Partners’ Response Overview

The Multi Sectoral Response Plan aims at complementing the efforts of the Government of Indonesia in addressing the direct and indirect impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

To get a comprehensive analysis on the socio-economic impact of community protection programmes, a series of survey are being conducted:

Household surveys with SMERU and BPS (using Susenas Database); targeting 20,000 respondents. The survey will be completed in three rounds via an interactive voice response and will assess the situation of household samples. Follow up surveys will focus on household access to social protection and welfare status

Survey activity framework for MSME with LPEM UI and in coordination with the Ministry of Cooperatives; targeting 1100 MSMEs

Gender based violence (GBV) and unpaid worker surveys with JPAL SEA that combine quantitative survey (targeted 1300 respondents) and in-depth interview (phone survey targeted 200 respondents)

Innovative financing analysis for social protection with LD FEB UI; targeting 7 provinces.

Partners’ COVID-19 response

Vulnerabilities

BAPPENAS has estimated that the unemployment rate in Indonesia will increase by 4 million to 5.5 million people in 2020 (8.1-9.2 percent), and in 2021 by 10.7 million up to 12.7 million people (for a 7.7 to 9.1 percent rate).

In March 2020, BPS (Statistics Indonesia) indicated that the country’s poverty increased by 0.37% compared to last year’s figure, meaning that there are 1.28 million Indonesians that fell into poverty. In rural area, the poverty increases from 12.62% to 12.82%, while in urban area it increased from 6.56% to 7.38%. The trend is expected to increase.

Remittances of Indonesian migrant workers dropped by 10% between the first quarter of 2020 compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. Updated estimates indicate that total remittance receipts for the year will decrease by at least 13% due to reduced opportunities for Indonesian migrant workers to go and maintain their livelihoods abroad.

Partners’ COVID-19 response

Activities

UNDP is mapping the capacity gap in seven provinces on crisis response coordination. The results will trigger the provision of technical personnel and other resources to strengthen cross-sectoral coordination capacity. These activities are conducted between April to July 2020.

UNDP supported the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucracy Reform to improve its citizen reporting platform, LAPOR! allowing it to support COVID19 awareness and reporting. Currently, UNDP supports the adjustment of the program operation, and development of a framework for synergizing the reporting system between the regional and National Government.

UNDP is supporting big data analysis mechanisms in accordance with the data privacy code of conduct and international standards for ethical use of data. It identifies digital solutions that can help collect and share information, provide telecommunications services and essential public services e.g. telemedicine. These efforts, conducted in May – July, will enable effective response interventions.

Partners’ COVID-19 response

Cont. Activities

To get a comprehensive analysis of the socio-economic impact for the community protection programme, a series of surveys are being conducted:

UNDP and UNICEF - Household surveys with SMERU and BPS (using Susenas Database); targeting 20,000 respondents. The survey will be completed in three rounds via interactive voice response and will be assess the situation of the household samples from the full-scale survey. These follow up surveys will focus on household access to social protection and welfare status

UNDP - Survey activity framework for MSME with LPEM UI and in coordination with Ministry of Cooperative; targeting 1100 MSMEs

Gender based violence (GBV) and unpaid worker surveys with JPAL SEA that combine quantitative survey (targeted 1,300 respondents) and in-depth interview (phone survey targeted 200 respondents)

UNDP - Innovative financing analysis for social protection with LD FEB UI; targeting seven provinces. The study attempts to explore the opportunities and challenges in leveraging innovative finance to strengthen government social protection system and facilitate the involvement of the private sector and philanthropy in ensuring social protection for most affected people, including households, MSMEs, informal workers, and vulnerable groups

Partners’ COVID-19 response

Cont. Activities

UNDP, WHO, ILO, and OCHA are working with other clusters to advocate and synchronize the "new normal" guidelines for the private sector:

Webinar - Executive Roundtable Dialogues on the New Normal Protocol for Sustainable Business delivered on 22 July 2020. https://youtu.be/o_Jdz9jcVis

The first sectoral webinar delivered on 6 August with the focus on how to establish health and safety protocols for getting back to general workplaces. https://youtu.be/MQe1YC2oaB0

The second webinar delivered on 13 August with the focus the health and safety protocols in food business. https://youtu.be/UsG6bh0cGLw

The next webinar series will focus on hotel and tourism (19 August), mass gathering and sport event (27 August) and transportation (3 September).

