Remind Not Going Home, Secretary General MUI: India Must Be A Lesson, Do Not Repeat In Indonesia

Secretary General of the Central MUI Buya Amirsyah Tambunan / Screenshot

JAKARTA - The Secretary General of the Central MUI, Buya Amirsyah Tambunan, urged all people not to go home on the Eid 2021 holiday. This is solely to reduce the number of the spread of COVID-19.

"The ban on going home is based on data, studies. As stated by Prof. Wiku, every time there is a crowd of COVID-19 cases soaring. This homecoming makes a crowd," said Buya Amirsyah at a press conference at the BNPB Building, Jakarta, Friday, April 23.

According to him, not going home will improve the handling of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia, which is currently sloping. Do not let cases that are ramping up again because of this Eid homecoming.

"I remind India to be a valuable lesson not to be repeated in Indonesia," he said.

The COVID-19 cases in India are currently on the rise. The Indian government on Thursday, April 24 reported more than 300,000 cases of Corona virus infection over the past 24 hours.

For people who don't go home, he said, don't worry about not being able to meet their families. He said they could take advantage of technology.

"There is an efficient gathering through zoom, I just zoom through. This avoids the crowd," he said.

On this occasion he reminded that people living in the red zone should pray from home. This, he said, did not diminish the essence of worship.

"Worship at home is more for those in the red zone, avoided by the crowd. Tarawih prayers at home," he said.

Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Human and Cultural Empowerment (PMK) Muhadjir Effendy admitted that there were concerns that the government had about the 2021 homecoming activity that reflected last year.

According to him, there will still be travelers who are determined to travel. It is even predicted that the number of naughty travelers will reach 13 percent of the 73-80 million people who usually go home for Eid. Or there are around 10 million reckless travelers in the Eid 2021 period.

"And the 10 million is quite a scene. It is quite chaotic, twice the population of Singapore," Muhadjir said in his statement, Wednesday, April 21.

Therefore, Muhadjir said, his party was trying to find ways to minimize the number of residents who did not comply with the homecoming prohibition.

Muhadjir said, if the government did not impose a ban on going home, there would be around 73 million people traveling to their hometowns this year.

According to him, the government will not be able to enforce the discipline of the swab test as a condition of the road for 73 million travelers simultaneously.

"We are worried that there will be fake health certificates that will not be controlled. We are also worried that there will be unplanned crowds," he explained.