Occupancy Drops, PHRI DKI Asks The Government To Meet In Hotels And Restaurants

JAKARTA - The Regional Leadership Body of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) DKI Jakarta said the hotel and restaurant industry in Jakarta is increasingly critical, because the occupancy rate continues to decline.

Therefore, PHRI asked the government to help the business sector by holding meetings or meetings in hotels and restaurants in Jakarta.

Currently in Jakarta there are 991 hotels. Consisting of 397 star hotels, 594 non-star hotels, and dozens or even tens of thousands of restaurants that have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Where the occupancy rate continues to decline. During the last 5 years, from about 70 percent to about 56 percent, but now the occupancy rate of hotels and restaurants is below 20 percent.

Head of BPD PHRI DKI Jakarta, Sutrisno Iwantono, said that hotels and restaurants are the sub-sectors that are worst affected by the pandemic and are predicted to have the last recovery compared to other sectors. Therefore, the government must help this sector survive.

"Fixing the demand for our current business is very, very far from standard conditions. The activities of government meetings and state-owned enterprises should be intensified again in Jakarta so that they can provide jobs to hotels and restaurants," he said in Jakarta, Sunday January 17th.

Not only that, to help increase hotel occupancy, BPD PHRI DKI Jakarta also proposed that the government make a special program so that both foreign and domestic tourists stay in Jakarta for a few days.

"So they stay at our hotel, eat at our restaurant and visit various tourist objects," he said.

On the other hand, Sutrisno said that he agreed to build the Awakening Movement so that hotel and restaurant business actors would not worsen and could rise in 2021, so as not to cause severe losses for owners.

Sutrisno also asked the government to help alleviate the economic burdens and costs that could cause the industry to collapse. For example, PB1 taxes, Corporate Taxes, PBB, advertisement taxes, groundwater taxes, electricity costs, labor levies and other levies should be mitigated.

"Taxation for hotels and restaurants / small shops must be relaxed. Taxes are final, the figure of Rp. 4.8 billion for small businesses is currently considered too small, and should be increased to at least Rp. 7.5 billion," he said.