Proceedings of the International Conference on Theology, Humanities and Christian Education 2022 (ICONTHCE 2022)

Indonesian Government and Churches Synergy with Digital Utilization to Accelerate Pandemic Recovery

Authors
Martina Novalina1, *, Indria Samego1, Lonato Hedianto1, Erastus Sabdono1
1STT Ekumene Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: martina@sttekumene.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Martina Novalina
Available Online 14 December 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-160-9_11How to use a DOI?
Keywords
church; digital; government; recovery; synergy
Abstract

As the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia has suffered from high rise number of death and confirmed case of COVID-19 in 2021. The government has shown COVID-19 confirmed cases spikes about ten times more at mid July 2021. As a countermeasure Indonesian government has put forth some series of restriction and regulation for social activities as well towards religion activities. This quantitative research use paired t-test on 56 COVID-19 active cases data sample and shows that government synergy with churches with digital utilization positively impacted the decline of COVID-19 active cases. The churches have shown great compliance with government regulations and even providing pro-active support to cope with COVID-19 pandemic with digital utilization which leads to great reductions of confirmed cases and may provide further prevention of cases increase in the future. The church utilized their digital assets so they could accelerate public disease recovery and even the economy.

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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Theology, Humanities and Christian Education 2022 (ICONTHCE 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
14 December 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-160-9_11
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-160-9_11How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Cite this article

TY  - CONF
AU  - Martina Novalina
AU  - Indria Samego
AU  - Lonato Hedianto
AU  - Erastus Sabdono
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/14
TI  - Indonesian Government and Churches Synergy with Digital Utilization to Accelerate Pandemic Recovery
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Theology, Humanities and Christian Education 2022 (ICONTHCE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 78
EP  - 91
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-160-9_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-160-9_11
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