Indonesia deploys troops to enforce new viral normal - Asia Times
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As of May 27, Indonesia had 23,135 cases and 1,418 deaths; of those, 6,895 infections and 509 deaths were in Jakarta and 2,974 cases and 208 deaths were in West Java and Banten, the provinces surrounding the capital.
But many regions outside of Java continue to confound experts with few infections and little anecdotal evidence that the pandemic has had any real impact at all.Leading those is Aceh, the Sharia-ruled region on the tip of Sumatra island, which has only 19 recorded cases and no deaths. A recent front page picture showed worshippers crammed together in a mosque, many of them without masks. The tourist island of Bali, initially seen as a potential disaster area because of its many Chinese visitors and cruise ship employees, presents an equally baffling case. So far it has recorded only 407 cases and four deaths, all the fatalities from weeks ago.
Twenty of Indonesia’s provinces have 10 or less Covid-19 deaths, with the Bangka Belitung Islands south of Singapore and East Nusa Tenggara, part of the island chain east of Bali, still recording only one fatality.
Interestingly, Widodo has picked out neighboring West Nusa Tenggara, along with East Java, South Sulawesi, South Sumatra, South Kalimantan and Papua, as provinces deserving of special attention because of escalating rates of infection. Transportation data suggests only a minority of Jakartans actually defied the government’s ban on mudik, the annual post-Ramadan pilgrimage to home towns and villages which normally takes place in the week after the fasting month. But it has been difficult to draw conclusions about population movements because as many as 1.3 million people are estimated to have left Greater Jakarta by mid-April, before the start of Ramadan, either because they had lost their jobs or were on furlough.
Still, the fact that traffic on toll roads leading out of the capital was down to a comparative trickle on May 23 showed people generally heeded messages on billboards, television and radio that they should resist traveling home until later in the year
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