E-ISSN 2281-4612 ISSN 2281-3993 Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies www.richtmann.org Vol 10 No 6 November 2021 106 . Research Article © 2021 Wahyudi et al. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Received: 15 July 2021 / Accepted: 7 October 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021 The Role of Social Capital in Handling Covid-19 at the Local Level in Indonesia Wahyudi 1* Achmad Nurmandi 2 Salahudin 3 Iradhad Taqwa Sihidi 3 1Department of Sociology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia 2Department of Government Affairs and Administration, Jusuf Kallla School of Government, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 3Department of Government Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia *Corresponding Author DOI: https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0158 Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic is a multidimensional problem that requires the government to be adaptive and creative in mobilizing all available resources. It's not just a matter of solutive policies, but more than that, social capital is needed because handling the Covid-19 crisis must involve the cooperation of all parties. This study aims to provide an analysis of how social capital works in handling Covid-19 in Blitar City, Indonesia. The focus is seeing response from Regional Apparatus Organizations (OPD) and community elements consisting of Covid Task Force, Community Organizations (Ormas), Community / Community Volunteers, RT / RW, and other components in the Blitar City community. This study shows that social capital in Blitar City works well. There is mutual trust and strengthen cooperation between the government and the people to come out of the crisis together. The City Government has succeeded in showing good responsiveness accompanied by coordination and cross-stakeholder communication, increasing trust in the government, and that is the key to public compliance with social mobility restrictions and recommendations for obeying health protocols. Although this compliance is not followed by all people, at least in general social solidarity has been formed which is the main key in handling the Covid-19 crisis. Keywords: Covid-19, Social Capital, Public Policy; Regional government; Community 1. Introduction At the end of 2019, precisely in December, the world was hit by a non-natural disaster which was marked by the emergence of a new type of virus called Covid-19/Corona originating from Wuhan City, China (Blühdorn and Deflorian, 2021). In the end, this virus managed to enter Indonesia. Through an official announcement delivered directly by President Joko Widodo, on March 2, 2020, two Indonesian citizens (WNI) domiciled in Depok were found to have contracted the SARS Cov-2