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Tenggara Backgrounder April 17, 2020
POLITICS
Social safety nets, unemployment money face distribution nightmare
The government has set aside trillions of rupiah to fund many social safety net programs to help cushion the impact of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on poor people. But poor administration means that the assistanc...
Ride-hailing policy flip-flop undermines COVID-19 response
The large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to curb COVID-19 transmission in Jakarta has impacted numerous businesses, including ride-hailing apps, whose flagship ojek (motorcycle taxi) services have been largely suspended. Widespread protests and dem...
Skepticism remains a week into PSBB implementation
One week into the implementation of large-scale social restrictions to curb COVID-19 transmission in Jakarta, the country’s epicenter of the health crisis, the measures have not resulted in discernable changes vis-a-vis President Jokowi's order for p...
Why the latest TNI reshuffle matters
Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto recently announced a major reshuffle, which involved hundreds of high-ranking officers. While many perceive the extensive reshuffle as a last-ditch effort to resolve the acute milit...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
The new capital city: Go or no go?
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has been in a public quarrel with two prominent public figures – economist Faisal Basri and former State-Owned Enterprises Ministry secretary Said Didu – over the government’s pla...
Ramadan, pandemic pose double challenge to food security
The Agriculture Ministry has reassured the public about food security ahead of the Ramadan fasting month amid the COVID-19 pandemic, yet people are still worried as prices remain high as a result of rising demand and disruptions in supplies from impo...
Govt might not need to issue ‘pandemic bonds’
The government is granted permission to issue special government debt papers (SBN) to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic – dubbed at first as “recovery bonds” but later change to “pandemic bonds”. However, Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara told Bloombe...
Oil imports up as global oil price halved
The combination of a worldwide economic shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia had depressed oil prices. As recorded by Index Mundi, the Brent crude price went down from an average of $63.6 per barr...
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