How accurate the COVID-19 data in Indonesia?

In Indonesia, many people doubt the COVID-19 data issued by the government, because the ratio of samples to the population are much smaller, hence the actual figures could be much higher than than reported.

A municipality worker walks among graves at a cemetery complex provided by the government for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) victims in Jakarta, Indonesia Source: Reuters

Data issues in the corona virus pandemic are very important because they will be used as benchmarks for policy making.

This doubt on the figures has led to several parties forming a body that monitors the data such as laporcovid19.org who carrying out their own data collection assisted by volunteers.

Ahmad Arif, the coordinator of this movement briefly explained the data problems in Indonesia related to Covid 19 and the improvements that can be made.

 

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