Indonesia a global pariah?: The Jakarta Post

A vaccinator administers a Covid-19 vaccine to a foreigner during a vaccination drive in Sanur, Denpasar, Bali on June 22, 2021. Around 500 foreigners have received their second shot of a vaccine in the city. - Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): When the World Bank downgraded Indonesia to the lower-middle-income group of countries early last month we could not do much about it as it also happened to other economies hit hard by a crisis stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

But when a number of countries began to evacuate their citizens from Indonesia and imposed travel bans to the archipelago, we should think deeply about how to make amends for the messy handling of the pandemic.