Death tally omission throws spotlight over data problems in Indonesia


Indonesian women shopping for groceries at a market in Lhokseumawe, Aceh on Sunday (August 15, 2021). - AFP

JAKARTA, Aug 15 (Jakarta Post/ANN): The recent omission of the daily number of fatalities from the government’s assessment of the multi-tiered public activity restrictions (PPKM) has thrown the spotlight on the government’s Covid-19 data management, which remains mired in problems more than a year into the pandemic.

On Monday, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Panjdaitan, who leads the PPKM implementation in Java and Bali, said the government had excluded the tally of deaths from its assessment to determine the PPKM status of specific areas, stating that the current data were an "accumulation" of data from previous days.

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