The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today approved 11 texts on a range of topics, from the development of women to tax cooperation, with votes on operative paragraphs, amendments and entire drafts, as it concluded its seventy-seventh session. One of the resolutions approved today without a vote was on “Women

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati noted that realization of the regular social protection (perlinsos) budget had reached Rp333.8 trillion as of October 31, 2022. “Perlinsos is still a safety net for our economy and the community. The realization might not change much from the previous month,” the minister noted at

Indonesia’s National Food Agency (NFA) Head Arief Prasetyo Adi spotlighted the importance of embracing the Indonesian Rice Millers and Entrepreneurs Association (Perpadi) to help boost the government’s rice reserve stocks. To this end, collaborating with Perpadi is indispensable, as rice millers are projected to have a total rice stock inventory