JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities complained on Wednesday (Jun 24) that hundreds of people had refused testing for COVID-19 as social taboos emerge ...
JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities complained on Wednesday that hundreds of people had refused testing for COVID-19 as social taboos emerge as another obstacle to stopping its spread in the world’s fourth-most populous nation.
In Bali, authorities had aimed to test 2,200 traders in the area of Tabanan but on Tuesday 200 traders failed to turn up.“They are afraid of the stigma,” Klungkung Regent Nyoman Suwirta, told Reuters, “That later if it is discovered they will have to be isolated."“Maybe there is fear, maybe there is trauma, we need to explore the reasons why,” said Jasman Rizal, the spokesperson of West Sumatra's COVID-19 Taskforce. “The government must take persuasive action and educate.
The application of social distancing measures has varied across the country, with some communities paying little heed to them.
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