<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="Research Article" dtd-version="1.0"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">iarjbm</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">IARJBM</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IARJBM</journal-id><issn>2708-5147</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjbm.2021.v02i01.016</article-id><title-group><article-title>Economic Strengthening Measures as an Impact of Covid-19 in Indonesia</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Untung</given-names><surname>Lasiyono</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-a" /></contrib-group><aff-id id="aff-a">Lecturer at the Accounting Study Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya</aff-id><abstract>This article describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Indonesia's economic life.&amp;nbsp;As it is known that this pandemic has an impact on the health and even the safety of human souls.&amp;nbsp;The Indonesian government is facing this pandemic by adopting a policy aimed at saving human lives in Indonesia with a policy of limiting large-scale activities on all lines including those containing economic activities. As an impact on economic life, there is a closure of industrial or production activities, there are restrictions on economic activities that involve direct human contact and the like.&amp;nbsp;This is what causes economic life to be disrupted, there are many unemployed people, the people's purchasing power decreases, which in turn causes the national economy to decline. Facing these problems, so that economic life continues to run based on the people's economy, what must be done is&amp;nbsp;three things first, strengthening micro, small and medium enterprises that involve the community, especially the middle and lower levels, second, activating cooperative business forms that involve the community's level. middle to lower also, and third, strengthening the mastery of information technology in micro, small and medium enterprises and cooperatives so that they can carry out virtual transactions or market activities.</abstract></article-meta></front><body /><back /></article>