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know that during the pandemic of CO- ing the pandemic time, business There are also incentive in taxation
VID-19, finance and health sectors has credit level had been increased in and retribution, as stated in the Gu-
grown rapidly above average even- the last three years until April 2020. bernatorial Regulation No.36/2020 on
though the financial service dropped This means that during the pandem- The Elimanation of Tax Administrative
by around 15% and health service also ic, business credit from micro, small Sanction during COVID-19 Emergency
dropped by 10% in the first quarter. and medium enterprises has been in- Response Status. There is also Guber-
How do you see the household spend- creased. This cant be happened with- natorial Instruction (Ingub) outlining
ing these days? out the coordination between the the retribution break for the UMKMs.
central government with financial in-
It’s important for the government stitutions and banks for distributing Can you explain what are the incen-
of Jakarta (Pemprov DKI) to keep the credits for Jakarta. tives?
communities’ consumption level grow.
There’s a shock in demand, indeed. How do you see business credits for In general, the incentives are elim-
When Jakarta imposed restrictions in the UMKMs in supporting economic ination or reduction by 50% and 100%
business activities during Large Scale growth in Jakarta? of tax administrative sanction. Those
Social Restriction (PSBB), many peo- incentives will be granted if, for exam-
ple especially those who have UMK- We see an outstanding increased ple, the stores are small, or they use
Ms and who get day-labors are losing credits data given by banks for the last Pujasera (food courts), open-kiosks
their normal income. We dont want three years: from micro, small and with promotional rate, or in promo-
the situation to cause the downfall in medium credits. The UMKMs in Jakar- tional locations and shopping centers.
purchase intention, too. ta, according to 2016 census, are dom-
inating the total of 1.15 million micro Besides tax break and incentives,
In your opinion, what sectors are the and small businesses, means 93.46% what else does the government pro-
most-affected by COVID-19 pandem- of them are UMKMs in Jakarta. While vide?
ic? the total of medium and big enterpris- 13
es is 81,000 or 6.54%. There is one exceptional thing: A
There are numbers of sectors Large Scale Social Collaboration pro-
which hit hard by the pandemic, one What would the Jakarta government gram. The Jakarta government has
of them is tourism sector. The closure do to save the UMKMs? launched a collaborative work for all
of several tourist attractions caused business owners, state-owned enter-
a decline of tourist visits in Jakarta. We are conducting digital mar- prises (BUMN) and ministries to join in
The same thing happen in hotels and keting trainings. As we have known, this so called KSBB UMKM program to
malls. Transportation sector is includ- one of the challenges that the UMK- help the UMKMs in the form of train-
ed, too, as many flights were being Ms need to face is marketing. Thus, ings, facilities and infrastructures or
postponed and cancelled. the Jakarta government has inisiated capital loans.
a collaborative work with Bibli.com,
Does the pandemic also affect num- Shopee, Tokopedia, Gojek and Grab to Does it effective enough to revive the
ber of poors in Jakarta? give online marketing trainings for the economy?
UMKMs. Also, the Jakarta government
It does, indeed. The Indonesia Sta- gives relaxation and accelerated pro- This policy was made in hope to
tistics (BPS) has released a new data cess for business permits. Moreover, give stimulus for business. The gov-
showing that the number of poors in we launched Bisnis Matching program ernment does not only provide assis-
Jakarta has been increased more rap- to make it possible for big companies tance to trigger demand but also sup-
idly, compared to the last period of to collaborate with UMKMs. ply, to help improve the production
March-September in 2019. But the especially for UMKMs.
PSBB status during March to June Is there any incentive prepared for .
didnt show new change of unemploy- the UMKMs during this pandemic
ment. time?

What do you think about the business There are numbers of incentive
of UMKMs during the pandemic? given to the UMKM owners: rental
cost reduction, stores allocation and
I have one interesting note. Dur- acceleration for business permits. gro