Governmental Policies in Handling and Stopping the Covid-19 Pandemic

(The Case of Langsa City in 2020)

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220302.037How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Langsa City; Task Force Team; Policies; Covid-19 and PSBB

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to explore the Langsa City’s policies as its responses to the wide spreading pandemic Covid-19 virus that threatened the well-being of the people in eastern part of Aceh. Langsa city is the gate of Aceh province that directly connected to the Province of North Sumatra, a province that considered as the core city of the economic development of Sumatra Island. Accordingly, it is assumed that due to closeness to Medan the Capital of latter, Langsa has to formulate a more comprehensive policies that aimed to curved the spreading of the virus into the region. It is therefore, exploration of the effectiveness of the policies has become the concerned of this study. In so doing, this paper has applied a qualitative approach in collecting and analyzing the date. So that the phenomenon could be explain naturally, as it was perceived by the people of the Langsa and its government. It is found that the Langsa City has implemented policies that based on regulations issued from the central government and followed by the rules of the Governor of Aceh. In addition to that, the response of the people in Langsa had not been unanimous. They have been divided into two group, those who are convinced in the pandemic and those who were not. Besides, the city government has to be alert with the religious wise issue, as the policies closely related to the religious aspect such prayer congregational in the Most.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhammad Bin Abubakar
AU  - Zulhilmi
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/24
TI  - Governmental Policies in Handling and Stopping the Covid-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 254
EP  - 258
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220302.037
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220302.037
ID  - Abubakar2022
ER  -