Community Involvements to Handle the Pandemic Spread and the Impacts of COVID-19 in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.210723.034How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-19, community involvement, local wisdoms

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has become worldwide problems, nevertheless it needs local countermeasures to cope with the spread and negative impacts of COVID-19. Indonesia consists of many local wisdoms that can be used to prevent the infections as well as to protect the communities from further reverse influences of COVID-19. Thus, a community involvement is a key to curb the pandemic and its impacts by using local wisdoms. This paper is to show several local wisdoms that empower the community members to be able to solve their problems with their own ways in Indonesia. The methods of collecting information are to revisit from the recent study as well as some publications. The community involvements in several locations in Indonesia have brought some insights on how the local wisdoms can be employed as a tool to prevent and to reduce the impacts of COVID-19. As a result of these observations in Aceh, Gorontalo, Central Java and Southeast Moluccas, in the absence of ideal procedures on Covid-19 pandemic it is worthy to applying their local wisdoms in order to prevent the pandemic and to lessen its negative impacts to the communities. A collective action of the local community members becomes a lesson learnt to encounter an adversity for a particular community.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Berton Suar Pelita Panjaitan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/24
TI  - Community Involvements to Handle the Pandemic Spread and the Impacts of COVID-19 in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Medical Faculty, Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani, International Symposium on "Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response during COVID 19 Pandemic" (ASMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 137
EP  - 139
SN  - 2468-5739
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DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.210723.034
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