Credible data and information for handling the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia are
relatively minimal. The quality of public policies to deal with diseases classified as emerging

non-natural disasters tends to be low, especially during the early stages of handling the Covid-
19 pandemic. Several figures from civil society organizations, journalists, public health

practitioners, and information technology experts took the initiative to develop an information
reporting platform related to the pandemic that involved citizen participation in helping
overcome this. The citizen platform was then developed into the practice of citizen journalism.
This study describes the application of the concept of citizen reporting, which has developed
into citizen journalism as an instrument for collecting data and information on Covid-19 cases in
Indonesia. Especially in the case of the “LaporCOVID-19” citizen platform.