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  • EU Announces Multi-Entry Schengen Visa Arrangement for Indonesian Citizens
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    EU Announces Multi-Entry Schengen Visa Arrangement for Indonesian Citizens

    In a press conference held in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, July 13, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new visa policy that will allow eligible Indonesian citizens to obtain multi-entry Schengen visas with longer validity periods. This marks a significant development in EU–Indonesia relations and is expected to facilitate greater ease of travel for business, tourism, and academic exchange.

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    Indonesia Remains Committed to Driving Energy Efficiency in Industries, Transport, Homes

    Lately, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta has been seeing itself starring in many headlines around the world for the wrong reason: that of being one of the world’s most polluted cities on Earth, at least according to IQAir, a Swiss-based air quality technology company that also operates AirVisual, a real-time air quality information platform.

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    EKONID Hosts Legal Roundtable: Navigating Opportunities and Compliance: Indonesia’s New Import Regulatory Landscape

    EKONID successfully hosted the online roundtable event titled “Navigating Opportunities and Compliance: Indonesia’s New Import Regulatory Landscape” via Zoom Meeting on Thursday, June 27, 2024. The event was aimed at equipping EKONID’s members with a thorough understanding of Ministry of Trade Regulation No. 8 of 2024 (“MoT No. 8/2024”), an import policy issued by the Government of Indonesia on May 17, 2024.

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    Indonesia Plans Billions in Investments in the Water Sector

    Indonesia urgently needs to expand drinking water supply and sewage disposal in cities. The greatest need is in the metropolis of Jakarta.

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    Indonesia's Recycling Industry is Set Up for a Big Boost

    Earlier this year, in January, at a dialogue event on waste management held by the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Vivi Yulaswasti, Deputy for Maritime and Natural Resources at Bappenas, announced that the Ministry had concluded a cross-ministry data interoperability for waste management with two other ministries.

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    Indonesia’s New Health Act Opens Door Further for Investors in the Medical Devices Sector

    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused Indonesia to witness how significantly important and rare some medical devices could become with many countries contesting the procurement of, for example, ventilators and oxygen generators. With 275 million people to protect from the infectious disease and approximately 90% of the medical devices and pharmaceuticals still being imported, the need to become more self-sufficient in the supply of medical devices has never been more apparent.

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    Sea Toll, Maritime Initiatives Continue to Drive Indonesia’s Shipbuilding Sector

    In 2020, the maritime industry contributed 11.3% to Indonesia’s total GDP and is expected to grow up to 12.5% by 2045. Given the extensive scope of Indonesia's maritime sector, its significance extends as a prominent symbol of the nation's strength and sovereignty and will thus continue to be a focus for development, further leveraging the country’s shipbuilding sector.

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    Jakarta-Berlin Strengthen Collaboration on Innovation and Technology

    The Government of DKI Jakarta and the City of Berlin signed a Joint Declaration on Innovation and Technology on September 7, 2023, at the Jakarta Future City Hub in Gambir, Central Jakarta.

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    Return to the Upper-Middle-Income Economy

    With a gross national income (GNI, simplified: income of residents) per capita of USD 4,580, Indonesia has risen again to the upper-middle income economy. This term designates a so-called Lending Group of the World Bank as a rough measure of creditworthiness. The lower limit is USD 4,465. In 2020, Indonesia was declared an upper-middle-income economy for the first time. The archipelago's per capita GNI had nominally increased sevenfold since the end of the Asian crisis at the turn of the millennium. In the corona crisis, Indonesia then fell back into the lower-middle-income economy category.