Indonesia’s finance minister flags recession risk


Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati: "We're preparing for all possibilities, so that the corporate sector and then the financial sector do not get hit by the domino effect of Covid-19".

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s economy faces the risk of recession this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, its finance minister said yesterday, adding that only a small amount of the government’s billion dollar budget to fight the crisis had been doled out.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati told an online briefing South-East Asia’s largest economy was expected to shrink in the April-June quarter by 3.1% from a year earlier – marking the first contraction since 1999.

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