People Self-Empowered to Prevent Spread of Covid-19

Indonesia has millions of health cadres, family welfare empowerment cadres (PKK) or dasawisma cadres. They are evenly distributed in almost all villages.

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us many lessons. One of them is the importance of empowering people to promote self-prevention. The basic concept is that the people are at the forefront of prevention (preventive), not health workers.

Unfortunately, creating community-based self-prevention to prevent the spread of Covid-19 is not the current choice of the Indonesian government. The government prefers a curative approach. An approach that relies on health workers, medicines, infrastructure, and the national health system, which is actually far from ideal.