Another disaster seems to strike and rub salt in our wounds while we are still mourning and trying to recover from the one before. Earthquakes, tsunamis, long droughts, bush fires, a mud volcano, and the most recent floods and landslides, all struck in succession at different regions of the nation.
The economy of the victims in the disaster areas is extremely constricted despite all the aid that has poured in. We at Bank Indonesia have asked the banking industry to provide special allowance for credits to business enterprises throughout the nation that are affected by the disaster. We hope that this will further assist them with the establishment and reconstruction of their business ventures.