Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement
A roadblock of a street entering Jakarta due to the COVID-19 mass restrictions
Date	11 January 2021 – 30 December 2022 (1 year and 353 days)
Location	Indonesia
Caused by	COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Goals	Containment of the pandemic
Methods	Prohibition of movement and mass assembly in Java and Bali, including all religious, sports, social and cultural activities. Indonesian barred from leaving their residence unless for essential activities. All religious activities in mosques, churches and temples suspended. All industries are closed and remote work is implemented except for infrastructure services and supermarkets, wet markets, grocery stores and multi-functional stores selling daily necessities. All nurseries, government and private schools, including boarding schools, international school, primary, secondary and pre-university education institutions, public and private universities, and vocational training centers closed
Status	Declared ended on 30 December 2022

The Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement or CARE (Indonesian: Pemberlakuan Pembatasan Kegiatan Masyarakat, commonly referred to as the PPKM) was a cordon sanitaire policy of the Indonesian government since early 2021 to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the implementation of CARE, the government had implemented large-scale social restrictions (LSSR) which took place in a number of regions in Indonesia.

On 30 December 2022, Joko Widodo announced that the CARE policy had ended for all regions in Indonesia.^[1][2][3]

Background

The Indonesian government first implemented CARE from 11 to 25 January 2021. The two weeks implementation of CARE was carried out based on the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Number 1 of 2021 and was implemented in the island of Java and Bali. Previously, in 2020, a number of provinces had implemented large-scale social restrictions (LSSR) to prevent the spread of COVID-19. According to Airlangga Hartanto as Chair of the Committee on COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery [id] (KPC-PEN), the initial initiative to apply for LSSR was with the regional government, while CARE was with the central government.^[4] The Deputy Chairperson of KPC-PEN Luhut Panjaitan said that LSSR was carried out non-uniformly, while CARE could be applied uniformly.^[5]

CARE Levels

On 21 July 2021, Tito Karnavian as Minister of Home Affairs announced a new term regarding the CARE mechanism with a scale from the first to the fourth level. The government can determine that an area can apply CARE based on the rate of transmission and the number of active cases of COVID-19 in an area. All cases were counted per 100,000 population per week.^[6][7]

Enforcement

Summary

The following table contains a summary of the implementation of CARE, micro-CARE and emergency CARE which consists of several stages.