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The Asian Development Bank has approved a 500 million USD loan for the Indonesian Government to reform its State-owned enterprises (SOEs).

The Indonesian government has formalised a collaboration with Australian renewable energy company Sun Cable in a bid to create an energy distribution network in the archipelago.

Indonesian Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita has said that the country is targeting to produce 2 million electric motorcycles by 2024.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) opens a global vaccine network for Indonesia's pharmacy industry in Indonesia, the Health Ministry's Secretary General Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha said on September 20.

Indonesia celebrated its Independence Day in its future capital city of Nusantara for the first time on August 17.

The Indonesian Government has set the budget deficit limit at 2.85 - 3% of the gross domestic product (GDP), or 598.2 trillion Rp (40.5 billion USD), for 2023.

The Indonesian Government is planning to tighten its relatively lax regulations on smoking in a bid to curb the increasing number of child smokers in the country.

The Indonesian government is set to temporarily suspend the export of new and renewable energy in order to prioritise domestic demands as the national clean energy mix for electricity is still at 11.7 percent, local media reported.

The World Bank has approved a 224 million USD package for Indonesia’s Mass Transit (MASTRAN) Project.

The Indonesian government has been actively wooing investors at the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, by highlighting the country’s investment potential and holding economic discussions.

Air Products & Chemicals - a multinational industrial gas and chemicals manufacturer headquartered in the US, has carried out the first phase of its investment in projects worth 7 billion USD in Indonesia over the past two years.

The Indonesian Government has extended the visa on arrival (VoA) programme for international travellers from 42 countries arriving at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali province.

The Indonesian government has decided to extend the maximum value added tax (VAT) discount of 50 percent for housing from January 1 to September 30, 2022.

The Indonesian Government has lifted the entry ban on visitors with travel histories from 14 countries in the last two weeks to restore the country's economy.

The Indonesian Government will ban bauxite exports starting this year to spur the domestic downstream sector, the country’s President Joko Widodo has said.

The Philippine House of Representatives has gone into lockdown to curb the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus while Indonesia has reportedly prepared 120,000 hospital beds to cope with outbreaks caused by this new variant.

The Indonesian government on January 3 decided to shorten the quarantine period for arrivals, including those who were from Omicron-hit countries.

The Indonesian government expects GDP growth in the final quarter of 2021 to exceed 5 percent thanks to eased mobility restrictions and a recovering global economy, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

The Indonesian government on December 20 removed the entry ban for travellers from China's Hong Kong ahead of year-end holidays while putting the UK, Norway and Denmark into the travel ban list due to concerns related to Omicron variant in the three countries.

Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani recently revealed six steps to turn Indonesia into a developed nation by 2045.