The Authority’s Role and Policy in Protecting Citizens from Technology and Information Communications Dynamics During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This study begins with the COVID-19 Pandemic's appearance in an era of rapid technological, information, and communication development that is highly intensive in the midst of society and has an effect on unforeseen social transformation. This cannot be accomplished by the present authorities' policies aimed at containing societal change, most notably improvements in technology, information, and communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because the government' attitude regulates primarily health and economic matters. The authority's attitude appears to be limited, and the policy is incapable of coping with the ensuing social change. Whereas Indonesia is a God-fearing, populist, and cultured nation. This is a sort of normative legal research by emphasizing the study of literature with a particular emphasis on legal principals, legal system, jurisprudence. This study also includes descriptive research. The obvious conclusion is that the Indonesian Constitution places a premium on formal-procedural democracy. Second, the requirement for legislation to function as both a social control and a motivator of action in order to enhance the quality of welfare and justice. Through primal conceptions and a durable populist foundation to uphold positive laws and components of society's values/ethos in order to replenish authoritative policies on technology, information, and communication throughout the COVID-19 epidemic.