ACCORDING to the manpower ministry’s records, the number of formal and informal workers sent home or laid off has grown. As of Tuesday, April 7, the number had exceeded 1.2 million people.

On the same day, Manpower Minister Ida Fauziah told Tempo’s Khairul Anam that the government had prepared to mitigate Covid-19’s impacts on the employment sector. The National Awakening Party (PKB) politician says that, for example, the pre-e