News Desk, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday visited Tanah Abang Market in Central Jakarta, meeting with traders and customers in the country's biggest textile trading center and was visibly without a mask during the encounter.
In the brief visit, Jokowi was joined by Jakarta acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono in distributing gifts to market visitors.
Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia will tighten export rules for palm oil from Jan. 1 by allowing less shipments overseas for every tonne sold domestically, to ensure sufficient and affordable cooking oil supply at home, officials said on Friday.
Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic is no longer deemed a major health crisis as on Dec. 30, 2022 the government lifted all the mobility restrictions imposed in 2020 to contain the spread of the disease. To follow up the policy, the home minister has issued an instruction governing the transition of COVID-19 from being a pandemic to being endemic.
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Financial Services Authority or OJK recently announced that the Indonesian capital market wrapped up 2022 on a high note, doing much better than other markets such as Europe and other ASEAN economies.
Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – Member of the Central Sulawesi Regional Representatives Council (DPD) Abdul Rachman Thaha on Tuesday said the issuance of the government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on Job Creation (Cipta Kerja) can lead to the impeachment of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.
Desca Lidya N, Resinta S, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the PeduliLindungi application will be used as an individual health data bank and to see the population's health on the Satu Sehat platform.
Hendro Situmorang, Jakarta – State-Owned Enterprise Minister Erick Thohir said on Monday his office will team up with the State Development Finance Controller and the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, to launch an investigative audit into state-owned companies primarily concerning the management of pension funds.
Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – Commission IX House Legislator from the Democrat Party Lucy Kurniasari expressed her concern against government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on Job Creation. Lucy said that the regulation does not side with the general workers and failed to create legal certainty.
Medan (Detik Sumut) – Bobby Nasution, the mayor of the North Sumatra city of Medan, has stressed that they reject Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) behaviour.
Jakarta – Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation (KASBI) Chairperson Nining Elitos says that Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2022 on the Job Creation Law (Ciptaker) that was recently issued by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is nothing more than a manipulation of the public by the government.
Events of 2022
Indonesia was in the spotlight during the year, hosting the G20 summit on November 17-18 in Bali amid international tensions caused by the war in Ukraine, and friction in the region between the US and China.
Liam Gammon – The calendar will tell you that Indonesia's presidential election is due in February 2024 – but make no mistake, Southeast Asia's biggest democracy is firmly in election season already.
Tiara Aliya Azzahra, Jakarta – The Labour Party has declared that it agrees with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's move to issue Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2022 on the Job Creation Law. The Labour Party views the move as better than revisions to the law being left to the House of Representatives (DPR), which they do not trust.
Zubi Mahrofi, Raka Adji, Jakarta – The number of recipients of the third dose or first booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine reached 68.51 million as of Friday, according to the COVID-19 Handling Task Force
Jakarta – Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation (KASBI) Chairperson Nining Elitos has criticised President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's policy of issuing a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2022 on the Job Creation Law.
Muhammad Aulia & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The National Police claimed on Saturday they had wiped out the notorious East Indonesia Mujahedin which has terrorized civilians in the Central Sulawesi district of Poso and caused headaches for Indonesian security agencies for decades.
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – It is not a New Year's eve celebration without the iconic paper trumpets.
As soon as the clock strikes 00.00 a.m, people – young and old – blow their trumpets with all their might. Its distinctive sound accompanies the loud bangs of fireworks and the crisp firecracker crackles.
Jayapura, Jubi – The Papua Police said the presence of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) remained a frightening threat to residents, especially non-Papuan communities.
"It is still a prominent case in Papua, which needs to be the concern of all parties," said Papua Police chief inspector Gen. Mathius Fakhiri in Jayapura City on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.
Manokwari, Jubi – The Manokwari Police on Saturday, December 24, 2022, arrested AG, a financier of an illegal gold mining in Waserawi, Masni District, Manokwari Regency, West Papua Province. This was stated by the Head of Manokwari Police, Adj. Sr. Come. Parisian Herman Gultom in Manokwari on Thursday, December 29, 2022.
Isabel Esterman – Home to the world's third-largest expanse of tropical forest, the world's fourth-biggest population, and frequently ranked among the world's top 10 greenhouse gas emitters, Indonesia is a country where what happens has a vast effect on global biodiversity and environmental health.
Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Much of the mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs in Indonesia lie outside protected areas, which could thwart efforts at effective marine conservation, a new report shows.
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday removed all remaining measures to control the spread of COVID-19 effective immediately, saying that most of the country's population already has antibodies against the disease.
Jakarta – Saying that the financial distress faced by Indonesia's media industry has reached a disastrous level, Vice President Ma'ruf Amin called for global tech giants to strike a fair deal with local media outlets under a publisher-rights agreement.
Alexander R Arifianto – In 2022, two leading moderate Indonesian Islamic figures, Ahmad Syafii Ma'arif and Azyumardi Azra, passed away. With their departure, Indonesia's Islamic discourse lost two moderate voices.
