7, 2020. (Antara Photo/Yulius Satria Wijaya) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo win the Indonesia Masters 2020 title in men's doubeles category on Januafter beating compatriots Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan at Istora Senayan in Central Jakarta. The New Year's flooding has claimed 66 lives according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).(Antara Photo/Muhammad Adimaja) President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visits Harkat Raya village in Sukajaya district, Bogor, West Java after the village was hit by landslide and flash flood on Jan. (Antara Photo/Aditya Pradana Putra) A resident in Kampung Baru, Kembangan, West Jakarta, comforts his child as water surrounds their house on Jan. January Jakarta residents brave the rain to celebrate New Year at the Hotel Indonesia Cricle in Central Jakarta on Dec. The global shutdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic have wiped out its income almost all year long. Bali depends largely on the tourism sector, which makes up around 80 percent of its revenues. October was the toughest period in my job because there were massive rallies against the newly-adopted Job Creation Law with people ignoring the social distancing rule.Īlso in that month I got a chance to visit Bali - Indonesia's most famous tourist attraction - that bears the brunt of the economic impact of the pandemic. I equip myself with all necessary protective gears from head to toe. I had to conquer my own fear and take risk to capture key moments amid an ongoing pandemic that infects and kills many people in Jakarta every day. Since then, Jakarta has been the hardest hit by the virus.Įach photo published in the Jakarta Globe for the past 12 months has been trying to capture the kaleidoscope of ordinary life in Jakarta, the country’s biggets city and the epicenter of the outbreak.Īs a photojournalist, I also had to endure a difficult year in which I had to go out and take pictures, while assuming that everyone could become an asymptomatic carrier of coronavirus, including myself. But there were signs that an imminent global pandemic would drastically change people’s way of life and it all started on March 2 when the government announced first confirmed cases of coronavirus.
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