“COVID-19 presents the greatest global challenge in our lifetime. It has caused unprecedented health and economic distress for countries across the globe and severely impacted our region,” write Josh Frydenberg and Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expressed appreciation to the innovators and founders of the country’s financial technology industry as they have made a positive contribution to the national economy and increase the people’s access to financial services.
PAIR researchers are analysing South Sulawesi’s seaweed industry to better understand its drivers, value chain, impact on over 35,000 coastal households, and effects of COVID-19.
According to McKinsey, Indonesia has the potential to increase its economic productivity through digitization by US$121 billion by 2025.
Indonesia fell into recession for the first time in more than 20 years in the third quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic battered consumption and business activity in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, official data showed on Thursday.
Rather than drafting and implementing further off-the-shelf corruption eradication programs that do not take political realities on the ground into account, a fundamental re-thinking of how corruption is perceived and fought is needed.
Tourism: The Indonesian government has put together a plan to bring together nine state-run companies, including flag air carrier Garuda Indonesia and companies that run major tourism sites under a holding company.
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta will increase minimum wages next year for select businesses despite a government advisory to keep pay unchanged to avoid further job losses during the pandemic.
Former Indonesian Finance Minister Chatib Basri weighs in on the country’s controversial labour law reforms, the challenges he faced wooing investors and the scourge of underemployment.
As President Jokowi concluded his first year of term two, he finds himself having made progress on deregulation to attract foreign investment, Read more
Thousands of students and members of labor unions took to the streets again on Tuesday to continue voicing opposition to the newly Read more
Indonesia has an issue as far as meeting the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution go. The quickly evolving landscape and potential demands on the country’s workforce is shaping into a real concern.
A look at some of the challenges that startups in the online education sector will need to overcome, as well as the solutions that some companies are employing.
Singapore and Indonesia have agreed to set up a reciprocal green lane (RGL) for essential business and official travel between both countries.
The highly contentious omnibus bill on job creation (RUU Cipta Kerja) has just been passed into law by the House of Representatives (DPR). In response, mass demonstrations have erupted in Jakarta and across the regions, with more than a thousand protestors arrested and hundreds wounded so far.
