Good News, Luhut Coordinates With The Minister Of Energy And Mineral Resources To Overcome The Impact Of Emergency PPKM To Prepare Electricity Assistance

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JAKARTA - The government has implemented an emergency Community Activity Restriction (PPKM) for the Java and Bali regions from 3 to 20 July 2021. To anticipate the impact of the emergency PPKM, the government has again launched various social assistance, one of which is electricity assistance.

The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investments as well as the Coordinator of the Java-Bali Emergency PPKM Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said he had discussed with the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin Tasrif to discuss electricity assistance.

"Including electricity, I called the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, it will be arranged, so there is no problem," he said, in a virtual press conference, Thursday, July 1.

Luhut said President Joko Widodo had asked him to ensure that the handling of COVID-19 was not only to deal with the health sector, but also to protect the underprivileged people. For this reason, the government will accelerate the distribution of social assistance (bansos).

"So the President emphasized that the lower middle class really must be protected. Through this step the Emergency PPKM will mitigate and our economic recovery will also be faster than before," he said.

Luhut ensured that the economic recovery had shown success. This is reflected in the realization of economic growth, controlled inflation and unemployment, growing export and import performance, as well as an increase in the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI).

Based on a copy of the implementation of the tightening of community activities in the Emergency PPKM, the policy was carried out in 48 regions with a level 4 pandemic situation assessment and 74 city districts with a level 3 pandemic situation.