COVID-19 has altered perceptions of risk and exposed the limitations of existing systems to manage new risks; absent an institutional solution, Quantum Indonesia observes the emergence of a ‘counterculture’ that aims to bring a sense of security during the pandemic.

Three levels of counterculture

Writing for WARC, the insights agency outlines how this counterculture, “devised at an individual and/or collective level”, can be seen at three levels:

• faith and religion;
• science;
• new everyday rituals.

“Each of these ‘levels’ reveals the logic with which individuals make sense of the new risks and lasting impact associated with COVID-19,” the...