Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Elite interests continue to dominate Indonesia’s pandemic response at a national level, but there’s community resilience at the grassroots.
Business investment in Indonesia has grown dramatically in recent years, and business-related human rights violations have continued unabated.
Indonesia has been widely criticised for a weak national response to COVID-19. But sub-national governments have also played an important role.
COVID-19 has highlighted the need for informal food networks and the essential role that women play in creating and sustaining them.
Work on gender quality, such as the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence, is made more difficult by coronavirus.
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