New Committee, No Strategy
The government seems to have lost its way in dealing with the pandemic. The effectiveness of the Covid-19 response and national economic recovery committee is open to question.
Tempo
July 27, 2020
THE decision by President Joko Widodo to dissolve the Covid-19 task force and transfer its functions to the Covid-19 Response and National Economic Recovery Committee is an extravagance. The President should optimize the existing ministries and agencies rather than establish a new body that only adds to the bureaucracy and wastes government funds.
Established by Presidential Regulation No. 82/2020, the effectiveness of this committee is ope
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