INDONESIA’ CRISIS RESPONSE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC: FROM VARIOUS LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT AND NETWORK ACTIONS TO POLICY

Abstract

WHO China Office was informed and reported cases with no death of unknown pneumonia detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province in early December 2019. WHO published its risk assessment and advice on the status of patients by national authorities in Wuhan. On 10 th January 2020, WHO issued its first guidance for novel coronavirus. WHO made visit to Wuhan by delegation to discuss the status of the virus. Officially on 11 th February 2020, WHO named Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) after declared the outbreaks. Many responses were coming from various countries to this crisis. The responses may vary according to crisis response management: public policies; networks interactions; and contextual condition that create the strategic and operational level (Boin & ‘t Hart, 2010). We adopt qualitative research. We focused on the actual textual documents as the objects of our analytical content from internet, articles from journals and reference books. The objectives of this research are: notifying government’s actions towards COVID-19 pandemic; identifying government’s policies on COVID-19 pandemic; and analyzing Indonesia’s crisis response management to control COVID 19 pandemic. Indonesia is still slow to response the pandemic. The contextual dimensions from crisis response management in Indonesia include: citizen’s behaviors, governments actions and the policy power.

Keywords

• crisis response;
• government agencies;
• networks;
• policy;