In the face of patchy data and conflicting advice from Indonesia’s central government over measures to fight the coronavirus, a volunteer group has emerged as an increasingly important source of information and guidance by stanleywidianto f_potkin
JAKARTA - As Indonesia’s most populous province weighed tough movement restrictions to stop the new coronavirus, it turned to a loosely-knit volunteer group of data scientists and health experts.
Kawal has set out a clear argument for tougher action in the Southeast Asian country with the biggest death toll in the region by far. The president’s office, the health ministry, and the communications ministry referred questions on Kawal to the presidential task force on COVID-19. However, Achmad Yurianto, the spokesman for the task force, told Reuters he had never heard of the group.“This is learning by doing. We’ve never had an experience in handling COVID, right?” Yurianto said.
It is not the only initiative in the field in Indonesia’s booming technology sector. Another one, Lapor COVID-19 seeks to crowdsource coronavirus information.
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