The COVID-19 pandemic has hit urban poor women severely, including in Indonesia. The state as a duty-bearer with respect to human rights has struggled to assist them; more specifically, the state’s efforts in curbing the pandemic have not reached them.…

As some scholars argue, there is insufficient proof of the ‘neoliberal’ nature of the policies that outgoing Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has led. What has happened instead is an increase of local state capitalism, marked by the roles of local government-owned enterprises…