The global tourism industry has grappled with the profound impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including Indonesia. The Indonesian government tried to make a couple of efforts to awaken their tourism sector, since tourism has played a crucial role on Indonesian revenue. Collaborating with influencers from Indonesia that have already built their audience, the Indonesian Government marketed their tourism sector during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study examines the government's use of influencers to promote tourism, focusing on Indonesian social media users and their responses towards it, who showed a trend of more consumption of social media during the COVID-19 outbreak. It aims to evaluate the effectiveness of influencer marketing in promoting some of Indonesian tourism destinations and its significance in the broader strategy of revitalising Indonesia's tourism sector by seeing the market audience's perspectives on the Indonesian government moves correlated to the tourism promotion