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View all search resultsIndef 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.
Senior economist Didik J. Rachbini has said that negative sentiments over the President's millennial staff were mostly related to recent controversies over conflicts of interest and their behavior on social media as government officials.
The government is distributing food aid to 20 million poor households across the country to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. But large-scale social restrictions may jeopardize the humanitarian effort.
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