COVID-19: Indonesia prepares for worst growth scenarios
The Indonesian government has prepared a few scenarios on how Indonesia's economic growth will end up as the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit the country’s economy, said Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati on March 20.
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati delivers remarks after the signing of a memorandum of understanding and cooperation agreement at the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister in Jakarta on Feb. 13. (Photo: Antara)
Jakarta (VNA) - The Indonesian government has prepared a fewscenarios on how Indonesia's economic growth will end up as the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit the country’s economy,said Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati on March 20.
In the event of disrupted international trade, weakened householdspending, layoffs and drop in crude price, the ministry projected that Indonesia’seconomic growth would still be able to reach above 4 percent this year, Sri Mulyanisaid.
However, if the problems worsen, the COVID-19 outbreak lasts more thansix months, international trade falls by 30 percent and the aviation industryfaces a shock drop of 75 percent, economic growth could reach as low as 2.5percent or even 0 percent, she added.
The minister hoped that there will be vaccine and antiviral for thedisease, saying that if the finding can be done quickly, the economic impactswill surely be shorter.
Indonesia’s economy grew 5.02 percent last year, slower than 5.17percent recorded in 2018 as investment and exports dropped.
Sri Mulyani projected on March 18 that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth would weaken to between 4.5 percentand 4.9 percent in the first quarter, with a possibility of plungingfurther in the second quarter as economic activity weakened due to the novelcoronavirus outbreak./.
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Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati delivers remarks after the signing of a memorandum of understanding and cooperation agreement at the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister in Jakarta on Feb. 13. (Photo: Antara) 
