Bogor COVID-19 Task Force Rejects Application For Permit For The Peak Of Zikr

The congregation of Puncak Berzikr X continued to crowd the Atta-Awun Mosque area even though the Bogor Regency COVID-19 Task Force, West Java, refused its permit application. (ANTARA/HO-Satpol PP Bogor Regency)

BOGOR - The Bogor Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force, West Java, rejected a permit application from the "Puncak Berzikr X" committee at the Atta'Taawun Mosque, Cisarua, Bogor.

"The rejection is a joint effort in the context of preventing and controlling COVID-19 in Bogor Regency," said the Daily Head of the Bogor Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Burhanudin in his reply to the implementing committee which he signed on Friday, December 31.

Burhan advised the organizing committee to postpone activities that have the potential to cause crowds after the implementation of the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs (Inmendagri) Number 66 of 2021 concerning the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 on Christmas and New Year's 2022 ends.

According to him, the Minister of Home Affairs, which was forwarded through the Regent's Circular, stipulates that during the period from December 24, 2021 to January 2, 2022, the community is obliged to reduce activities outside the home, except for implementing 5M.

The chairman of the Atta'Awun Mosque Prosperity Council (DKM), KH Ahmad Kosasih, rejected the application for a permit for the Peak Remembrance X activity and asked the committee to postpone its implementation.

"DKM Atta'awun Mosque asked the committee to postpone the Peak Berzikir X activity until the PPKM was completed according to the copy of the Bogor Regency COVID-19 that we received," he said.

The Organizing Committee for the Peak of Zikr X sent a letter of application for a permit to the Bogor Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force on December 3, 2021.

In its letter numbered 03.0002/PB/SP/XII/2021 the committee informed the COVID-19 Handling Task Force that they would carry out the X Remembrance Peak on Thursday, December 30, 2021.