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Singapore: On an ordinary day Jakarta motorcycle taxi driver Uwok, as he is known in his neighbourhood, would have three or four customers.
For each fare, he would be paid the equivalent of about $3.20, enough for him and wife Sundari, a street food vendor, and their two teenage daughters to get by.
Military and police are being deployed to enforce movement restrictions in Jakarta.
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With Indonesia’s capital and large swathes of the country under limits of movement and gathering to curb a COVID outbreak driven by the Delta strain, however, business is not so good.
On Tuesday, when the 43-year-old spoke to
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