Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has said the government will not be opening recruitment for regular civil servant candidates (CPNS) in 2020 and

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo said the government has started to consider the removal of state institutions or commissions in ord

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The government has been making adjustments in various sectors of the bureaucracy – including by relying more on the use of advanced technology – to prepare for

Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has said he is formulating a strategy to reduce the number of unproductive civil servants amid the current work-

Antara, Jakarta – Civil servants in Dayun Sub-district, Siak District, Riau Province, have begun wearing a distance-sensor device around their neck to maintain physical distancing at t

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucracy Reforms Minister Tjahjo Kumolo said all government institutions will devise new systems to ensure uninterrupted public service d

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The central government has warned civil servants that they face sanctions should they participate in this year's Idul Fitri mudik (exodus), now that the

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Jakarta – The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry has allowed civil servants to work from home for two weeks in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (CO

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir has denied accusations that he is giving out positions based on politics to supervise state-owned flag carrier Gar

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform has commenced listing the names of civil servants (PNS) who are willing to move to the new capital city i

Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has called on the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) to conduct a large-scale audit on every state-owned insurance and p

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry named on Monday prominent banker Zulkifli Zaini as the new president director of state electricity firm PLN, a posit

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, appears to be taking side with Pertamina Chief Commissioner Basuki "Ahok"

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's State-Owned Enterprises Ministry is looking to streamline operations, with the objective of slashing bureaucratic red tape and restructurin

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Minister of State-owned Enterprises (SOE), Erick Thohir, said his office would deactivate four other directors of flag carrier Garuda Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Finance Ministry will transfer 112 echelon III and IV officials holding "structural" jobs at the ministry's Fiscal Policy Agency (BKF) as part of a program to improve eff

Antara, Jakarta – New State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir has said he would drop a plan by his predecessor Rini Soemarno to establish a super holding company for state-contro

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said the government will replace top civil service positions with artificial intelligence, instructing ministers to rem

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Commissioner of Indonesian Ombudsman, Adrianus Meliala, warned the government about its newly-launched website dubbed aduanasn.id, a complaint portal th

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned oil company Pertamina inaugurated on Monday former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama as its new president commissioner.

Eko Wahyudi & Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – State gas and oil company Pertamina held a general shareholders' meeting (RUPS) at State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Ministry today on

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, has made a comeback to public office, more than two years after he was convict

Aloysius Unditu – Former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, best known as Ahok, has been named the new president commissioner of Indonesian state energy giant PT Pertamina, spark

Jakarta – In an era in which much work and communication can be conducted online, Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has agreed to civil servants being allow

Shotaro Tani and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the former governor of Jakarta who was jailed for blasphemy, looks set to take on the role of president commissioner a

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, is set to make a comeback to public office, more than two years after he was c

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gave his blessing on Thursday to former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama to return to pub

Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – The communication and informatics ministry (Kominfo) initiated a partnership with 10 state-ministries and agencies to launch the aduanasn.id, a website that enab

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) said that President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) decision to form a ministry that specifica

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Civil servants who have been exposed to radicalism should resign, Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo stated after learning that a civil servant was a supporter

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo would give a sanction for state apparatus who were absent on the first day of work after 2019 Eid or Lebaran holiday, June 10

Deden Abdul Aziz (Contributor), Jakarta – The West Java Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) announces that it will closely monitor social media accounts owned by Indonesian state civ

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says there are 1,466 state civil servants (PNS) who have been proven guilty of corruption but have yet to be dismissed.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – As part of bureaucratic reform efforts, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to start "rightsizing" th

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has telegraphed his intension to create new ministries covering exports and investment in response to poor performances in the two sectors, but

Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo says his ministry never issued a policy restricting any government offices from holding conferences and meetings at hotels, but he advised they be

Jakarta – About 200 Bekasi public servants in West Java wore neon-green and orange vests during morning roll call on Monday as a form of punishment for committing various violations.

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo once again warned ministers and local government leaders on Tuesday not to excessively issue regulations.

Dias Prasongko, Jakarta – The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry stated that the pass rate of the 2018 civil servant hopefuls (CPNS) test is at a lowly 10 percent.

For many of the religiously devout, servitude to God is more important than fulfilling their earthly duties.

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The government is encouraging people with disabilities to apply for this year's civil-service enrollment test as more ministries have opened up opportuniti

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesian professionals living overseas will soon be able to work in ministries and state institutions without having to apply as civil servants, a sc

While the five daily prayers are a fundamental pillar of Islam, there are certainly some Muslims who choose not to do all of them, all of the time, for whatever personal reasons.

Anton Hermansyah, Bogor, West Java – Several regents have asked that the central government lift the moratorium on civil service recruitment, saying that they needed to recruit civil se

Jakarta – The national antigraft agency organized a forum on the perils of the double role assumed by civil servants employed by state-owned enterprises, inviting the Ombudsman of the Republic of I

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Lawmakers on Wednesday slammed the government's proposals to reduce the number of civil servants, insisting there were better ways to cut spending.

Severianus Endi, Fadli, Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta/Pontianak/Batam/Jayapura – The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry's proposals to reduce the number of civil servants has sparked a f

Paulina Quintao – The Indonesian Government has agreed to pay about 3,000 former Timorese civil servants who worked during the occupation and are still owed money for benefits.

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