Police have ordered retailers to ration purchases of staple foods to contain panic buying amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the South-East Asian country, while the president weighed up a cut in fuel prices to reflect tumbling oil prices.
Indonesians have been stocking up on basic necessities, as well as medical supplies, since President Joko Widodo announced the first confirmed cases of the disease in the world’s fourth most populous country on March 2.
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