Day: January 18, 2022

RI slashes 10.37 million tons of carbon emissions from power plants

Indonesia reduced carbon emissions from its power plants by 10.37 million tons in 2021, according to the Energy and Mineral Resource Ministry. The reduction has reached 210.37 percent of its target set at 4.92 million tons, the ministry’s Director General of Electricity, Rida Mulyana, told the press here on Tuesday.

Economic recovery hinges on govt policy: expert

The implications of government policy are inseparable from the progress of economic recovery, Associate Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Dr. Vu Minh Kuong, has said. “The government plays a crucial role in engineering economic recovery and regrowth,” he stated during a virtual

Ministries invite students to solve problems of community markets

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology and the Ministry of Trade have invited college students to help improve community markets through the Young Drivers of People’s Markets program. “We welcome this cooperation where college students can become the drivers of community markets, which is part of the Merdeka

Indonesia’s trade surplus seen crossing US$35.3 billion in 2022

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has projected that Indonesia’s trade surplus this year will breach the level recorded in 2021, when it was recorded at US$35.3 billion. “If the ban on the export of several commodities does not much disrupt (exports), the trade surplus in 2022 will

National capital relocation to help realize Vision 2045: minister

The relocation of the national capital to East Kalimantan is one of the government’s strategies for realizing Indonesia’s Vision 2045, Minister of National Development Planning (PPN), Suharso Monoarfa, has said. Vision 2045 reflects Indonesia’s aspiration to become a high-income country and join the world’s top five economic powers, Monoarfa, who

President Jokowi urges residents to get booster vaccine doses

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has urged residents to get their COVID-19 booster vaccine to boost the body’s immunity against the disease when the efficacy of the first two vaccine doses starts to decline. “During the pandemic, vaccination is also important. Those who are yet to be vaccinated, go get your