The Pandemic Case for a Supra-National Governance: A Redu

• Author: Pranoto Iskandar - Nandang Sutrisno
• Position: The Institute for Migrant Rights - Universitas Islam Indonesia, Fakultas Hukum
• Pages: 315-325

e Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law

ISSN: 2338-7602; E-ISSN: 2338-770X

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For his careful reading and kind comments to the previous version of this article, we

would like to thank Eric Carter. Also, we thank Guy Fiennes, a research associate at

the Institute for Migrant Rights, who has deligently conducted a superb proofreading

and sources checking.

THE PANDEMIC CASE FOR SUPRA-

NATIONAL GOVERNANCE

a redux

Pranoto Iskandar

e Institute for Migrant Rights

pranotoi@imr.or.id

with

Nandang Sutrisno

Universitas Islam Indonesia, Fakultas Hukum

nandang.sutrisno@uii.ac.id

It is obvious that the current global fallout as a result of the coronavi-

rus pandemic cannot be separated from the absence of a strong and

eective governance at a supranational level.1 To specify, it is the fail-

ure of the World Health of Organization (WHO) in sending out an

early warning to the international community.2 is failure is strongly

suspected to be related to China’s ever-growing political clout in inter-

1. Mapping the worldwide spread of the coronavirus, W. P, July 4, 2020,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mapping-spread-

new-coronavirus/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_59 (last visited Apr 7, 2020).

2. On the WHO, please see C C, W’  W H

O F (2020), https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/

les/eld/eld_document/20140521WHOHealthGovernanceCli.pdf (last

visited Apr. 5, 2020).