This article seeks to understand the communities’ resilience in responding to the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy. Included in this impact are unemployment and poverty issues which increased when the lockdown was implemented to reduce the transmission of the Corona virus. The communities that suffered from these impacts should find strategies to have economic resilience to overcome these issues. This study examines how the community implements social capital to have economic resilience during the pandemic. The study was conducted in Giligenting Island, a small and remote Island, which is part of Madura Island, East Java, Indonesia. People living in this Island faced economic problems due to the lack of infrastructure, environment deterioration, clean water crisis and poverty issues. Many people left this Island to go to other cities to become migrants, looking for jobs or running stalls or store business for living. During the pandemic, most of them returned to Giligenting because of the decline in economic activities which occurred during the lockdown. This has aggravated the poverty issues. This study finds two mechanisms by which social capital has been utilized by the community on this Island, both local and migrants, to address their economic deterioration. Included in these mechanisms are the use of tanean lanjeng (kinship) tradition in their daily activities and more mutual trust that has been employed by the migrants and their assistants to keep their business run during the pandemic.