Omicron Variant Appears, 212 Reunion Canceled At Horse Statue, Virtually Held At Az-Zikra Mosque Bogor Without Political Orations

JAKARTA - The 212 Reunion which was planned to be held at the Arjuna Wiwaha Horse Statue was cancelled. Because the committee decided to hold an online or virtual reunion.

"That's right (the 212 reunion is virtual)," said the Chairperson of the 212 Reunion Committee, Eka Jaya when contacted, Monday, November 29.

In addition, the 212 reunion activity, said Eka, will change its location to the Az-Zikra Mosque, Sentul, Bogor. Later, the series of activities will only be filled with collective remembrance.

"We, the shuro council, have agreed that we will hold it in Az-Zikra, we do remembrance, munajab is not really the point, there are no political speeches and so on," said Eka.

On the other hand, Eka said that the reason for the 212 Reunion was conducted online because it did not receive a letter of recommendation from the COVID-19 Task Force. The reason is that we are currently still in a pandemic situation with the potential for transmission.

This is in addition to the emergence of a new variant of COVID-19, namely Omicron. The so-called faster-transmitting variant has now been detected in several countries.

"The COVID-19 Task Force did not provide recommendations in the language of covid, and there was a new variant, so they ran there, even our numbers were questioned. We only estimated that there were only 10 thousand participants, but still not allowed," said Eka. , Polda Metro Jaya stated that it had received an application for a crowd permit related to the 212 Reunion event. However, until now a permit regarding the application has not been issued.

"There has been a proposal (a letter), namely on Thursday, November 18, 2021, it was submitted to us," said Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Endra Zulpan.

The permit has not been given, said Zulpan, because the applicant has not completed several requirements. One of them is a letter of recommendation from the COVID-19 Task Force.

The recommendation letter is very important during the current pandemic. The goal is to prevent the spread of COVID-19. "One of them is (the conditions for the recommendation of the COVID-19 Task Force)," said Zulpan