Jakarta´s poor at risk as city drags feet on COVID-19 social assistance
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Shares The Jakarta administration’s sluggish delivery of crucial social assistance funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak is putting the city’s underprivileged citizens at a higher risk of slipping into destitution the longer the crisis stretches on. On March 20, five days after the city started closing down schools and tourist destinations to curb the spread of the disease, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said that the administration would be disbursing social assistance to 1.1 million registered beneficiaries. At the time, Jakarta officials were still formulating the amount and method of disbursement. Fast forward to Thursday, at a teleconference meeting with Vice President...