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Government urged to increase social assistance budget, recipients

Center of Reform on Economics (CORE) Indonesia economist Muhammad Ishak Razak urged the government to increase the ...

23,000 COVID-19 affected in Bogor city get cash transfers

As many as 23,000 families severely impacted by the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak have received cash ...

Minister calls women as Indonesia's strength in fight against COVID-19

Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati, better known as Bintang Puspayoga, ...

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 ...

Indonesian Govt to intensify labor-intensive infrastructure projects

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

Government to distribute COVID-19 testing PCR machines to 11 provinces

The Indonesian government has imported 20 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) laboratory test machines from Roche, ...

Legislator urges government to fund evacuation of stranded Indonesians

A legislator urged the Indonesian government to offer contingency funds to finance the evacuation of Indonesian migrant ...

Greater Jakarta's middle-, lower-class segments to receive food aid

The Finance Ministry confirmed that the middle and lower classes in Greater Jakarta or Jabodetabek will receive central ...

Social assistance for economically vulnerable groups amid COVID-19

The Social Affairs Ministry has readied special social assistance for economically vulnerable groups impacted by the ...

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Waging war against an invisible enemy

Indonesia is currently battling an invisible, fast-moving enemy called the novel coronavirus, which has infected more ...

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 ...

Jakarta increases budget to contain COVID-19 outbreak

The Jakarta provincial government has stepped up the allocation of unpredicted budget fund by Rp2 trillion to Rp3.032 ...

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 ...

COVID-19: Jakarta governor orders identification of vulnerable groups

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has directed all chiefs of neighborhood associations (RT) and community units (RW), as ...

Global leaders pledge to contribute $4 billion for COVID-19 vaccine

World leaders committed to contributing at least US$4 billion to expedite COVID-19 vaccine and anti-virus developments, ...