Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to stop the spread of COVID-19 hit the poor and informal workers in Indonesia particularly hard. Does the government of Indonesia’s (GoI) social protection and labor response consider those most in need?
Government and private actions to contain the spread of COVID-19 As of April 26th, 2020, 8,882 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 743 deaths attributed to the disease were reported (Coronavirus Resource Centre, 2020). After some latency, the GoI set in motion a number of NPIs to slow down the spread of COVID-19 around the archipelago. These actions culminated in the declaration of a public health emergency by President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on March 31st (Sutrisno, 2020). The imposed
large-scale social restrictions include...
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