The hospitals of full of patients gasping for breath on graves, air being hastily dug, the Southeast Asian nation officially passing a grim milestone Tuesday.

One million coronavirus cases.

The world's fourth most populous country has struggled since last March to get the covert 19 pandemic under control.

Deaths from the respiratory disease now total 28,468.

Those numbers are among the highest across Asia.

Health experts believe the true spread of the disease could be three times higher.

West Java has been facing some of the highest infection rates across the country.

Reuters spoke to residents in Boggle, a city south of Jakarta on Java island.

Thats situation is very worrying.

Maybe it's the lack of public awareness, but in my opinion people just don't want to know about the situation or they don't care about it.

Things like wearing masks and washing hands should be mandatory, but even in big cities they don't consider it an obligation way.

Believe that cove it will attack us.

It will definitely attack us.

Wear sure that cove it will not attack us and we surrender to God, we will definitely not get it.

The Indonesian government started a mass vaccination campaign and tightened movement restrictions earlier this month.

It can't come soon enough as hospitals come under mounting strain.

Dozens of covert 19 patients have reportedly being turned away due to a lack of beds on ventilators.