Empowering micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is highly crucial in Indonesia. MSMEs, which serve as the country’s economic backbone and potentially absorb a great number of workers, are expected to play a pivotal role in the country’s economic recovery.

State-owned bank PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BBRI) continues to gain recognition for its committed financing role, with president director Sunarso again named The Best CEO in banking transformation.

All over the world, tourism has ground to a halt because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced countries and tourist destinations to close their borders and limit the number of visitors, respectively, to prevent overcrowding and implement physical distancing.

In the mood for tacos, burritos, quesadillas and nachos? Lucky for you, Jakartans, as Taco Bell is coming to town this month.

Indonesia has stepped up efforts to accelerate 5G transformation in order to enter the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), marked by automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies and processes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has truly turned a lot of people’s lifestyles upside down. The pandemic has given people no choice but to remain stuck at home for the majority of their time.

The Siswa Asuh Sebaya (SAS) peer-support program of the Banyuwangi Education Office has won the Smart, Character-Strengthening Education Office award from the Education and Culture Ministry.

Indonesia is on its way to turning to clean and green energy through massive low-carbon development in response to the global threat of climate change, with state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina taking an active part in the direction. 

As people are now spending more time at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for video streaming, which already makes up at least 80 percent of internet traffic, has drastically increased.

Indonesia has a plastic waste problem that has already been raised in numerous articles and discussions. Plastic waste is currently a global problem and product of our modern lifestyle and industrial society.

As tourism in Banyuwangi regency, East Java, slowly reopens to travelers in the “new normal” era, the regency administration continues to promote its health and safety competence certification program among local tourism-related businesses.

The Banyuwangi regency administration is pushing ahead with both educational and COVID-19 mitigation programs with its most recent move to award scholarships to pandemic-affected students.

The Banyuwangi regency administration in East Java has launched a bank tani (agricultural bank) that allows farmers to get the products they need for their farming activities, ranging from seeds and fertilizers to heavy equipment such as tractors and other farming tools, to improve their welfare when they have no cash ready at hand.

The boom in the startup industry today has prompted PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BRI) to push ahead with its venture capital funding program, marked by the recently agreed cooperation with PT BRI Ventura Investama (BVI).

Indonesia has a plastic waste management issue. The problem was first brought to people’s attention in 2015 by a researcher named Jenna R. Jambeck, whose data showed that Indonesia was the second-biggest plastic waste producer in the world, with 187.2 million tons of plastic trash, second only to China with 262.9 million tons.

Banyuwangi regency in East Java stabilized market prices in October, according to the Jember, East Java, office of Bank Indonesia (BI).

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BRI) was named the Most Resilient BUMN (state-owned enterprise) as the national lender won three prestigious awards in the category of public finance company with assets over Rp 15 trillion at the recent Bisnis Indonesia TOP BUMN Award 2020 "Survive in Crisis: The Most Resilient BUMN 2020".

A favorable investment climate is one of the supporting factors for the success of achieving the production target of 1 million barrels of oil per day (BOPD) and 12 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day (BSCFD) in 2030, which has been set by the Indonesian upstream oil and gas sector.

In the 1970s Batam began to be developed by Pertamina as a logistical and operational base for the oil and gas industry.

The textile and textile products industry has contributed significantly to Indonesia’s economic growth by boosting national foreign exchange reserves and employing a significant share of the country’s workforce.

Many tourism outlets in Indonesia are adapting to new habits of serving their guests amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Banyuwangi regency administration is collaborating with Grab Indonesia to develop the digital economy in the region.

Indonesia’s online travel agency pioneer tiket.com has officially launched Online Ticket Week (OTW) LOKAL, a its grand grand annual discount feast to help boost the domestic tourism industry that has been challenged aamid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Resilience Council (Wantannas) Regional Study Team recently made a working visit to Banyuwangi, East Java, to conduct a study on the poverty data management system carried out by the local administration.

The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic with its devastating social and economic effects has forced business leaders to face their toughest leadership test, as they are challenged to achieve business sustainability so that their company can survive the health crisis.

Bank Indonesia-organized Pagelaran Karya Kreatif Indonesia (KKI) Series 3 or Indonesia’s Creative Creation has ended, with the millennial generation expected to be actively engaged in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as Indonesia’s new economic force.

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Wishnutama Kusubandio has pointed out the importance of understanding the ecosystem of tourism and the creative economy as a whole to create a thriving creative business sector.