Day: September 15, 2022

Minister prescribes factory sharing for improving MSME product quality

Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Teten Masduki has asked the private sector to participate in building ‘sharing factories’ to help micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) meet industrial standards. With access to their industrial production technology, MSMEs will be able to boost the quality of their products,

All legal products must be based on Pancasila: Mahfud MD

The state ideology Pancasila, as the philosophy of the nation and the source of all laws, must serve as the basis for the enactment of legal products in Indonesia. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD made the remarks while delivering the keynote speech on the second day of

East Java: KPK summons 5 Bappeda chiefs over bribery case

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has summoned the chiefs of the Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) of five districts in East Java for questioning as witnesses in a bribery case. They will be questioned in the case involving BS, the chief of the East Java Provincial Finance and Asset Management Board

Palm oil price down 10% yoy in Aug: BPS

The price of palm oil declined by a sharp 10.15 percent in August 2022 compared to the year-ago period, Deputy for Distribution Statistics and Services at Statistics Indonesia (BPS) Setianto informed on Thursday. “The prices of several commodities at the global level are lower than in the past few months. One of

Minister urges private parties to build partnerships to support MSMEs

Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Minister Teten Masduki called on private parties to continue building partnerships to boost the capacity of MSMEs and support them to level up. Masduki deems this necessary, as the World Bank has warned to provide quality employment since 97 percent of the jobs

Health Ministry seeking to purchase Indovac, Inavac vaccines in 2023

The Health Ministry will propose a budget for procuring the domestically produced Inavac and Indovac COVID-19 vaccines in 2023 to fulfill the community’s needs, especially for booster vaccinations. Currently, the Indovac vaccine produced by state-owned pharmaceutical firm PT Bio Farma and the Inavac vaccine manufactured by PT Biotis Pharmaceuticals Indonesia