Organising the Outbreak: Introducing Indonesia’s Covid-19 Regulations and Media Statement Dataset, March 2020–March 2021
摘要
There is a growing academic consensus that Indonesia’s responses to the Covid-19 pandemic are more economic-oriented than public health. However, to strengthen the argument, recent studies are short on quantifying the regulations and statements issued by the related authorities during the first year of the outbreak. This article introduces a national dataset covering all the regulations and media statements of the central government, DKI Jakarta local government, and West Java local government. The dataset is a part of greater research about governing non-traditional security challenges involving PRP-BRIN researchers. The dataset recorded 1577 data, consisting of 610 national government regulations, 364 national government media statements, 93 DKI Jakarta government regulations, 198 DKI Jakarta government media statements, 128 West Java government regulations, and 184 West Java government media statements. Firstly, this article introduces the rationale for the dataset and explains the basic coding procedures and quality controls. Secondly, the paper discusses some of the data’s potential limitations in representing the rapid and vast pandemic responses and some potential biases induced by the operationalisations. Thirdly, the paper provides an example of how the data can be used by illustrating and affirming the heavy economic orientation of Indonesia’s national government outbreak responses. The dataset is valuable for policy analysis and discourse analysis of national and local government outbreak responses.