It is important to target monitoring at end-state outcomes. Due to the lockdowns and mobility restrictions; early difficulty in the speed of PEN disbursements was unavoidable. Although the government recognized the need for urgent rollout; poor infrastructure raised the risk of leakage through corruption and led to a slower and more cautious approach than would otherwise have been optimal. A lesson to be drawn from the experience involves the need to target monitoring activities at end-state outcomes. Indonesian reporting systems made it relatively easy to track the overall volume of disbursements by the government throughout the program. In the case of social assistance measures and some micro; small; and medium enterprise measures; however; tracking the final impact of those disbursements proved more difficult.
COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program