JAKARTA June 28 (The Straits Times/ANN): Indonesia is facing an uphill challenge during a transition period towards a new normal in many cities as people joined crowds, disobeyed health protocols, and resisted mass testing for the coronavirus.
The national Covid-19 task force highlighted on Saturday incidents ranging from people hijacking the body of a Covid-19 patient being transported by hospital staff to a gravesite, wet market traders shunning mass testing, to a nightclub urging customers to delete social media posts on a party the night before.
The mob who overpowered the two police officers took out the corpse and left the coffin on the street. Four sons and in-laws of the dead woman later tested positive for Covid-19 and were declared crime suspects by police over flouting criminal and health quarantine laws. They may face a jail term of at least five years.
In Pekanbaru, Riau province, wet market traders, including those in Sukaramai centre, chose to close shop and go home when officers in hazmat suits went to conduct a mass swab testing. This also happened in other markets in other cities including Jakarta, where traders said they were worried they would be barred from working for weeks if they tested positive.
Earlier this week, the Jakarta administration suspended again a weekend car-free day on its main thoroughfare Thamrin-Sudirman, when residents get to bike and jog in the morning along the road, just when the event was reopened only the previous week. The weekly event had been closed since mid-March.
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