South Sulawesi residents’ low trust in government explains why people there did not take much efforts to protect themselves, despite feelings that they were at risk from COVID-19.
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Program Officer at The Australia-Indonesia Centre, Australia-Indonesia Centre
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Lead, Communications and Outreach, Australia-Indonesia Centre
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Dean on Academic, Research and Innovation School of Public Health, Universitas Hasanuddin
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Human Ecology Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Associate professor, Universitas Hasanuddin
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor, Universitas Hasanuddin
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Associate Professor of Law, Monash University
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Sharon Bessell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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The University of Queensland
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Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Hasanuddin University, Australia-Indonesia Centre
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PhD Candidate in Criminology, The University of Melbourne