In the Face of Death by Hunger

The pandemic causes millions of Indonesians to cascade into poverty. More are mere inches away from stepping into the same abyss.

Khairul Anam

August 16, 2021

OF the numerous types of bad luck out there, the only things that have not come into Hendra’s path are starvation and death. The 43-year-old man from Sukadamai, Bogor, West Java, has had to face one bad luck after another, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In March, Hendra was fired from his job stitching and gluing sandals at a workshop. Soon after, his wife said she wanted to go back to her parents’ house. Two months later, she fil

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