Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia
Bagus Tjahjono, Agus Suryono, Riyanto, Fadillah Amin

Faculty of Medicine
Universitas Jenderal Ahmad Yani
Cimahi, Indonesia

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit and is attacking Indonesia. This pandemic is very difficult to eradicate, causing very high mortality and detrimental to various aspect of life. It takes an active role from all components of the nation in order to cope with this pandemic. For this reason, the Indonesian government has formed a task force for handling the COVID-19 pandemic. The duties and functions of this task force are to coordinate and lead the six main components in the collaborative mechanism for handling the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a descriptive analytical method using data derived from the data on handling this pandemic. The results obtained indicate that Indonesia is implementing a collaborative governance approach in the effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: collaborative governance, COVID-19 pandemic, task force

Topic: Covid 19 in Emergency