UNFINISHED BUSINESS The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis on Pandemic Era

Given the ongoing pandemic, many entrepreneurs and the business world have been hampered by the current COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, Airlangga University held a webinar with the theme UNFINISHED BUSINESS The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis on Pandemic Era. There were several speakers such as Prof. Dr. Nasrudin, Amak Yaqoub, Desiree Muntu, and Erwin Rahadiyanto.

Several speakers who were present expressed their thoughts and aspirations. According to Prof. Dr. Nasrudin, according to him, this pandemic has four points of view. First he saw it as a disaster, then as a challenge, as an opportunity, and what a lesson. As a disaster, where this pandemic has damaged most or even almost the entire order of the world, which was once neat, has become a mess as we see it today. A disaster sent down by the Almighty certainly has its own purpose to be a challenge for us and to explore new things for all of us. Then in terms of our own opportunities, of course, we can unite in tackling the pandemic so that we can have the opportunity to respond in a positive way, especially from a religious perspective. Then explore yourself to present and produce something that is useful for the community later.

Then, the development of biotechnology-based entrepreneurship which according to Amak Yaqoub himself argues that one of the causes of the lack of COVID therapy drugs is because 95% of medicinal ingredients in Indonesia are imported, so the government is very limited in executing the supply of medicines. In addition, in terms of biotechnology ranking, Indonesia itself is ranked 52 out of 54 countries surveyed. One of these calculations is evident from the average number of PHD in Indonesia in the field of religion, while PHD in the field of science itself is still very minimal.

In addition, regarding the potential that may fall during this pandemic, Desiree Muntu argues that we are actually stronger than what we imagine. During the pandemic, the order and various programs became irregular, forcing us to further upgrade our values, financial management, upgrade various skills and knowledge, update strategy, and palning strategy.