Jokowi worries on prompt fund disbursal for COVID-19 health services

What are we waiting on when we currently have a budget

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has urged his assistants to accelerate the dispensation of funding for the payment of COVID-19- related health services, and if deemed necessary, enhance the procedure at the Health Ministry.

” Dispensation of funds should be accelerated for COVID-19- related health services. No problem must be gotten,” the head of state noted throughout a restricted meeting held to go over the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Merdeka Palace on Monday.

Widodo drew emphasis on using a more simplified procedure for fund disbursal at the Health Ministry, consisting of settlement for the families of dead clients and incentives for medical and laboratory workers.

” We can simplify clauses in the Ministerial Policy,” he noted.

” What are we awaiting when we currently have a budget,” the President questioned.

During a cabinet plenary session on June 18, the president interested his assistants to improve ministerial budget costs, mentioning that expenditure in the health sector had just reached two percent of the allocated Rp75 trillion.

The president has actually likewise highlighted the need to without delay disburse social help and guarantee that micro-, little-, and medium-scale companies have received the needed economic stimulus.


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