ABSTRACT
This paper tries to do a brief critical review of the Habermasian concept regarding communicative action, seeing the pandemic and its solution steps with the critical Habermasian communication paradigm. In the history of his thought, Habermas has been critical of every guise of ideology, populist arrogance and other established attitudes. This paper will describe some of the cultural resources of Indonesian society so that it will also find a bright spot when combined with Habermasian's reflection regarding the urgency of communicative action so as to give birth to the conception of transformational leadership during the Pandemic. Indonesia, which is known for its culture and belief in the unity of socio-cultural diversity, is an absolute and necessary initial capital in reforming the rationalization of the development of a society that is now being hit by a social crisis due to the Pandemic. With Habermas' critical thinking, we can find that the epistemic attitude of citizens who have various backgrounds has a high point of effectiveness in responding to this social crisis.
