Indonesia COVID-19 Observatory

BRIEF October 19, 2021

Indonesia COVID-19 Observatory

www.worldbank.org/indonesia/covid19monitor

Set up in March 2020 with support of the Australian Government through the Partnership for Knowledge-Based Poverty Reduction Trust Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank Indonesia COVID-19 Observatory is a constellation of quick-deploying data collection efforts that respond to this demand. It aims to generate near-real-time insights on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and inform the policymaking process by identifying gaps that may require scaling up or redirecting of policy responses to under-covered areas as the crisis unfolds.

The observatory monitors:

Social media platforms while conducting rapid polls to solicit information on citizen knowledge, concerns, and sentiments, including policy responses.
Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on households through a national phone-based high-frequency (HiFy) survey that tracks impacts of COVID-19 on over 4,000 households during the emergency response and economic recovery phases of the pandemic.
Impacts on firms through surveys with a focus on merchants that sell on large online platforms.

Social Media Monitoring

Monitor select social media platforms and conduct rapid polls to solicit information on citizen knowledge, behaviors, concerns and sentiments, including towards government policy responses

High Frequency (HiFy) Household Survey

A nationally representative phone-based survey that tracks impacts of COVID-19 on over 4,000 households

Firm Surveys

Understand the impact of the pandemic on businesses and monitor their recovery, including on digital merchants

Brief Series

JANUARY 2023

When workers�� livelihoods were adversely affected by the pandemic-induced economic downturn, many had sought additional sources of income in e-commerce, which serves as an inclusive landscape for entrepreneurs from various backgrounds. However, not all of them are thriving.

FEBRUARY 2022

Using survey data from 15,238 respondents collected on one of Indonesia��s largest e-commerce platforms between December 21 and 25, 2020, we examined how female-owned businesses on e-marketplace platforms performed and how the government and platforms could help them survive and thrive during the pandemic and beyond.

November - December 2020

While most schools across Indonesia remained closed for face-toface learning, the vast majority of students were engaged in distance learning and a small minority had dropped out.

November - December 2020

Coverage of testing for COVID-19 slowly improved but remained much lower than in peer countries.

May 20- June 27, 2020

Online sales have been more resilient than offline sales, though Bukalapak merchants with certain characteristics were harder hit than others.

June 26, 2020

Without the emergency social assistance for households, Covid-19 could push between 5.5 and 8 million Indonesians into poverty

June 15 - 23, 2020

Firms across the provinces surveyed and in almost all sectors surveyed were negatively affected by the COVID-19 crisis.1 They were affected simultaneously by multiple channels.

01-17 May, 2020

With businesses closed and largescale mobility restrictions imposed after the Covid-19 outbreak, 24 percent of breadwinners �C mostly wage workers and non-farm business owners �C had stopped working by May 2020

April �C May, 2020

Discussion on COVID-19 in social media spiked around the time large-scale social restrictions were introduced and common topics of conversation revolved around health care, food access, and job loss.

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