Partners’ COVID-19 response

Cont. Activities

UNDP and UNICEF are supporting the Ministry of Villages (MoV) and MoSA on data synchronization mechanism for cash assistance schemes provided by both ministries.

UNDP is supporting MoV for the formulation of a monitoring system for the distribution of village funds for labor-intensive activities as part of social protection to strengthen community economic security.

UNDP is supporting MoV to strengthen its socio-economic response to COVID-19 at the subnational level thru an area-based integrated response using a social platform approach. The platform interconnects a wide-range of local stakeholders and initiatives to work on a systematic and comprehensive response to COVID-19.

Wahana Visi Indonesia is supporting 2,557 households through cash and voucher assistance for livelihoods.

UNDP, through its Youth Co Lab, and in partnership with UNICEF's U-Report conducted a survey among 756 young entrepreneurs to identify the challenges and most needed support from all across Indonesia with a majority of respondents coming from West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatera and working in the service, F&B, and retail sector. From the survey results, 79% of youth entrepreneurs reported that COVID-19 brough negative impact to their business where 21% of youth entrepreneurs had to close their business

CARE Indonesia implements four cash-for-work and voucher assistance interventions; 1. for 100 laid-off female garment workers in Sukabumi and Purwakarta Districts of West Java, 2. the Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance for 200 women in the same locations, 3. Cash for Labour Intensive benefitting 160 people in NTT, and 4. Cash Assistance that will target 2,971 low-income households with pregnant and lactating mothers, children under 5 years, person with disability and elderly, in Serang District of Banten and Bone District of South Sulawesi.

Partners’ COVID-19 response

Cont. Activities

Oxfam will start a cash transfer programme in Banten and Bogor in West Java Province, targeting 2,300 beneficiaries, working with the Red Cross Indonesia and PT Pos Indonesia. Main target group is the communities affected by flash floods in early 2020.

UNICEF is providing ongoing support to the government in developing guidelines for increasing coverage and benefits of unconditional cash transfers of a poverty-focused child grant program during COVID-19. UNICEF also provided support on the design of a modified mechanism for a locally controlled ‘village fund’ that has so far benefitted 6.5 million of poor families not currently accessing national social protection programmes. Finally, UNICEF is working with the Ministry of Finance and the National Bureau of Statistics with INDOMOD projections to simulate the impact of government spending on social protection through COVID-19 safety net programmes, and to identify priority programs for children for secured financing in the 2021 Annual Budget.

UNFPA is facilitating a situation analysis on the impact of large scale social distancing measures on the experiences of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic under the leadership of the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs (Kemenko PMK), MoH’s Family Health Directorate, the report will be available in September.

UNIDO Indonesia is conducting an online survey on the socio-economic impact of SMEs. Initial findings highlight industrial sector operating at under-capacity and supply chains disrupted, thereby limiting cash flow for the concerned SMEs in the sector.

Partners’ Response Overview

Gaps and Constraints

The Government launched the National Economic Recovery Program (PEN – Pemulihan Ekonomi Nasional) on 11 May. This program includes the fiscal stimuli distributed since the end of February. Currently the program has a total budget of IDR 695 trillion; however, its implementation is challenged by various obstacles that require solution support.

Further augmenting government capacities to support the safe return and stabilization of Indonesian migrant workers – including seafarers and fishers – cut off from their economic livelihoods, including addressing protection needs and strengthening recovery prospects.