Jokowi Asks Entrepreneurs not to Fire Employees Amid the Covid-19 Plague

TRIBUNBATAM.id - President Joko Widodo asked employers not to lay off employees amid the coronavirus pandemic or Covid-19.

"I invite all entrepreneurs to work hard to stand up the workers," Jokowi said at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Thursday (04/09/2020). 

Jokowi realized that the Covid-19 pandemic really made economic conditions more difficult.

All professions are also affected, for example, entrepreneurs, employees, factory workers, taxi drivers, bus drivers, truck drivers, motorcycle taxi drivers, parking attendants, crafters, small traders, micro-businesses, and many more.

For this reason, Jokowi hopes that the community can also work together and help each other. 

"I invite all parties to care for the less fortunate people. By working together nationally, we can maintain the achievements of development and use them to leapfrog progress," Jokowi said. 

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On that occasion, Jokowi also emphasized that the central government has allocated a budget to help the people affected by the coronavirus.

Various social assistance programs, such as the Family Hope Program, the Basic Food Supply Card, and the Work Card, plus the budget so that they can reach clearer communities.

The government has also budgeted basic food aid and cash assistance for poor people worth Rp. 600,000 / month for three months.

Then, there are also electricity tariff waivers and discounts for 450 VA and 900 VA customers. 

The total budget spent by the government for various social safety net programs reaches Rp 110 trillion.  

Based on data from the Ministry of Manpower as of April 7, 2020, there were 39,977 companies in the formal sector that laid off their workers.

The number reached 1,010,579 workers.

Of that number, 873,090 workers from 17,224 companies were laid off, while 137,489 workers from 22,753 companies were laid off. 

Something similar happened in the informal sector. In total there were 189,452 workers from 34,453 companies that were laid off (*) 

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