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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Hotels and restaurants are the subsectors most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and are expected to improve more recently compared to other sectors. In DKI Jakarta until 2019 there are 991 hotels consisting of. 397 star hotels, 594 starless hotels and tens of thousands of restaurants.
Sutrisno Iwantono, President of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Indonesian Restaurant Association (PHRI) Regional Leadership Body, Sutrisno Iwantono said that currently the average occupancy rate has fallen in the last 5 years. Typically occupancy is between 70% and 56% and many are now operating well below 25%.
“We recommend that the government create a special program for both foreign and domestic tourists to stay in Jakarta for several days to stay at our hotel, eat at our restaurant and visit various tourist objects,” Iwantono said in a virtual press conference. on Sunday (01/17/2021).
“We also agreed to build an Awakening Movement so that hotel and restaurant businesses do not get worse and can pick themselves up in 2021 so as not to cause serious losses to owners and cause prolonged suffering,” he continued.
They are also the government to help ease the economic burdens of costs that can cause the collapse of the industry. PB1 taxes, Corporate taxes, PBB, advertising taxes, groundwater taxes, electricity costs, labor levies and other levies to mitigate.
Taxes for hotels and restaurants and small shops should also be relaxed. The taxes are final, the figure of 4.8 billion rupees for small businesses is now considered too small and should be increased to at least 7.5 billion rupees.
So there must be an improvement – the demand for hotel and restaurant businesses that are currently far from standard status.
“The meeting of the government and state companies should be held again in Jakarta in order to employ hotels and restaurants,” he said.
Meanwhile, in relation to the Employment Creation Law that is currently being formulated by Government Regulation, PHRI supports that licenses are lighter for hotels and restaurants, such as certificates of proper operation, risk-based licenses, OSS simpler and longer term.
“We support that licensing is valid forever as long as there are no fundamental changes,” Iwantono said.
Another recommendation is that it is considered that not all tourist businesses are required to have SLF to obtain a business license, since many of the tourist commercial buildings are old buildings or formerly residential buildings such as tourist cabins, tourist houses, villas, restaurants, restaurants , cafes and catering services. That way, if SLF becomes a mandatory requirement, it will cause existing businesses to collapse.
We also ask that the investment is not too open to foreigners, for example current investment above 10 billion rupees may be foreign. For hotels, small restaurants in the tourism sector must be maintained to survive. We have relayed it to BKPM, but BKPM is very tough about it. with this investment, ”he said.
Then, to other small hotels, lodgings, restaurants, stalls and small positions, ask that the work arrangements be left to negotiations between the employer and the employer.
PHRI also requested that the PSBB arrangement for hotels and restaurants be relaxed, such as working hours and operating procedures because hotels and restaurants are not broadcast groups and are much more disciplined in implementing health protocols.
“The obligation to test the swab or antigen should be lightened because the cost is quite high. The provision to do mandatory testing every 14 days is quite heavy, unless it is assisted by subsidies for testing fees,” he said.
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