Opinion
Nothing-to-see-here strategy hides grave crisis
The scale of Indonesia’s pandemic crisis is a failure of leadership, but President Joko Widodo’s government is caught in a cycle of spin.
Liam GammonContributorTwo genres of viral video encapsulate Indonesia’s devastating wave of COVID-19 infections over the past six weeks.
In the one most familiar to international audiences, the pandemic’s victims struggle to breathe in tents in hospital carparks, or desperate family members go from hospital to hospital looking for somewhere with capacity to treat their loved ones.
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