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Emma Connors
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Singapore/Jakarta | Stranded Australians want the Morrison government to help bring them home from Indonesia, where commercial flight options are extremely limited and the pandemic is straining fragile health and hospital systems.

Indonesia has recorded a million new cases of COVID-19 in the past month and it is unclear when the outbreak will peak. More people are now dying of the disease in the country than anywhere else in the world. One in every 100 of the 82,013 COVID-19 deaths has been that of a child.

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Emma Connors was South-east Asia correspondent from October 2019 until mid-2023, based in Jakarta and Singapore. She has previously edited Perspective and Opinion and has written extensively across the AFR and related titles. Connect with Emma on Twitter. Email Emma at emma.connors@nine.com.au

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