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View all search resultsThe government has plans for Rp 436 trillion spending to contain COVID-19, focusing on health care, the social safety net and business-rescue programs. Thus, the government will become the biggest spender during the economic crisis as businesses and consumers mostly tighten their belts.
The government had planned in early April to raise Rp 450 trillion (US$30.05 billion) in “pandemic bonds” on top of issuing Rp 549.6 trillion worth of sovereign debt papers, according to Presidential Regulation No. 54/2020 on the state budget revision.
The Bank of Japan expanded monetary stimulus on Monday and pledged to buy unlimited amount of bonds to keep borrowing costs low as the government tries to spend its way out of the deepening economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic.
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