October 4, 2020 11:16 AMJAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo defended his record of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, asking for no “polemics” or “commotion” amid criticism that he is putting the economy over public health.
“I can say that the Covid handling in Indonesia has not been bad, indeed it has been quite good,” the president said in the statement on his official YouTube account, arguing the country’s total cases and death toll are lower than countries with comparably large populations. “Overcoming the pandemic is difficult, it requires hard work together, but I’m sure we can do it,” he said.
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