Penelitian dilakukan pada Masyarakat Kukusan di masa awal pandemi COVID-19. Data dikumpulkan melalui penelitian lapangan menggunakan teknik wawancara mendalam dan observasi partisipan dengan memperhatikan protokol kesehatan dan penggunaan berbagai alat komunikasi untuk menggali data di masa pandemi COVID-19. Temuan dalam penelitian ini, Masyarakat Kukusan berinteraksi secara resiprokal dengan virus COVID-19 dalam proses adaptive co-management untuk mengelola ketakutan dalam masyarakat. Pemaknaan virus COVID-19 sebagai bentuk makhluk yang diciptakan oleh Tuhan dan hidup berdampingan dengan masyarakat Kukusan membuat masyarakat Kukusan mampu mengendalikan ketakutan di masa pandemi. Dengan demikian, pandemi COVID-19 yang merubah tatanan sistem ekosistem yang terdapat manusia di dalamnya di respons dengan pengelolaan ketakutan yang baik melalui adaptive co-management dengan tokoh agama sebagai adaptive manager. Saya berargumentasi bahwa menejemen ketakutan di tengah pandemi mampu secara perlahan membuat masyarakat dan COVID-19 mampu hidup berdampingan dengan sistem ekosistem yang baru.

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The research was conducted in Kukusan community in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data was collected through fieldwork using in-depth interview techniques and participants' observations by paying attention to health protocols and the use of various communication tools to dig up data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings in this study, Kukusan community interacted reciprocally with the COVID-19 virus in the process of adaptive co-management to manage fear in the community. The use of the COVID-19 virus as a form of being created by God and coexisting with the Kukusan community makes the Kukusan community able to control fear during the pandemic. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic that changed the order of the ecosystem system contained in it in response with good management of fear through adaptive co-management with religious leaders as adaptive managers. I argue that managing fear in the midst of a pandemic is able to slowly make people and COVID-19 able to coexist with the new ecosystem system.