SINCE the start of this year, the chairman of the national disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) has been kept busy by a myriad of natural disasters- floods in Jakarta and the surrounding areas; landslides in Sukajaya, West Java; to flash floods that ravaged Sangihe, North Sulawesi.

Alas, as he still scrambled to mitigate the calamities, Doni faced an even bigger challenge from the new coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei