesia in 2020 over COVID-19

The latest Asian Development Bank (ADB) report projects that Indonesia’s economy will slow down or only record a ...

Slowdown to hurt household, MSME, corporate, financial sectors most

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati predicted the household, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), ...

Indrawati forecasts COVID-19 pandemic to dampen economic growth

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has projected a slowdown in Indonesia's economic growth to 2.3 percent, and ...

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Indonesian Government insists lockdown not an option yet

The question of imposing a nationwide lockdown in Indonesia is continuing to spark debate even as the authorities are ...

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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 ...

COVID-19 fallout: Indonesia increases budget spending by $24.8 billion

Indonesia has decided to increase the state budgetary spending for 2020 by Rp405.1 trillion (US$24.8 billion) to deal ...

MPR seeks government's attention for groups prone to COVID-19

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Bambang Soesatyo has called on the government to focus on the basic ...

450-VA customers exempted from electricity tariff for three months

The government will not charge electricity tariff from 450-volt-ampere (VA) household customers in April, May, and June ...