JAKARTA ¨C In the teeming, impoverished North Jakarta neighborhood of Muara Baru, people have made a grim joke out of the acronym for the Indonesian government¡¯s lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic: PPKM.
¡°Pelan Pelan Kita Mati,¡± Herdayati, a 48-year-old mother of six and sole breadwinner for a family living in a narrow, claustrophobic alley, said, explaining the gallows humor.
It means: ¡°Slowly, we die.¡±
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