Being homeless in Jakarta during the pandemic | Video
The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on the thousands of poor people sleeping rough on the streets of Jakarta. Buskers, panhandlers and scavengers have seen their small income shrink even further after Indonesia tightened restrictions to fight the Omicron variant. Many also lack access to government handouts or vaccination programmes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on the thousands of poor people sleeping rough on the streets of Jakarta. Buskers, panhandlers and scavengers have seen their small income shrink even further after Indonesia tightened restrictions to fight the Omicron variant. Many also lack access to government handouts or vaccination programmes.