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Diageo Indonesia, a global leader in the British alcoholic beverage industry with leading brands including Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness, on 20 August 2021, officially handed over 50 units of oxygen concentrators to the Ministry of Industry. This initiative is Diageo Indonesia's commitment to contribute in accelerating Indonesia's recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic. The oxygen concentrators that Diageo provided was Philips Resipronics Everflo, which were imported from the UK and can produce 5 liters of high concentration oxygen per minute. Oxygen concentrators have also become an important tool for treating COVID-19 patients with low blood oxygen levels found in many cases.

In line with what was conveyed by the Director General of Agro Industry, Diageo Indonesia’s Managing Director, Puneet Narang, also said that, "The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on public health and the economy anywhere in the world, including Indonesia. We continue to look for opportunities to actively participate in accelerating recovery efforts, and we believe medical infrastructure such as these concentrators can help Indonesia's recovery in a sustainable manner.” This Diageo Indonesia initiative is part of Diageo's global commitment to actively assist countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic where Diageo operates.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic occurred in March 2020, Diageo Indonesia has donated alcohol to produce more than 120,000 bottles of hand sanitizers. Together with the Ministry of Industry, the Tabanan Regency Government, and BPOM Denpasar, the hand sanitizers were distributed to frontline health workers and people in need.

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EuroCham was invited by the Ministry of Transportation to a Multi-stakeholders Discussion on 24 September 2021 titled, “Financial Design of the Intermodal Freight Transport”, jointly organized by GIZ under the TRANSfer III programme. This multi-stakeholder discussion invited relevant stakeholders as well as policy makers from the Government to jointly discuss a Financial Design Study that is expected to assist the integration of freight transport on roads and rails as an effort to improve the competitiveness of Indonesia's transportation and logistics. Thereby creating synergies to support Indonesia's economic growth.

This Financial Design aims to set a high-level financing concept that estimates the costs and revenues of various measures or interventions that had been identified under the Technical Assessment and Impact Assessment conducted in 2020 as well as to evaluate the financial and economic feasibility, as well as outlining feasible financing mechanism options for the implementation of activities. This study is expected to provide an illustration regarding the several interventions that can be carried out in order to increase the market share of intermodal freight transport, especially in an effort to increase the market share of rail transport.