Ridwan Kamil's Scribbles About The Current Condition: Don't Be A Musician Talking About COVID, Not Connected

JAKARTA - West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil described the division of society during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ridwan Kamil divides groups that have different views about the corona virus.

Through his handwriting, Ridwan Kamil in the Mata Najwa program explained the condition of the picture of a divided society regarding COVID-19. The plug point is related to public communication.

“There is a problem in public communications, society is divided. There are health and economic gangs. The government has decided that these two cannot be divided," said Ridwan Kamil, quoted from Najwa Shihab's YouTube, Thursday, July 15.

The intake of information about COVID-19 in the view of Ridwan Kamil, who is familiarly called Kang Emil, comes from a number of parties. Experts, influencers to community leaders.

"There are also groups of provocateurs," he said.

The estuary of this flow of information is scientific, hoaxes are also different opinions. Not to mention Kang Emil said that COVID-19 was associated with political affairs. The condition of society is increasingly divided.

"If politics is used to discuss COVID, the issue is criticizing. People are divided into three, they are still in the denial group, they don't believe in COVID, so the consumption of information (related) is conspiracy, business COVID, COVID-19, China controls Indonesia, the government setting is the COVID endorser," said Kang Emil

But there is also a majority group who accepts or in a sense believes in COVID-19. However, this group is still called Kang Emil at the level of disobeying health protocols.

While what is expected at this time is an adapting group. People who are aware of obeying the prokes to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

“My message, from all of this, is to prioritize messages from the government and prioritize messages from experts. Leave it to the experts, don't be a music expert talking about health, it's not connected," he said.

"When you talk about COVID, you ask the doctor, not the musicians. So that influencer figures who have many followers but whose knowledge is not in health, I always leave it to check, confirm to the experts that the government is inadequate so that we can avoid hoaxes, "said Kang Emil.