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The General Elections Commission (KPU) invites election organizers from other countries to witness the vote counting in the 2024 elections.

The Finance Ministry (Kemenkeu) has temporarily blocked the budgets of ministries and agencies as part of the automatic adjustment, amounting to Rp50.14 trillion in 2024, per Kompas, Tue (13/2).

Entering the cool-off period before voting day, the Jakarta Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) will carry out cyber patrols in collaboration with the Communications and Information Ministry (Kominfo) to ensure that no party is campaigning on social media, said the agency’s commissioner Quin Pegagan, per Kompas, Mon (12/4).

In total, the national strategic projects (PSNs) are worth Rp1,515.4 trillion. Coordinating Economic Ministry's deputy for coordination of regional development and spatial planning Wahyu Utomo said the 109 projects consist of 10 PSNs in 2017, 32 in 2018, 30 in 2019, 20 in 2020, 24 in 2021, 25 in 2022 and 37 in 2023, per CNN Indonesia, Thu (8/2).

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo issued Presidential Decree (Keppres) 10/2024 on the designation of 2024 elections polling day as a public holiday which will fall on Wednesday, February 14.

Iran has revoked its visa regulations for a number of countries, including Indonesia, on Monday (5/2) which means Indonesian citizens can travel to the country visa-free.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo appointed Home Minister Tito Karnavian as acting coordinating political, legal and security affairs minister to replace Mahfud MD who has just resigned. President Jokowi said Tito was chosen because he is highly experienced in the field.

Indonesian athlete has made another proud achievement. Indonesian tennis player Aldila Sutjiadi successfully won the Thailand Open 2024 women's doubles title with athlete from Japan, Miyu Kato, in Hua Hin, Sunday (4/2).

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo stressed that there are no problems in his administration after Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs who is also a vice-presidential candidate Mahfud MD resigned.

Vice-presidential candidate No 3, Mahfud MD, stated that he would resign from his role as coordinating political, legal and security affairs minister.

PT. Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China (KCIC), the operator of Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway (HSR), popularly known as Whoosh, will start using a different ticketing price scheme.