Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said the realization of the pandemic handling budget and the National Economic Recovery Program (PEN) until August 2020 reached IDR 173.98 trillion or 25% of the IDR 695.2 trillion total budget. In detail, the health budget up to August 19 was 8.4% of the Rp 87.55 trillion ceiling. Second, the realization of social protection is equal to 49.7% of the total budget of IDR 203.91 trillion. Then the sectoral budget of ministries/agencies and regional governments was realized 13.1% of the ceiling of Rp 106.05 trillion. Then, for the business incentive sector stimulus, the realization of the budget was 14.3% of the Rp 120.61 trillion ceiling. Furthermore, the realization of the support budget for MSMEs reached 37.2% of the ceiling of Rp 123.47 trillion. Finally, the realization of corporate financing is still 0%. (Investor Daily) The Federal Reserve has used only a fraction of the $600 billion in an emergency lending program for small and medium businesses struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a congressional watchdog report. Eligible lenders participating in the Main Street program have issued $496.8 million in loans, of which $472 million is Federal Reserve money, or about 0.07% of the central bank’s lending capacity as of Wednesday, according to the report issued Friday. (Bloomberg) Source: Danareksa Sekuritas Debt Research