Opinion

It is shocking that the National Capital Region (NCR), has 8,245 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with a doubling duration (the span needed for the number of cases to double) of 5.53 days as of May 18, which was confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH). During the online hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Metro Manila …

It is undeniable that the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has a huge impact on people’s lives, including the economy in Indonesia. The business world was devastated by this pandemic. The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) said the number of unemployed due to the corona pandemic reached more than 10 million. The figure is calculated from the number of employees …

Positive social interactions can help us develop and sustain healthy mental wellbeing. Social interaction even allows us to properly control depression and also tends to enhance a variety of physical wellbeing effects. Sharing time with friends and relatives is one of most common ways of handling depression – and it works. Our families, friends, and co-workers. As friendships play a …

After Regulation of the Minister of Health (PMK) No. 9 of 2020 concerning the Guidelines for Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) to expedite the handling of Covid-19 published, a number of regions welcomed it by proposing restrictions in their respective regions. Jakarta started it through DKI Jakarta Governor Regulation (Pergub) Number 33 Year 2020 concerning PSBB in Jakarta. After, the PSBB …

In battling COVID-19, the Philippines approach has been very sensitive and more in population management, rather than emphasizing going to experiments to find and isolate the virus from further spread. In fact, the increasing number of COVID cases and the number of deaths was due to unavailability of testing and validation of the cases during this time. Some would consider …

For the past three months since Covid19 started outbreaking in Thailand, the Prayut Chan-o-cha administration has adjusted its handling of the pandemic. For the first 58 days, Gen Prayut continued to behave like a busboy in a local restaurant, trying to do everything from welcoming guests to serving food and cleaning tables. In a major shift of his leadership style, …

We have just entered the second phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO). What was fashionably referred to as “social distancing” has now given way to “physical distancing”, with having one metre as a physical measure for us to “safely” distance ourself with the other person. According to the World Health Organisation, 1m is the average distance for the droplets …

We are living in an era in which intersecting problems are being lifted to a global scale, with unprecedented levels of inequality, environmental destruction and climate destabilization, as well as new spikes in populism, conflict, economic insecurity and increasing threats to public health. Both of these are crises that slowly tip the balance, question our business-as-usual economic paradigm of the …

The lateness and lack of integration of the Indonesian government’s response to the spread of coronavirus or Covid-19 that has scared the public in the country even has killed patients tested positive of the virus, which has now been declared a global pandemic, causing anxiety and criticism. At the beginning of the virus outbreak in the country that was March …

The past 30 days in Malaysia has been a political rollercoaster, probably worse than watching a thriller horror movie. Malaysian politics had gone through a series of consequential moves, counter-plays, and reversals. Less than 22 months after the historic May 2018 election that ousted Malaysia’s long-ruling coalition, in-fighting within the new government exploded into the open. Tun Mahathir Mohamad resigned …