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Stroke is a popular disease in Indonesia as non-communicable disease, and needs long term disability as well as long term care in community. The impacts of stroke are faced by surrounding people including their neighbors. The previous study showed that the neighbors were involved in stroke care in community. However, the neighbors have connection with general health status in chronic disease. The objective of this study is to explore the neighbors activities in nursing care of stroke patients in community, Banjarmasin, Indonesia. A critical ethnography was conducted in this study with six key informants, used purposive sampling. Participant observation, in-depth interview, and focus group discussion were employed to gather the rich data with a structure interview guideline. Content analysis such as transcript, coding, typology, matrix, and thematic analysis were used. There are four themes of neighbors activity in stroke care in community. Their activities are helping to health care facility, financing support, offering food and helping the daily activity, and motivating the patients and stroke families. Neighbors are people who stay around the house and have tight connection and relation with stroke patients and families. They link and directly involve in stroke care for long time in community.