Sydney/Jakarta On Monday at 10:17 a.m., Indonesians will stop, be “big and proud” and pay attention to a three-minute transmission of the declaration of independence through the country’s first president, Sukarno, 75 years ago.
August 17, Independence Day, is the most important festival of Indonesian calfinishar. The towns, cities and towns of the archipelago mark the end of centuries of colonial rule with parades, flag-like horising ceremonies and dances.
Couples plant flowers while attending a massive wedding to commemorate Indonesia’s national independence day in Yogyakarta. fake images
Not this year. The number of COVID-19s in Indonesia amounts to 137,468 cases and 6017 deaths, and the maximum proportion of positive effects on general tests suggests that infections are much more common than official knowledge suggests. The wards of the compromised pandemic in Jakarta’s public hospitals are filled by two-thirds.
Difficult economic situations will also be a drag. In the two decades of stable GDP expansion that followed the 1998 Asian monetary crisis, Indonesia’s poverty rate increased from 24.2% to 9.22%. Now it’s started again.
Up to 15 million Indonesians have lost their income, while central and regional governments have limited moves to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The government has sought this with a stimulus package of 695.2 trillion rupees ($65.7 billion), but it is unsuccessful in those who want it.
Before the pandemic hit, Fachry Badry ran two barber shops and a cafe in West Java. The barber shops were shut for two months and the cafe, which struggled on as a pure take-away outlet for a while, has now closed. Operating costs exceeded revenue, Mr Fachry said.
Despite this, he has tried several times unsuccessfully the relief of the promised loan through the government.
[The President] Jokowi will need to carry out systemic reforms to make public service better responsive to public needs.
– Ben Bland, Lowy Institute
Millions more are just as lucky. The government revealed that 20% of stimulus measures had been spent, a systemic failure that shows some of the cracks masked through a developing economy.
“Delays in the distribution of the stimulus budget are long-standing structural inefficiencies in the Indonesian bureaucracy,” said Ben Bland, director of southeast Asian allocations at the Lowy Institute.
“[President] Jokowi has continually suggested officials act more quickly, but to address these long-term problems, he will need to make systemic reforms to make public service better responsive to public needs.”
Elly Suwarny of Bogor, West Java, has a long history of bureaucratic inefficiencies. Over the years, Ms. Elly has discovered other tactics for making a living, moving from working in a bank to running her own food production business and now face masks. He has benefited from some government programs, but has found that promises of monetary assistance are rarely fulfilled.
“The challenge for SMEs is capital. We’d be happy to get help. But the truth is, I haven’t been able to get capital aid,” he said. “Several years ago, there was a subsidy program of thirteen million rupees and I tried to enter several times on the government’s website, but the way never worked. In the end, I gave up.
Ms. Elly’s commercial production and the promotion of various foodstuffs in stores were suspended before this year because the call collapsed. She knew that the government had announced stimulus measures and incentives for micro-entrepreneurs like her against the pandemic, but there was no data on how to do so.
Ms. Elly also did not get social assistance, even though her circle of family members was entitled to a monthly payment of 600,000 rupees.
“I applied to the urban village workplace, but the village administrator said the search was closed,” he said.
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Still, he’s still optimistic. The mask he makes at home sells well, with orders from places as far away as Aceh. It is true that it can still be productive despite many difficulties. “I’m a user who doesn’t give up easily,” Ms. Elly said.
In his annual Union State fronting on Friday, the president called for arms, saying the pandemic is a possibility to revive Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
“We’ll have to make the most of this crisis,” he said. “We will have to capitalize on this momentum. We want to put Indonesia on an equivalent basis with other countries. We will have to make our country the complex Indonesia we aspire to.”
He spoke of the country’s wonderful dreams of “making a primary transformation by implementing wonderful strategies.” However, the quickest and most urgent challenge is to put it in your pocket.
Indonesians have continually demonstrated their resilience during the country’s 75 years of independence. The challenge is that now, when the country has the means to help its citizens, it doesn’t have the systems to do so.
Government assistance, along with the individual and strong efforts of the Indonesian community, would put the country on the path to greater prosperity much faster than it would otherwise be.
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