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This study aims to investigate the strategies and efforts that should be made to increase community law empowerment in breaking the chain of distribution of Covid-19 in the new normal era. Covid-19 has brought about a change in people's lives known with a new-normal term, where people must always comply and obey the health protocols to break the chain of its spread. Various policies have been issued by the Government, including the province of West Kalimantan, which has issued the strictest policy on the application of discipline and enforcement of the Health Protocol. It is qualitative research, whereas the data of this study are qualitative in descriptions, exposures, and writings referenced from books, journals, and articles. For analysis, the data is sorted, categorized (grouped) into groups, and then the contents are critically analyzed, so that concrete formulation is formulated, which are then explained in depth. The result of the research is that the strategy of indirect legal counseling by utilizing social media facilities can educate the public to comply with legal rules related to breaking the chain of covid-19 spread towards the new normal era. This public education is needed to understand and build legal awareness of the community on how to deal with the new life order amid the Covid-19 pandemic. It is hoped that this intense and continuous legal communication will have implications for realizing community legal empowerment in breaking the chain of the spread of Covid-19.