Track: Decision Sciences

Abstract

Covid -19 is a virus that is quite likely to have spread in China since August 2019. This means that this outbreak had spread several months before it was thought to have broken out in Wuhan and spread throughout the world. Indonesia is one of the countries that has suffered quite concerning impacts due to Covid-19. All regions in Indonesia are quite concerned about Covid-19. South Sulawesi Province is one of the provinces of Indonesia where the spread of Covid-19 is quite active and is in the Orange zone for districts/cities including Palopo City. So that there are several policies taken by the Palopo City Government, one of which is refocusing the 2020 APBD budget for handling Covid-19. However, with the budget issued by the Palopo city government, the number of victims has increased so that the public thinks there is an effort to end budget in handling covid-19 by increasing the number of victims of covid so that people start to be afraid to go to the hospital to carry out this examination based on several cases that have occurred in the hospital. In Palopo, the majority of patients with hypertension, high blood sugar, asthma, and shortness of breath are victims of Covid-19. This article examines the crisis of trust in the Palopo community in the government in handling the Covid-19 case. Due to an indication of the game in determining the victim of Covid-19. The purpose of this study is to examine the crisis of public confidence in the government in handling Covid-19 in Palopo City. The conclusions are used to draw some recommendations for dynamic governance.