Millions of Indonesians have been thrown into poverty in recent months and are struggling to make ends meet. Alarmed by how the coronavirus pandemic has left many destitute, a group of volunteers is providing free meals to vulnerable daily wage earners
An elderly man gets free food from a volunteer amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 16, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
The volunteers jump on their motorbikes to distribute free food packages around four times a week for the fast breaking time during Ramadan in Depok, a satellite town on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta. The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan is widely observed in the Muslim-majority country. The coronavirus outbreak has cost some 2 million people their jobs in just six weeks, the country’s finance minister said in early May, adding that the country’s efforts to eradicate poverty had been set back by a decade.
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