Reorganizing the State
The shift from the New Order to the Reform era did not make the posture and scope of the country slimmer; in fact, it became fatter, with mediocre human resources.
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Due to limited treatment rooms, Covid-19 patients had to be accommodated under emergency tents in the yard of the dr Chasbullah Abdulmajid Hospital, Bekasi City, West Java, Saturday (26/6/2021).
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses and strengths of our sociopolitical system. With the posture and scope of state intervention that is so large and wide, the capacity of government agencies to deal with this disaster appears to be ineffective; so much so that the President had to overhaul the ad hoc committee to cover up the inertia.
On the other hand, this pandemic also shows the strength of the Indonesian people’s social capital. The Charity Aid Foundation (CAF), the 2021 World Giving Index, with its survey that is closely related to the pandemic situation, once again named Indonesia as the country with the most generous people in the world. Unfortunately, political governance and state policies have so far relied too much on the role of the state and at the same time, waste the people’s power and the role of the healthy market.