On Wednesday, 6 May 2020, BritCham Indonesia is proud to have hosted the webinar “DKI Jakarta Takes on COVID-19; Business Communities Have Roles and Responsibilities”  featuring Wijayanto Samirin, the Senior Economic Adviser to the  Governor of Jakarta and Dimitris Kostianis, Managing Director of PZ  Cussons Asia. This webinar is proudly supported by British School  Jakarta and JIIPE, and was an interactive session with over 60  attendees.

The session began with a presentation by Pak Wijayanto on the  overview of the COVID-19 situation in Jakarta. This included a detailed  explanation on the government initiatives in response to this problem.  Then, Dimitris shared on how his company has responded to the Government  guidance on supporting the community during these hard times. Questions  from the attendees as well as other concerns such as sourcing of  medical facilities, health and safety regulations in companies in  regards to the COVID-19 crisis, as well as continuity of education  during and after the pandemic.

We would like to thank Pak Wijayanto Samirin, Dimitris Kostianis,  British School Jakarta, JIIPE and all the attendees for attending this  webinar. BritCham Indonesia is committed to offering relevant webinars  aimed at providing solutions to problems faced in this current crisis.

It’s been 2 months since Presiden Jokowi announced the first confirm COVID -19 case in Indonesia and since then some of companies have set a regulation on working from home for their employees

With that in mind, how is the regulation working so far?

Will this type of regulation can be applied in the future once the pandemic crisis is over?

In this podcast we’ve invited our members from

Swire Properties, PT GNV Consulting, PT VIstra International Expansion, and InterContinental Jakarta Pondok Indah to share their experience.

On April 30th, BritCham held another webinar series, this time with the Director General of British Chamber of Commerce, to discussed updates in regards of COVID-19

The Ramadhan season just started a couple of days ago.

But With this pandemic crisis, and the Large Scale Social Restriction regulation that occur across Indonesia the tradition has swift from previous years.

In this podcast we’ve invited BritCham’s Executive team, Hanny, Jihan &Septi to share their experience of Ramadhan during pandemic crisis.

On Thursday, 23 April BritCham held another webinar series, this time to discuss cash flow strategies & the need to think beyond these distressed times.

With speakers : VIdo Kumar, Chief Growth Officer of Magna Praxis, James Allan, Country Head of JLL Indonesia and Stewart Hall, President Director of QNB Indonesia, the discussion went on how managing financial commitments and to fund future opportunities, what could possibly be postponed and renegotiated, and on keeping clients loyal and continue to refresh and keep your service relevant.

For more on the materials, you can see it in our website www.britcham.or.id

Last week in our podcast, we’ve discussed how the current pandemic has affected our members’ companies and their point of view on No Mudik campaign.

With the low income and tight budget, businessess are now facing a hard decision on giving religious holiday allowance or known as THR to their employees for Idul Fitri.

Based on the last Snap Poll, 80% of our members are willing to give THR in full during the festive day whilst the rest are considering to give it in some other time or not at all.

In this podcast we’ve invited Britcham’s Executive team, Yue, Yunita and Marsha to share their point of view regarding the issue. 

Should the company gave THR to employee during these hard times? 

Is it fair to not give THR for employees during this festive seasons, despite there are some potential that they are not going home?

The Vast majority of businesses face excruciating business decisions as  the global pandemic shows little sign of relenting in the near term.   For many businesses staffing is a significant overhead and might be  regarded as the easiest route to cut cost. Easy maybe, but would that be  wise given that your people resource will be the main thrust out of the  crisis and into recovery?

In this webinar Sylvano Damanik, Vice Chairman of Korn Ferry Indonesia  extracted and examined the human resource responses from a recent Korn  Ferry survey of SOEs and the private sector. Steven Marcelino, ASEAN  Capital Market Lead of Accenture UK and Chairman of Global Indonesia  Professionals' Association (GIPA) will anecdotally share thinking across  Accenture ASEAN Clients.

This present crisis throws up all the challenges facing governments, the  healthcare sector, companies, small businesses and the working  population. But, there is little talk about the huge disruption that  parents and younger face with regard to education and career choices.

Following on from our two previous podcast discussions with BritCham Indonesia’s Executive Team and parents on the campaign of “No Mudik”, we are now pleased to talk to some businesses from different sectors on some of their staff challenges and their policy around the forthcoming festive season. 

In this podcast we are delighted to offer thoughts from our corporate members: PT. Unilever Indonesia, Penny Growing, PT Kelly’s Express, The Sultan Hotel & Residence, PT Hill Konsultan Indonesia, and YouGov. They share some insight not just on the current update of the company’s during this pandemic crisis, their view of the ‘No Mudik’ campaign and the different considerations for their staff and the wider Indonesian public.

With the current pandemic situation and Ramadhan season is approaching the situation in Indonesia is getting tricky, especially with the traditions of Mudik or Going Home.

The government then being proactive and started a campaign of “No Mudik or No Going Home”. Various response came from the people, especially this is a tradition within Eid Fitr. More details on the campaign : britcham.or.id

The following podcast is the comment of our BritCham Team from various background on the campaign of “No Mudik”