Multiplying after the Memorial Service
Covid-19 cases spike in villages goes on undetected. People suspected to have contracted the virus chose not to take swab tests. Local governments are scrambling to trace them, while residents of customary villages prefer not to rely on the government.
Devy Ernis
August 9, 2021
ADITYA—not his real name—is confused every time he hears the mosque’s announcement that a resident passed away in Perak village in Pariaman, West Sumatra. The man from Jakarta has been living in the village at his aunt’s house since June 20. Since then, at least once a day the mosque announces that someone had died. Aditya is confused because none of his family members, or the neighbors, ever mentioned if those people who
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