The Indonesian government has remained fully focused on enabling cross-border data flows, as it could contribute significantly to the progress of the digital .
Hermono, Ambassador of Indonesia to Malaysia, says he has a special mission in Malaysia – to improve the livelihood of the Indonesian migrant workers who have come here in search of greener pastures.
AFTER falling to its first recession last year since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia’s economic growth is expected to rebound this year.
According to the latest economic outlook from Oxford Economics commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to rebound to a 6% growth in 2021, driven by increases in consumer and infrastructure spending.
Indonesia’s newly-posted ambassador to Malaysia, Hermono (pic), says he remains optimistic about South-East Asia’s largest economy pulling itself out of the economic rut, despite the looming risks.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 (Bernama): Indonesia has called on its Asean (Association of South-East Asian Nations) partners to maximise the benefit of digitalisation to foster faster economic recovery and in overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic.
Indonesian Communication and Informatics Minister Johnny G. Plate said efforts should also be made to help the most vulnerable in order to ensure that no one will be left behind. The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a momentum to accelerate the digitalisation in many parts of the world, including Indonesia and Asean. As the President Joko Widodo has mandated, Indonesia has taken steps to maximise its digital potential through digital transformation initiatives in strategic sectors, namely infrastructure development, technology adoption, digital talent improvement, and the creation of fundamental regulation,” he said in his intervention at the plenary session of the inaugural ASEAN Digital Ministers’ Meeting (ADGMIN1) recently.
Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi (Source: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia has been
chosen by
ASEAN members to lead the ASEAN
Travel Corridor Arrangement Task Force (ATCAF) to discuss with stakeholders on an ASEAN
Travel Corridor Arrangement Framework and its operation
procedures to support
Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi
said on January 21 that the decision was made at the ASEAN
Foreign Ministers Retreat (AMM Retreat) which
was held as an online meeting on the same day.
The task force is expected to complete the work in the first quarter of 2021, Retno
said.
The establishment of a travel corridor among Southeast Asian countries was