Jakarta Sends Civil Servants to Work From Home to Clear Smog
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Jakarta’s civil servants will work from home for two months as the government seeks to clear air pollution that’s left President Joko Widodo coughing for weeks.
Half of the civil servants will work from home starting Monday, before 75% of them would do so from next month through Oct. 21, according to an order by the capital’s interim governor as reported by local media. The smog that’s choking Jakarta threatens to cast a shadow over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit which will be held on Sept. 5-7.