Farmers plant rice during the second planting season in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic near the village of Tunggulwulung in Malang, East Java, on April 10. (JP/Aman Rochman)
Shortages in key commodities have been reported in most of Indonesia’s 34 provinces as the nation copes with the double whammy of the coronavirus outbreak causing supply chain disruption and a dry spell hurting harvests.
Garlic, sugar, chili and chicken eggs are in short supply in more than 20 provinces, while rice, a staple food for Indonesians, is in deficit in seven provinces across the archipelago, according to government data presented by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
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