State Budget for the People’s Welfare

The key to economic recovery is overcoming the pandemic. As long as social restrictions continue, investment growth will remain low due to weak demand. Other economic activities have also slowed.

Editor\'s Note

Kompas held an economic discussion with the theme "2022 State Budget for Growth and Equitable Welfare". The panelists included the rector of Atma Jaya Catholic University (Unika) Jakarta, A. Prasetyantoko; SMERU Research Institute researcher Athia Yumna; the head of the Finance Ministry’s Fiscal Policy Agency, Febrio N Kacaribu; and lecturer at the University of Indonesia’s School of Economics and Business, M Chatib Basri.