COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program

Indonesia needs better interoperability among the tiers of its government. In relation to public health, the effectiveness of the government’s initial response to the pandemic was limited by conflicting approaches. The lack of coordination within government; as evidenced particularly by conflicting public messages around social distancing especially in the early stages of the pandemic. These coordination issues were more apparent in the vertical relations between tiers of government than at inter-ministerial levels. They slowed the rate of disbursements of the National Recovery Program (PEN) especially in the first half of 2020.