Introduction: Indigenous People in the Struggle Against COVID-19
摘要
This chapter contains the background that explains why the COVID-19 pandemic should be seen beyond the health problems. In this chapter, Putri et al. reveal the importance of gaining better understanding about the COVID-19 pandemic through a sociodemographic perspective and illustrate the reasons why the indigenous people are considered to be a vulnerable group that is at higher risk of exposure to the pandemic. However, we also question whether indigenous peoples are the most vulnerable groups or resilient in facing the COVID-19 pandemic. The second subtitle describes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on indigenous people from previous studies, especially related to demographics such as mobility patterns, fertility rates, mortality rates, and livelihood. Besides the vulnerabilities and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that are understood from sociodemographic perspectives, this chapter also represents how indigenous peoples perceive, respond, and adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Putri et al. explain the data source and locus of indigenous people where we researched and provide detailed information regarding indigenous people who are learned in our research.