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View all search resultsThe possible amendments to the 1999 and 2004 Bank Indonesia (BI) Laws and the issuance of a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on financial system reform may interfere with the central bank’s independence, economists have warned.
“We should have controlled the virus spread first before the economy could grow. If the virus cases declined, the economy would automatically pick up," University of Indonesia senior economist Faisal Basri told lawmakers.
Indef economist Bhima Yudhistira said that greater stimulus was needed to increase the country’s healthcare capabilities, which would in turn support the gradual reopening of the economy so that COVID-19 transmission did not spike and cause a second wave of infections.
The call derives from the apparent impunity a recent regulation provides to officials in charge of implementing COVID-19 policies and disbursing related funds, as well as the "defanged" anticorruption agency.
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