Abstract
This article evaluates the issue of public panic over the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia from March to April 2020. The study was conducted with secondary data analysis sourced from competent online media, and was aimed to expand the panic scope as well as criticize the related theories in a collective behavior study. The results showed inconsistencies in the event of public panic in a crowd. This include while dealing with natural disasters, terror, sinking ships, fires, collapsed buildings or other physical threats, and also over invisible dangers, as observed with viruses. In addition, the individual disposition persists for a long time on occasions where the authorities, both political and academic, fail to immediately strategize a convincing countermeasure. Based on these findings, the study provides a critique of several theories, comprising crowd panic, emerging norms, and moral panic.
Highlights
There was a global outrage after the appearance of coronavirus at the end of 2019, estimated to cause disease in human beings
The theory of moral panic was generated following the public reaction to threats of declining morality, which result from crowd behavior
Based on the incidence of Covid-19 threats, the study of collective behavior is enriched with a different type of public panic, compared to previous studies introduced by Le Bon (2004), Turner and Killian (1973) and Cohen (1973)
Summary
There was a global outrage after the appearance of coronavirus at the end of 2019, estimated to cause disease in human beings. The government mobilized the entire forces, including the army and civil instruments to enforce this policy By this time, the panic level had continued to increase in areas, including shopping, eviction of medical personnel from boarding and rented apartments, rejection of dead bodies caused by COVID-19, and the fear of layoffs. The panic level had continued to increase in areas, including shopping, eviction of medical personnel from boarding and rented apartments, rejection of dead bodies caused by COVID-19, and the fear of layoffs These are collective behaviors and are different from panic theories. A village head highlighted the fears of Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol 10, 544-552, August 2020 ISSN: 2668-7798 www.techniumscience.com infecting the entire community with virus originally from Wuhan if a Covid-19 body was allowed to be buried (https://regional.kompas.com/read/2020/04/07).
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