Indonesia, like every nation across the globe, faced the full, devastating force of the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel coronavirus outbreak that upended daily life, strained public health systems, and separated communities from the in-person connections that anchor collective well-being. As the virus spread, hundreds of thousands of people around the world contracted the illness, with tens of thousands losing their lives, and Indonesia’s own toll reflected that global crisis: thousands of residents tested positive, large-scale social restrictions were implemented to slow transmission, and hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were forced to stay in their homes to prevent the outbreak from growing wider.