Jokowi asks ministers to escort private investment

Jakarta (ANTARA News) – President Joko Widodo has asked the ministers in the Working Cabinet to help attract and then handhold private investments in the infrastructure sector to develop the national economy. “Infrastructure development shouldnt depend...

Attorney General to Meet Yudhoyono over Munir`s Case

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said he is planning to meet the sixth president of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) over the Fact-Finding Team (TPF) documents of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib’s murder....

BI Expects Higher Economic Growth in 2017

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesian central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI), expects the economic growth of the country to be higher than the assumed 5.1 percent in 2017. The growth assumption was made in the Draft 2017 State Budget, recently approved by the government and...