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Tenggara Backgrounder May 15, 2020
POLITICS
Govt looks to ease lockdown even as COVID-19 infection rate spikes
The government is coming under strong pressure to ease the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), Indonesia’s minimalist version of a lockdown, even as the rate of infection of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is starting to spike.
Public transport operations resume amid opposition
Following its claims of a gradual decrease in new COVID-19 cases, the central government has resumed the operation of all modes of mass transportation, although service is limited. The decision was quickly rejected by regional governments and experts...
Protection of migrant workers in spotlight after death of crewmen
Reports on the deaths of four Indonesian crew members working on Chinese fishing vessels have prompted a public debate over the poor protection of migrant workers and their rights. Poor working conditions on vessels have reportedly led to the frequen...
Patchy repatriation scheme may worsen COVID-19 crisis
Amid an increase in COVID-19 transmission, the government is pressing ahead with a plan to repatriate around 34,300 more migrant workers in the next two months, which will bring the toll to more than 150,000 workers. The plan, however, has raised con...
BUSSINES & ECONOMICS
Govt outlines $10.2 B rescue package for debt-choked SOEs
Finance Ministry fiscal policy agency (BKF) head Febrio Kacaribu announced a Rp 318.09 trillion (US$21.28 billion) economic recovery program on Wednesday, of which almost half of the announced package, Rp 152.15 trillion, is allocated to major state-...
Amended Minerba bill speedily passed into law to save coal barons
A coalition of interests, supported fully by coal barons, managed to secure a speedy amendment to the 2009 Mineral and Coal Mining (Minerba) Law, thereby assuring the extension of their expiring concessions. This has prompted civil society organizati...
Doubly burdened KAI gets new CEO to handle its deteriorating finances
State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) is facing financial difficulties as a result of the double burden of shouldering most of the costs of Jakarta’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project amid plummeting revenue caused by the COVID...
Global economic downturn hits Indonesian trade
The worldwide economic shutdown has begun to bite on the Indonesian economy. The country’s non-oil and gas exports in April contracted by 6.4 percent year-on-year to US$11.6 billion. Meanwhile, the country’s oil and gas sector stopped crude oil expor...
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