Jakarta – Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has signed an emergency regulation to replace a controversial job creation law, his ministers said on Friday, legislation that a court had ruled was flawed.
Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) chairman Arsjad Rasjid said on Wednesday that the government needs to pay more attention to its decision to import rice and the impact of deeper price disparity it may bring.
Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – The Indonesian Navy sent hospital-ship KRI Soeharso-990 to bring logistics and to evacuate hundreds of residents and tourists stranded on Bawean Island off the coast of East Java amid bad weather on Thursday.
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – While 2022 saw a reduction in the occurrence of natural disasters, the death toll nonetheless ranked the highest in four years as a result of the deadly Cianjur, West Java, earthquake in November, as authorities promised improved disaster resilience by building on experience learned from this year.
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday inked an emergency regulation on job creation law, about a year after the Constitutional Court declared the so-called omnibus law 'conditionally unconstitutional'.
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo formally annulled the Covid-19 restrictions on Friday, nearly three years after they were imposed in the wake of the pandemic in 2020.
BTV, Serang, Banten – Controversial actress Nikita Mirzani praised judges at the Serang District Court as "honest" after she was acquitted of defamation during a hearing in the Banten capital on Thursday.
Moh. Khory Alfarizi, Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said that the government will accommodate demands voiced by trade unions or workers in a regulation in lieu of law or Perpu on job creation.
Moh. Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia, or KAI, recorded 1,095,714 passengers on long-distance trains during the Christmas and New Year holidays. On December 22-29, KAI served an average of 136,964 passengers per day with a daily seat occupancy rate of 102 percent.
Antara – Translator: Intern/Imaji Lasahido, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police extended the period of the territorial operation on Papua Province under the code name Cartenz Peace Operation 2023 for six months starting from January 1, to June 30, 2023.
Heather Chen – When Indonesia passed controversial amendments to its criminal code earlier this month, one aspect above all others dominated the headlines: the criminalization of sex outside marriage.
Wike D. Herlinda, Jakarta – The government issued a new rule concerning provisions of origin of goods and provisions for issuing documents of origin for goods exported from Indonesia, as a follow-up to the recently ratified Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – General Election Commission (KPU) Chairman Hasyim Asy'ari dismissed media reports alleging that he supports an indirect voting system as misleading, saying in an exclusive interview with BTV news channel on Friday night that his earlier statement has been taken out of context.
Antara, Jakarta – Anti-terrorism expert and filmmaker Noor Huda Ismail said that he involved terror convicts in his filmmaking process to better portray how they got manipulated into joining radical groups.
Jakarta – The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has slammed a move by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to issue Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2022 on the Jobs Law.
The Perppu revokes Law Number 11/2020 on Job Creation that was declared conditionally unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court (MK) last year.
Jakarta – Constitutional law expert Feri Amsari from the Andalas University in Padang believes that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's move to issue a Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) on the Omnibus Law on Job Creation is unconstitutional.
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – What began as a tweet from a National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) climatologist has spiraled into conflicting weather warnings that bamboozled many Greater Jakarta residents.
Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – Ferdy Sambo, the former police general who has admitted to murdering a subordinate, filed a lawsuit against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and National Police Chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo on Thursday to challenge his dismissal.
Apriadi Gunawan, Me – A woman died on Wednesday after becoming trapped in a flood that hit Emplasmen village in Labuhan Batu regency, North Sumatra.
Workers from the local Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and police recovered the woman's body from her home several hours after she was found dead.
Wike D. Herlinda, Jakarta – Starting on New Year's Day, the government is to enact updated export measures that simplify and modernize customs procedures in order to maintain the positive trade performance it achieved and maintained throughout 2022.
The Star, Bogor, West Java – Ten Indonesian universities will survey alimentary resources across the archipelago in the coming year as part of the government's food security program.
Sugeng Hari Suseno, chair of the Matching Fund Food Patriot Consortium, said the food mapping project would be led by the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).
Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia will start its mandatory 35% palm oil biodiesel blending program on Feb. 1, a month later than initially planned, the energy ministry said.
Indonesia will maintain its mandatory 30% palm biodiesel blending, known as the B30 program, throughout January, it said in a statement late Wednesday. The policy has been in place since 2020.
Wamena, Jubi – Thousands of Nduga residents who since 2018 have been displaced in Wamena and several other areas, admit that they are still crying during Christmas and do not feel the peace of Christmas.
Jayapura, Jubi – The face of the capital of Papua Province cannot be separated from the role of Lukas Enembe, Governor of Papua Province for 2014-2023, and the late Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Acub Zainal, Governor of Irian Jaya for 1973-1975.
BTV, Jakarta – The government signaled on Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic is on course to become endemic, in which the disease remains frequent but is limited to certain areas.
Tempo.Co – Imaji Lasahido (Intern), Jakarta – Gadjah Mada University (UGM) is ranked first as the national campus with the most successful proposals and total funding for the Business Cooperation and Creative Invention (Kedaireka) 2022 Matching Fund program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology.