Mardika Parama, Jakarta – A consortium of state-owned and private firms, PT Jogjasolo Marga Makmur, signed a toll road concession agreement (PPJT) with the government on Wednesday to bu

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing (PUPR) Ministry is seeking a budget of Rp 149.8 trillion (US$10.1 billion) for 2021 – a 42.7 percent increase from this year's all

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry and the Public Works and Housing Ministry, in charge of infrastructure projects, have spent less than 50 percent of their respectiv

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inaugurated on Tuesday the Indrapuri-Blang Bintang section of the Sigli-Banda Aceh toll road, the first ever toll road in Aceh p

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Indonesian government should focus on reducing the risks associated with infrastructure projects and prioritize certain types of infrastructure to lure for

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Corruption has become one of the risks to the President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo administration's push to develop Indonesia's infrastructure to help boost economi

Mardika Parama and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – A lack of financing and the country's age-old issues with land acquisition have delayed the development of the government's strateg

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry's State Asset Management Agency (LMAN) has reimbursed Rp 53.3 trillion (US$3.76 billion) owed to state-owned companies for land acqui

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As Indonesia struggles to contain one of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks in Asia, the country's president has quietly issued a new regulation on emine

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The government has vowed to continue the development of national strategic projects during the COVID-19 health crisis with the addition of 89 new projects

Arys Aditya and Harry Suhartono – Indonesia will focus on infrastructure projects and social programs worth $97 billion over the next five years as President Joko Widodo seeks to rescu

Jakarta – With the COVID-19 pandemic having challenged sustainable development in many parts of the world, it is necessary to use the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing (PUPR) Ministry and the Transportation Ministry have had their 2020 budgets slashed by a combined total of Rp 54.8 trillion (US$3

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Projected slower economic growth caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to worsen Indonesia's struggle to promote inclusive development in the c

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Looking toward post-coronavirus economic recovery, the government is to offer six toll road projects with a combined value of Rp 80.5 trillion (US$5.3 billion

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The Public Works and Public Housing Ministry will suspend a number of infrastructure projects following the ministry's decision to reallocate a large part

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry has sped up its cash-funded labor-intensive programs for people in rural areas.

Christopher Ryan – In 2015, The Government of Timor-Leste committed the post-conflict country to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while working closely with the United Nations

Human development index figures are improving in Papuan provinces of Indonesia.

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Friski Riana, Jakarta – Vice President Ma'ruf Amin said the government was seeking solutions to a variety of problems occurring in Papua.

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry has issued a fiscal stimulus to boost economic activities in Indonesia, which have slowed down considerably recently as a result of the d

Adrian Wail Akhlas and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide around US$2.7 billion in loans this year to support Indonesia's human capital, in

Antara, Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry will complete construction on eight major water dams in 2020 as part of the National Strategic Program.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry is set to issue project-linked Sharia sovereign bonds (SBSN) this year to fund the development of 728 projects worth Rp 27.35 trillio

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – For the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, to come to fruition, a collaborative effort involving the private and public sectors is ne

Joao da Cruz Cardoso – Timor-Leste's Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030, commonly referred to as the SDP, aims to make Timor-Leste an upper middle-income country by 2030.

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Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inaugurated three sections of the Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road in East Kalimantan on Tuesday.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – For the first time in its history, Indonesia has made it into the United Nation's high human development category thanks to its improved ranking in the 2018

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister estimates that US$137 billion worth of investment are in the pipeline for infrastructu

Jakarta – Indonesia remains in the group of countries with high human development index despite no gain in ranking, according to a report by the United Nations Development Programme, o

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Indonesia's human development index has moved up to high category for the first time ever after being stuck on the medium category for the last twenty years.

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The government plans to build more than 5,000 kilometers of new roads in the next five years to improve connectivity to seaports, industrial zones, touris

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – A researcher of Papuan studies at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Aisah Putri Budiarti, assessed an approach based on infrastructure often implemen

Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo will officially open a new $128 million bridge in Papua on Monday amid a renewed pledge to develop one of the country's poorest regions, whic

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jayapura – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inaugurated the 732-meter Youtefa Bridge in Jayapura, Papua on Monday on the last leg of his three-day trip to Papua a

Jakarta – On the last day of his three-day visit to the country's easternmost regions, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Wouma Market in Wamena, Jayawijaya regency, Papua and prom

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Indonesia has launched an international aid agency to strengthen its diplomatic relations in the region, but played down the role of Papua-related diplomacy in

Byniniek karmini, Jakarta – In fisherman Saimin's fly-strewn riverside slum, less than an hour's drive from Indonesia's presidential palace, much of the age-old problems President Joko

Jakarta – Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta's approach to the restiv

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Public Housing and Public Works Minister Basuki Hadimuljomo said the government plans to build 2,500 kilometers of toll road within the next five years, or in t

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani urged stakeholders to build more digital infrastructure as the digital economy would play an important role in the country's economic growth.

The Balinese People's Forum to Reject Reclamation (ForBALI) is urging Indonesia's Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) to issue a strict prohibition on infrastr

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – "Next year we will start building a presidential palace in Papua," President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Tuesday morning in front of dozens of Papuan f

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has promised to build a new presidential palace in Papua, despite difficulties to find suitable land for such project.

Jakarta – State-owned construction company PT Hutama Karya is finishing up construction on two toll road sections under the trans-Sumatra project and planning to inaugurate both later

James Massola, Dili – Millions of dollars of Chinese heavy machinery and at least 20 Chinese workers are sitting idle on East Timor's south coast, waiting to resume work on multimillio

Laurentina Barreto Soares, Melbourne – This month, Timor-Leste is in a festive mood, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its independence referendum.

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will continue with his human capital development focus in the first year of his second term as his administration has designe