JAKARTA – The resurgence of diseases that were once controlled has exposed a weakness in the Indonesian government’s preventive health policy, experts say, following measles outbreaks in multiple regions over the past eight months.
Incidences of measles, a highly contagious viral disease that was previously under control until 2021, have totalled nearly 3,500 confirmed cases nationwide since January across at least 42 regions, including Jakarta, Banten and East Java’s Sumenep regency.