Abstract
Objectives: Indonesia responded the COVID-19 pandemic slowly these last months. The recent reports shown that the rate performance of Indonesian government in handling COVID-19 posits at the 4th worst all over the world. Meanwhile, through responsive, strict, and strategic policy, some Asia countries pushed the elimination case by doing lockdown. This paper questioned how government respond this pandemic, tried to track down the unresponsive and slow decisions, and analyze them comprehensively trough policy system framework. Moreover, we also considered a few feasible and strategic recommendations to accelerate the pandemic responding.Methods: To visualize the anatomy of problems in handling these pandemic responses, this work applied Easton's black box analysis in formulating and introducing public policy. The black box analysis would help us to portray and understood the interests, rationalities, and priorities behind introducing public policies which was implemented to handle this health problem. Besides, the policy triangle framework was used to analyze how environment influenced key actor in making decision.Results: This analysis study discovered the conflict interests in formulating and implementing public policy in handling COVID-19. The public policies are negotiated, discussed, and formulated under black box that ignore transparency, and other good governance principles. Consequently, the substance of public policy represents a certain interest of policy makers, that may conflict with the others and often contradict to the constitutional-based public interests, that is public health. It was impacted the emergence of messy and uncoordinated institutions that implement the conflicted policies. Undeniably, this situation may spark counter-productive ways, attitudes, and actions of people in responding those ambiguous policies. Therefore, this work recommended revising the coherences norms and public policies; reforming the ministry of health in public health's paradigm context; and improving the integration and coordination of cross related institutions, creating a single data on public health, and changing a new paradigm of people, including improving collective awareness in responding and handling COVID-19 appropriately.
Highlights
A new and threatening viral infection emerged in December 2019 and lead World Health Organization (WHO) to take serious steps to respond it
We implemented a purposeful content analysis of available policy documents, programs, action plans, reports, press release, news related to COVID-19 in Indonesia, and from WHO
The analysis conducted above helps prove the hypothesis of this study: The Indonesian government is not fully ready to face the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
A new and threatening viral infection emerged in December 2019 and lead World Health Organization (WHO) to take serious steps to respond it. After some efforts, this global board assigned it as public health emergency [1]. This global board assigned it as public health emergency [1] It issued a public statement defining to be prepared by taking important measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 at local and national level. Amount of time passed by without a precise strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The Government’s warnings about the threat of news hoax were stronger compared to the alertness about the potential spread of the COVID-19
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