Nadiem Makarim, the CEO and founder of local tech titan Gojek, says he has formally accepted a role within the government and will resign from the company he started.
Politics
Movements have been fragmented and divided into thematic silos that make it hard to get across a coherent message with little crossover and cooperation.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has been sworn in for another term, six months after his resounding election victory. The 58-year-old president has pledged to make Indonesia one of the world’s top economies within 25 years.
KPU of Indonesia visited ITB to initiate a cooperation in development of electronic-based vote counting system for Simultaneous Regional Elections 2020.
Attacks on senior officials in Indonesia are very rare, though terrorist attacks on police are common. Protection proved to be disturbingly lax – the stabber got right up to the door of Wiranto’s car. The weapon was a knife, not a bomb or a gun.
“Don’t let democracy be in the hands of elites,” said Jokowi. “Democracy must be held by the people.”
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo remarked that the speed of service is the key to bureaucratic reform as one of the national priorities agenda for his next term during his speech in the Indonesia Vision event last July in Bogor, West Java.
Wang Jen-shu, the first ambassador to Indonesia of the People’s Republic of China, spent a troubled couple of years as Beijing’s man in Jakarta in the early 1950s.
