With the death toll from COVID-19 in Indonesia reaching 21,000 since the country reported its first cases in March and the economy continuing to linger in the doldrums, Indonesians waving goodbye to 2020 have little reason for high hopes in 2021, but the promise of mass vaccination has somehow aroused optimism. For many watching the news on television or scrolling through social media feeds, the death toll from COVID-19 appears merely as charts and numbers, but for those who have lost their loved ones to the coronavirus in 2020, the experience has been traumatic and the pain has been all too real. For Anya, not her real name, the coronavirus struck so quickly that she did not have time to say goodbye to her mother. In April, she had to fly back to Jakarta in a rush from Europe, only to attend her mother's funeral at a distance. “It's indescribable how isolating it i…