Jeremy Wagstaff writes: This episode is about Dinny, an Indonesian friend who has a particular vantage point from which to watch the Coronavirus saga. She has long dumped the polluted streets of Jakarta for the highland life of her husband's Toraja homeland. Dinny runs a small company that employs local weavers. When I caught up with her she was in reflective mood: it was changing her compatriots already in startling ways, but was all this the fulfilment of a prediction not from the animism of her adopted homeland, but something altogether more recent?

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