Apindo Values Geopolitical Problems Are More Manageable Than The COVID-19 Pandemic

Chairman of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) Hariyadi Sukamdani. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo) Hariyadi Sukamdani assessed that the geopolitical problems of Russia and Ukraine that are currently weighing on the world tend to be more manageable than the COVID-19 pandemic, so that the impact on Indonesia's economic growth can be minimized.

"Our view is that the current conditions are better than the conditions during the pandemic," said Hariyadi Sukamdani, quoted from Antara, Monday, July 4.

During the pandemic, he said, Indonesia, and even the whole world, was really experiencing difficulties because humans had health problems.

So that the world community cannot move or is prohibited by their respective countries from carrying out their activities and causing economic activity to be hampered.

Meanwhile, geopolitical conditions, he said, were more manageable because there were still community activities, although there were problems related to rising prices of goods.

"There is indeed a problem with the increase in energy, there is a problem with the increase in food raw materials, and so on," said Hariyadi Sukamdani.

Even so, Hariyadi is optimistic that all these problems can be managed properly by each country and regulated in such a way, including Indonesia.

According to him, one of the steps that Indonesia can take in dealing with geopolitical conditions is to prepare substitutions for commodities that are experiencing price increases or scarcity due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The geopolitical conditions that are weighing on the world today are still caused by the second conflict which has not yet ended.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday 3 July vowed to retake control of the Lysychansk region from Russia.