FMT in partnership with The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) brings you Covid-19 “healer” from Indonesia.
For over four months, people in Bandung have stayed at home with limited ability to engage in outside activity.
Even as people protect themselves from the coronavirus, they are still at risk from mosquitoes carrying dengue fever.
Ujang and Asep, two local village officers, are fumigating a densely-populated area in Girimekar Permai Village in West Java to kill dengue mosquitoes.
They struggle to fumigate homes in a manner that protects them from both mosquitoes and the coronavirus.
They work in other villages to both control the spread of several diseases, using sanitising chemicals placed into their fog gun.
Their work is classified as “gotong-royong” (working together with voluntarism spirit), as social work done for little pay.
Bastian A. Saputra, lives in Bandung City, Indonesia. He has worked in a national non-profit organisation for a decade. Bastain is involved in documenting photo stories in a project for several NGOs as well as sharing his experience related to the new photo storybook produced early called “The 2020 Inclusive Photo Project”. View his portfolio here.
‘The Other Hundred Healers’ is an initiative by the non-profit organisation GIFT. The 240-page, full-colour, hardcover book can be purchased here at US$40 per copy for a minimum order of 20 copies.
