JAKARTA - The Indonesian Shopping Center Management Association (APPBI) urges the government to provide a 50 percent subsidy of salaries to employees when the policy of implementing the Emergency Community Activity Restriction (PPKM) is implemented from July 3 to 20, 2021.
General Chairman Alphonzus Widjaja said that during the period from 3 to 20 July, commercial activities in shopping centers were closed and it was confirmed that they would be paralyzed. Thus, efforts to subsidy 50 percent of salaries need to be carried out by the government in order to avoid termination of employment (PHK).
Furthermore, Alphonzus said that during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurs had proposed various incentives, but they were still not significant for improving performance.
"The shopping center also hopes that the government can provide subsidies for workers' wages of 50 percent which are distributed directly to workers through BPJS Ketenagakerjaan," he said when contacted, Friday, July 3.
In addition to the wage subsidy, said Alphonzus, entrepreneurs also asked for a temporary exemption from taxes related to sales and is expected to increase sales, which have been in a tough condition for more than a year.
Then, continued Alphonzus, the temporary abolition of final taxes. Because, so far, they still have to be paid even though the business conditions are closed or limited.
According to him, this will be able to relieve business actors who have been in a slump since the COVID-19 outbreak entered Indonesia last year.
"So with these two types of incentives, it is hoped that they can immediately boost sales and at the same time save business actors who have started to fail since last year, especially since the end of last year which is still ongoing until now," he said.
Furthermore, he said, with the implementation of the Java-Bali Emergency PPKM, shopping centers will again experience great difficulties which until now actually have not been able to rise from adversity due to severe conditions that occurred in 2020.
Meanwhile, said Alphonzus, in early 2021 operations will be opened with 50 percent capacity, but continue to shrink until now and will even be closed 100 percent.
"Entering 2021, actually with business conditions that are much tougher than 2020 because almost all reserve funds have been drained just to survive," he explained.
Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) emphasized that activities at shopping centers, malls and trade centers were temporarily closed during the Emergency PPKM period. The policy is enforced from 3 to 20 July 2021.
"So there are no malls that are open until the 20th. We hope that during that time we can reduce it to maybe below 10 thousand or close to 10 thousand (COVID-19 cases)," he said, in a virtual press conference, Thursday, July 1. .
Meanwhile, for essential activities such as finance and banking, capital markets, payment systems, information and communication technology, non-COVID-19 quarantine handling hotels, export-oriented industries, 50 percent of staff who work or work from office (WFO) are applied with the provisions of implementing protocols. strict health.
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