How the Global Vaccine Divide Is Fueling Indonesia’s Coronavirus Catastrophe

“Overtaking India, Indonesia is now leading the world in new coronavirus cases and deaths. A mix of denial and dysfunction led to a catastrophic surge of infections in the world’s fourth most populous country. Wary of the economy, President Joko Widodo resisted calls for a lockdown to contain the virus. He bet instead on an ambitious mass inoculation program that is administering a million doses a day. But limited access to supply of effective vaccines is setting Indonesia back in this race against time.”

Click here to read this commentary by Sana Jaffrey, a nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is the director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), Jakarta.