^Kampung KB^ Participation Model in Prevention of Covid-19 in Banyumas Regency
Dyah Retna Puspita (a)*, Pawrtha Dharma (b), Hikmah Nuraeni (c)

Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Jenderal Soedirman University

Abstract

Background:
Family Panning Village known as ^Kampung KB^ is a social institution at Neighborhood Council level in villages formed by the government in 2017s. The purpose is to improve the quality of families living in those areas, including the health aspect. The managers were social workers in those areas. This research aims at investigating the participation of this institution in preventing from the Covid-19 pandemic in Banyumas Regency which cases are quite high.


Objective:
Obtaining deeper information about: (1) the presence of positive Covid-19 cases in their surrounding areas- (2) participation forms in preventing those cases.

Method:
The research target included 82 people of family planning village core adminstrators in 8 villages and 1 subdistrict in 4 districts of Banyumas Regency. The data was collected using questionaires sent through What^s App groups belonging to respondents in each village/subdistrict followed with in depth discussions conducted in those groups. The qualitative data of those questionaires was then analyzed using a descriptive statistics, while the qualitative data was used to obtain deeper information.

Result:
There were some villagers in three areas of those family planning villages were identified with positive Covid-19, yet not all village core administrators knew about those cases. Most family planning villages had no special preventive programs. However, in those family planning villages and the surrounding areas with some villagers identified with positive Covid-19, the core village admimistrators will perform some preventive efforts more intensively in the forms of news socialization related to Covid-19 through What^s App groups in their villages, such as through PKK, Neighborhood Association, and Neighborhood Council goups.
In addition, some family planning village core administrators organized the local villagers to help one elderly whose child was intensively treated at a hospital because of identified with positiv

Keywords: Family Planning Village (Kampung KB), Covid-19, Banyumas Regency

Topic: Health policy, health services and health economic