Indonesia's GDP to fall further as Covid-19 death death toll goes above 10,000

Residents distribute staple food in their neighborhood in Tengah subdistrict, Kramat Jati, East Jakarta. Indonesia’s economy may contract more than expected if the coronavirus pandemic remains uncontrolled, the World Bank said on Tuesday (Sept 29,2020). - The Jakarta Post/Asian News Network

JAKARTA, Sept 29 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia’s economy could contract more than expected if the coronavirus pandemic remains uncontrolled, as South-East Asia’s largest economy faces an “uneven and volatile” economic recovery, the World Bank says.

On Tuesday, Indonesia confirmed that Covid-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 4,002 in the past 24 hours to total 282,724, with 128 more deaths to raise the death toll to 10,601,