{"id":3472,"date":"2020-06-16T13:47:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/?page_id=3472"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:33:55","slug":"update-14-june-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/?page_id=3472","title":{"rendered":"Update #14  June 1, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=&#8221;1_1&#8243; layout=&#8221;1_1&#8243; background_position=&#8221;left top&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; border_position=&#8221;all&#8221; spacing=&#8221;yes&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; margin_top=&#8221;0px&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;0px&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;&#8221; animation_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; center_content=&#8221;no&#8221; last=&#8221;no&#8221; min_height=&#8221;&#8221; hover_type=&#8221;none&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Indonesia Coronavirus Update #14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 June 1, 2020<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Number of reported cases:\u00a026,940 (as of June 1) 1641 Deaths 7637 Recoveries\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rupiah to US$ 14,733 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jakarta Stock Exchange Index: 4753<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3475\" src=\"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1.png 1728w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-300x219.png 300w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-1024x748.png 1024w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-768x561.png 768w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-1536x1122.png 1536w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-200x146.png 200w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-400x292.png 400w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-600x438.png 600w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-800x584.png 800w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-1200x876.png 1200w, http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-june1-450x329.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Moving into a \u201cNew Normal\u201d (NN):<\/strong>President Jokowi has used the English phrase, \u201cnew normal\u201d, in his remarks about returning to work and reopening the economy in phases after June 1.\u00a0Government officials, however, are not all speaking from the same script with some saying it\u2019s a policy and others saying it\u2019s a conceptual proposal.\u00a0\u00a0Indonesia\u2019s police and military have been mobilized to ensure that malls, markets, parks, and public transportation will be at 50% capacity and that people are wearing masks.\u00a0The President and Jakarta Governor, Anies Baswedan, continue to have somewhat differing views. The Governor did not immediately endorse the \u201cnew normal\u201d, saying he wanted to look more closely at the transmission data and may extend social distancing rules until June 4.\u00a0\u00a0Similarly, Surabaya\u2019s mayor Rismaharini pushed back on Jokowi\u2019s announcement that the city is part of the \u201cnew normal\u201d, saying that tight restrictions were still necessary until June 7 (or later) in light of a spike in COVID-19 cases.\u00a0East Java\u2019s Governor Khofifah also dismissed talk of a \u201cnew normal\u201d given the province\u2019s transmission rate.\u00a0\u00a0In many areas of the country, Indonesia\u2019s public \u2013beginning with last week\u2019s Idul Fitri celebrations\u2014may have already passed into the new situation. For example, motorcycle taxi drivers, limited to only transporting goods since April, have prepared for the NN by creating a plastic partition, which is easy to clean, carried like a backpack by drivers. The partition is equipped with a hand grip to avoid direct physical contact between driver and passenger.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Infection Rate is Flat: Misleading Media Reports <\/strong>With the exception of East Java (Surabaya is its largest city), Indonesia\u2019s rate of infection continues to be arithmetic (\u201cflat\u201d) not exponential.\u00a0International media reports, including a story in the NY Times headlined \u201cIt\u2019s Too Late\u201d, have been misleading.\u00a0It labeled a test of 11,555 Surabaya residents for antibodies \u2013 which had a 10% positive rate\u2014as evidence of \u201crunaway transmission\u201d.\u00a0The Times story mistakenly called the test random when it was actually targeted to areas of known infections and as a means to test front line health, security, and logistics workers.\u00a0Furthermore, as pointed out by <strong>Reformasi Weekly, <\/strong>an independent analysis of Indonesian politics and policies, the presence of anti-bodies can be an indicator of exposure that happened weeks or months in the past.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIn fact, subsequent molecular testing determined that fewer than half of those who had tested positive for antibodies in Surabaya actually carried active infections\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vaccine Development:<\/strong> Although Indonesia has allocated resources to develop its own COVID-19 vaccine (including the reagents and other supplies for manufacturing) it is unlikely it can do so in sufficient quantities.\u00a0\u00a0International cooperation will also be necessary.\u00a0Minister for State-Enterprises, Eric Thohir, announced discussions with the Chinese company Sinovac and CEPI (<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Y2mW42z0uIrleqjSeLLc3jqY8F06rzihXEOoKrJ80jWxRL1ZhNuSA13MGVpf1IucV_C_yEBnyHfSpyTcCD16iOihwOsgcXr03c1GrOEDDtx6W0GpKZmYCXJObxruzzadK6v1u2i1Z2s=&amp;c=opni5Z6rtIZXR08522a2gcrmP1t70bzNOc_yMEbRnZ8P01co_2MXmQ==&amp;ch=KhAaDRbUY0DT4mHMC7e-Tys7_BY4dW4wJeGfjs4rXNPpCSBVUwnsDg==\">Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness<\/a>). \u201cDon\u2019t let us just wait around saying, \u2018later, when a vaccine exists\u2019- we must prepare for a new \u2018normal\u2019 \u201c.\u00a0\u00a0The competition for vaccine deployment could become fierce and it is too early to predict when and where a mass-produced vaccine will be available.\u00a0Current likely candidates are India and China<em>.\u00a0\u00a0Note: CEPI (formed by WHO, India, Norway, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and Switzerland) does not include the US or Indonesia. It began funding COVID-19 vaccine research in January 2020. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Widening Fiscal Deficit: <\/strong>Finance Minister Sri Mulyani reported that contracting revenues would widen the 5.1% deficit to 6.3% of GDP. Indonesia\u2019s central bank is preparing to purchase treasury notes, a policy that has been avoided for decades now allowed as a result of a recent Presidential Decree-In-Lieu-of-Law.\u00a0According to the Minister the debt-to-GDP ratio of 30.2% (2019) will rise to 37.6% (2020) and 38.3% by 2023.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More Stimulus:<\/strong> The government announced an additional spending package of $44 billion aimed at banks, private sector small\/medium enterprises.\u00a0\u00a0Included in the payments are funds for 12 key state enterprises, including Garuda (air transportation), BULOG (food supplies), Hutama Karya (construction), Krakatau (Steel),\u00a0Bahana (finance),\u00a0PLN (electricity) and Pertamina (gasoline), to compensate them for losses due to prolonged subsidies.\u00a0Critics in the private sector have questioned the efficiency of using the SOE\u2019s as the prime vehicle for economic stimulus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/fusion_text][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2194,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"side-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3472\/revisions\/3491"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}