Indonesia: Little Transparency in COVID-19 Outbreak

Expand Cemetery workers burying a victim from the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, during a funeral in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 7, 2020. © 2020 Yogi Aroon Sidabariba / INA Photo Agency / Sipa USA via AP Images (Jakarta) Indonesia’s government is failing to provide transparency and access to information to battle the COVID-19 outbreak, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have been charging people under abusive criminal defamation laws for their online comments about the coronavirus and the government’s response. Indonesian officials admit that government reporting on the virus outbreak…

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