Indonesian schoolkids: in praise of creativity
This video about fake medicines by schoolboy in Magelang makes me wish he were in charge of public health messaging nationally.
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Medicine chain gang
Indonesia has great data on COVID. Does anyone want to look at it?
The Indonesian government forgot to buy medicines. Now what?
Capital punishment: Jokowi’s shameful move to PPU
Clowns demand more of Indonesia’s political circus
Indonesian kids are starving to death: where are the health services?
Don’t make martyrs of religious-themed thugs: lessons from Egypt
In memory of 170,000 Indonesians. Or not.
Is invisibility the price of success for Indonesia?
To celebrate Indonesia’s 72nd birthday, I post a talk I gave at TED Global in 2014, musing about why the country was so invisible internationally. I reasoned that successful multi-cultural democracies don’t make the headlines. Would I give the same talk now?