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As the largest archipelagic country on the planet, a healthy marine environment is central to Indonesia’s sustainable development. Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has stated that Indonesia is proud to be in the vanguard of marine protection.

The Directorate of Special Economic Crimes of the Criminal Investigation Division (Bareskrim) of the Indonesian National Police (Polri) has formed a special unit to investigate allegations of health quarantine violations.

Indonesia’s Law and Human Rights Ministry has brought back its free legal aid program for low-income citizens in 2022.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) attended the main event of the 2022 National Press Day commemoration, virtually from the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, Wednesday (2/9/2022).

A communications strategy is used by the Government not only to deliver policies and achievements but also to support work programs. Such is the case with the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) which is developing its own communication strategy to suppress “land mafias” by effectively providing information about agrarian laws to the public.

The Home Ministry directly provides financial management supervision for regional governments that have yet to announce their local government budget (APBD) for the 2022 fiscal year.

The Indonesian Government is currently undergoing major structural transformation, to improve the nation’s competitiveness in a more uncertain and hypercompetitive world.

Indonesian Immigration at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport prevented 170 immigrant workers from leaving the country on Jan. 1-19, 2022. They were denied departure due to incomplete documents, being non-procedural or illegal. “Sixty people were supposed to go to Malaysia and 110 more to other countries,” explained Andika Pandu Kurniawan, Head of Immigration Intelligence and Enforcement at the Soekarno-Hatta Immigration Office

Vice President Ma’ruf Amin has pinpointed the two massive tasks in 2024: mandatory halal certification for all food and beverage (F&B) products and Indonesia’s vision to be the center of the halal product industry worldwide.

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and Singaporean Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen have concluded an agreement to release a joint declaration putting the 2007 MINDEF Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) into force. The DCA was forged at the Leaders’ Retreat meeting attended by Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Bintan Island

IO - To accelerate the return of state collection rights, the Task Force for Handling State Collection Rights for the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI Task Force) started off 2022 by conducting a briefing...