PERAN BADAN NASIONAL PENANGGULANGAN BENCANA DALAM PENANGANAN PANDEMI COVID-19 DI KABUPATEN GARUT

Desvita Dianti Wiratami (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, Pemerintah Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan)
Muhammad Nasrul (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, Pemerintah Provinsi Kalimantan Utara)
A. Inayah Ainun Fajriyah (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, Pemerintah Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan)

Jurnal Pemerintahan dan Keamanan Publik (JP dan KP)
Jurnal Pemerintahan dan Keamanan Publik (JP dan KP), Vol. 3, No. 2, Agustus 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic that has emerge and attacked Indonesia since the beginning of 2020 has intensified the demands for the role of the government to formulate a specific kind of policies that can address and accommodate social, economic, and political problems that arise as a consequence of this non-natural disaster. In an effort to cope with this disaster, the government has given a mandate to BNPB to take the strategic steps needed so that this pandemic is quickly finished, not least in Garut Regency, West Java. By implementing a qualitative descriptive research method, this study aims to methodologically and comprehensively analyze the role of BNPB in handling the COVID-19 pandemic in Garut Regency. The role of BNPB is very crucial considering the magnitude of the mandate carried out in an effort to mitigate the risk of the COVID-19 Pandemic disaster in Garut Regency, West Java. Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; BNPB’s Role; Disaster Management; Comprehensive Studies.