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COVID-19 cases are soaring in Indonesia. Can a new health minister turn things around?
Dyna Rochmyaningsih Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.A new face at the helm of Indonesia’s Ministry of Health has raised scientists’ hopes that the country may take a more scientific approach to its increasingly desperate struggle with COVID-19. In a 22 December 2020 cabinet reshuffle, Indonesian President Joko Widodo named Budi Gunadi Sadikin, who has a degree in nuclear physics, as health minister.