Need Assurance of Covid-19 Vaccine Availability, Entrepreneurs: We Don’t Like Surprise

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Rosan Perkasa Roeslani asked the government to provide a description of availability the Covid-19 vaccine to business actors.

The reason is, every time there is a delay, there is always a delay fee (cost of delay) production for entrepreneurs.

Rosan admits that business people do not like surprises and sudden things because everything needs planning.

“We are in the business world, we don’t like surprise. When is the vaccine? Is the concentration in the first semester or second semester? We have to get a picture. Every delay is there cost of delaytoo, “said Rosan in a press conference, Tuesday (11/24/2020).

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Apart from entrepreneurs, the government also needs to increase the postponement fee if vaccines cannot be distributed massively in the first semester of 2021.

This is because the National Economic Recovery (PEN) budget prepared for IDR 356.4 trillion in 2021 is only planned for the first 6 months.

If the massive vaccine is distributed in the second semester of 2021, the government is deemed necessary to develop another scenario.

One of them is increasing the budget for social protection, MSME stimulus, and funding for corporations.

“This corporate financing is not the kind of stimulus it is today heavymore to BUMN. Indeed, there is a statement in January the third week the vaccine began to be distributed. But we have to know when most of it, “said Rosan.

Further he said, the Work Creation Act became game changer the second is to boost the recovery of industries other than vaccines.

However, it needs to be ensured that the target for issuing derivative regulations such as Government Regulations (PP) and Presidential Regulations (Perpres) is not missed.

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“The target (PP and Perpres issuance) is 3 months. Means that February must be completed. With that, industry confidence is there, the investment climate increases, and jobs are created better. Digital acceleration in Industry 4.0 also increases,” said Rosan.

Therefore he hopes that the Job Creation Law will be executed properly. If it goes well, investment from outside and within the country will continue to arrive.

“Especially with the tension (trade war) of China, countries like the US and Japan have told their (national) companies to leave China so that the global value chain is not affected. This is a game changer (for Indonesia),” said Rosan. .

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