ANU Indonesia Project Global Seminar Series
Financing the responses to Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia

Suahasil Nazara (Vice Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia), Peter McCawley (ANU)
Chair: Arianto Patunru (ANU)

While saving lives is the number one priority, almost every country is also struggling to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. National emergency response plans have forced countries to run large deficits and overhaul their budget allocations. In Indonesia, the government and the parliament agreed to temporarily abandon the 3% rule of deficit-to-GDP ratio. But it is still not sufficient. There is also an urgent need for response at the international level. In this webinar, we invite Dr Suahasil Nazara and Dr Peter McCawley to discuss these issues. Dr Nazara is the Vice Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia, who is also an economic professor at Universitas Indonesia. He will talk about the government’s response in terms of social protection policies and relief financing in Indonesia. Dr McCawley is a Visiting Fellow at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, ANU and he will discuss the international aid coordination with regards to the fight against the pandemic.

Please see our new website, www.covid19Indonesia.net, for presentation materials from the speakers.

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