The Indonesian Government has allocated a social protection budget of Rp427.5 trillion in the 2022 draft State Budget (APBN) to help the poor and the vulnerable meet their basic needs. “In the long term, (the budget) is expected to be able to cut the chain of poverty,” President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said in his
The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) has said it will focus on completing first-level discussions on seven bills during the First Sitting Period of the 2021-2022 Sitting Year. The House Speaker, Puan Maharani, said that the House is committed to assisting the state administration, even amid the pandemic. She delivered the
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said he will focus on controlling the COVID-19 transmission rate in 2022 by encouraging the implementation of health protocols, detection of cases, and vaccinations. In the 2022 State Budget draft, the government has allocated Rp255.3 trillion for the health sector, or 9.4 percent of
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has stressed the importance of shifting to new and renewable energy and accelerating a green technology-based economy to spur national economic growth. “Transformation towards new and renewable energy as well as acceleration of green technology-based economy will become a crucial change in our economy,” he noted
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has assured that the health budget will be allocated uniformly to each region because it does not just rely on the state budget (APBN), but also the regional budget (APBD). “The actual funds in the Ministry of Health for health spending are smaller than the
Indonesia’s foreign debt fell 0.1 percent to US$415.1 billion in the second quarter of 2021 from US$415.3 billion the previous quarter, Bank Indonesia (BI) reported on Monday. The growth of foreign debt also slowed to 1.9 percent year-on-year (yoy) in the second quarter of 2021 from 7.2 percent yoy in