Difficult Targets to Achieve
Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto in a press conference related to Anticipating Community Mobility and Preventing a Spike in Covid-19
Cases Post-Eid Lebaran which was broadcast online last weekend reiterated his optimism that economic growth in the second quarter of 2021 could grow 7 percent. He once said the same thing when describing the economic growth in the first quarter of 2021. According to Airlangga, in the second quarter of 2021, Indonesia's economic growth will rise like the letter V curve. In the first quarter of 2021, economic growth will still contract minus 0.74 percent. Economist of the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), Bhima Yudhistira, said that various indicators did show a trend of economic recovery. However, the government must be able to control the number of Covid-19 cases. Do not let there be a spike in cases after Lebaran which will result in further tightening of socio-economic activities. If this happens, it will be counterproductive to the economic recovery. “We realize that this consumption momentum will be lost in the short term or post-Eid. Therefore, we must jointly concentrate on maintaining the current positive growth momentum so that it can continue and grow higher post-Eid,” said Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Shinta Widjaja Kamdani. One way that can be done is by controlling the pandemic better and vaccination more intensively. This is so that public confidence in carrying out economic activities can increase. Quiet atmosphere in Jakarta
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