According to the latest data issued by the Statistics Indonesia (BPS), the annual inflation totaled 4.69 percent in August 2022, a slight decline from 4.94 percent in July.

The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry is considering the possibility of extending the time for proposing teacher formations through the path of the government employees with work agreements (PPPK).

Local governments need to speed up the budget disbursement so that the budget spending can support the real sector which has been sluggish in recent months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have devastated the world economy.

Local governments exist for no other purpose than to assist the central government in providing public services.