Peter Fanning is an Australia lawyer living in Jakarta and secretary of the Indonesia Australia Business Council who has lived in Jakarta since 1996 and served on the IABC board since 2000. In addition to his years of services to IABC, he voluntarily started a newsletter in April 2020 to inform and update Australians and others in Indonesia about the country’s complex Covid-19 health environment.
He supplied weekly updates on the evolving crisis with statistical data and health regulations but never imagined it the service would have such a long life. His initial motivation was to serve the information needs of IABC members, but such was the reliability of the service, it gained currency beyond its core audience in both Indonesia and Australia.