The disobedience of residents is the cause of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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In Indonesia, there are no signs of an end to the Covid-19 pandemic even though it has been running for almost 2 years starting from March 2020.

The community's non-compliance with health protocols mostly occurs due to their lack of understanding of the dangers of disease, the benefits of treatment, and the magnitude of the barriers to Covid-19 in access to health.

Lack of public understanding of how susceptible they are to contracting COVID-19, how severe the disease is, what are the benefits of taking precautions, and lack of instructions for action.

Social psychologists have developed various models to explain and predict health-related behaviors, especially in using health facilities.

The community also faces various obstacles to accessing health facilities. For example, people find it difficult to test for Covid-19 because the cost is quite expensive.

Then the level of public compliance with health protocols such as wearing masks, maintaining distance, and washing hands is still not satisfactory.

Efforts to build public awareness must be increased in various ways by carrying out more effective communication through various media and methods that are suitable for age, educational, and cultural diversity.

In the last few months, various popular articles and various figures in the community have also conveyed that the handling of Covid-19 such as Large-Scale Social Restrictions (LSSR) in Indonesia is very much determined by the compliance of the community with established health protocols.

The high number of violations that occur massively in the community is not only in one place, this is a social problem in Indonesia in the context of handling Covid-19, but what is more worrying is the “indifference” of the public to health protocols.

The government also took part in handling this problem.

Facing this difficult situation various efforts have been made by the government, from campaigning for wearing masks to patrolling officers. It was all done as passionately as what has been done.

It's just that the government, with all its efforts, is still not optimal in building public awareness of the dangers of the plague and easy access to health.

In the event of a pandemic, the government still uses complicated terms and is only easy for the educated people who come from the middle class.

The government has even issued different statements, even though an emergency requires comprehensive and consistent communication. Then the government's reluctance to implement Large-Scale Social Restrictions (LSSR) seriously.

A very confusing incident of an inconsistent policy is when Eid Al-Fitr 2020 in the middle of Covid-19 arrives. There is a statement that confuses the public of the term that distinguishes between "mudik" and "pulang kampung". Even though the two of terms have the same meaning, namely "homecoming"

Then, the middle to lower class people are still having difficulty getting a COVID-19 test and the middle to lower class people are becoming more vulnerable to this problem.

The government only provides free hospital tests for those who had contact with positive cases or visited risky areas and show clinical symptoms of COVID-19. Though some cases proved to be without common symptoms.

Meanwhile, people who are able to do the test independently at the hospital are quite expensive.