Limiting The Number Of Congregants For Good Friday Celebration, Jakarta Cathedral Commits To Breaking The Chain Of Transmission Of COVID-19

The atmosphere of the implementation of Good Friday at the Jakarta Cathedral Church. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Jakarta Cathedral Church limits the congregation who attend directly at the Good Friday celebration in the 2022 Easter Holy Week series to only around 75 percent of the capacity or only 1,105 people. And at the Jakarta Cathedral there are 1,105 people who can attend one worship activity," said Public Relations of the Cathedral and the Archdiocese of Jakarta Susyana Suwadie quoted by Antara, Friday, April 15. Of this number, said Susyana, as many as 355 people were inside the Cathedral Church, 330 people were in Plaza Mari, and 420 devotees in the Hall of John. Every seat in the Cathedral Church has been arranged and marked with a distance between one parishioner and another. He explained that the congregants who attended were those who had previously registered via the Jakarta Archdiocese's BelaRasa website. It is also confirmed that the congregation must be in good health. "So from the beginning, the Jakarta Archdiocese's commitment to break the chain of transmission so that strict procedures are mandatory," he said.

In this series of Easter Holy Week starting from Palm Sunday (9-10 April 2022), Maundy Thursday (14 April), Good Friday (15 April), Easter Night (Saturday, 16 April) and Easter Day (Sunday, 17 April) "Today is a series of Tri Sacred Days, where we have entered the second day where the Good Friday service is taking place," he said. The Good Friday service at the Jakarta Cathedral was held three times. The first will take place online at 12.00 WIB, hybridly at 15.00 WIB, and the last one at 18.00 WIB. The security consists of elements of the TNI, Polri, and Satpol PP around 100 people. They guard at a number of points of entry/access to the Cathedral.