TRADEMARKS AND THE PROTECTION FOR BUSINESS ACTORS IN INDONESIA DURING COVID 19 OUTBREAK

The recognition of the Covid-19 (SARS CoV-2) outbreak as a global pandemic by WHO on March 11th, 2020, has brought impacts on various sectors including the economic sector. The Government of Indonesia is also striving to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 by establishing a large-scale social restriction policy in various regions. The determination of the large-scale social restriction policy, which requires people to undertake their activities at a distance (social distancing), has in fact caused considerable losses to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (hereafter MSMEs) because the demand and purchasing power of the community has dramatically decreased. This situation makes it difficult for MSMEs actors to pay instalments for business capital loans, which has the potential to increase the number of bad loans in the banking sector. This research is an empirical law study that aims to analyze the Government of Indonesia's policies in protecting micro, small, and medium enterprises from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The results of this research indicate that the strategies that must be implemented by the government in protecting MSMEs actors from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic are by relaxing and restructuring MSME loans, and providing stimulus in the form of working capital.