By: Andri Saputro) *
Corona virus is still entrenched in Indonesia and the victims are increasingly falling. This pandemic has made the community stay at home. Similarly, when Eid, preferably at home. Don’t go back and forth to your hometown during the Covid-19 pandemic because it endangers many people.
We experience fasting month in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The community still carries out orders for social distancing and staying at home, and leaves behind some of the ramadan traditions. For example, they no longer sell takjil for fear of inviting a mass group in the Ramadan krempyeng market. In addition, the activity of sahur on the road is also strictly prohibited, because it is feared that it will spread corona.
But what about going home? As usual, people always return home at the end of the month of Ramadan, because they want to shut up to parents and gather with relatives. In the midst of the co-19 pandemic, a ban on going home from the government was issued. Suddenly there were various reactions from the community, some agreed but some protested loudly.
Homecoming has become an annual habit and what happens Eid without silence and apologize to both parents? If not going home during the holidays, it feels strange. In fact, many people who go home massively long before the fasting month, because they are looking for work in the village. They are desperate and do not think about the long-term consequences of their actions.
Though we should understand why there is a ban on Lebaran going home this year. The government does not take away the personal rights of its people to return home, but instead protects us from the dangers of corona. If you travel from the red to green zone, it will be very dangerous because it has the potential to spread the covid-19 virus. This disease will continue to spread to all villages and cities in Indonesia, and will take more lives.
Imagine if in your village there are your parents who are elderly, and uncles and aunts who usually have homes near their homes. Older people have the potential to contract corona, for example as happened in Italy. If you really love them, then obey the rules for not going home.
If you are desperate to return home silently in the middle of the night, then when caught by the village apparatus will immediately be put into the quarantine room. Unfortunately there is not like a hospital, but usually empty buildings that are poorly maintained and the conditions are horror. This is deliberately done so that there is a deterrent effect for desperate travelers.
After Eid will definitely return to the city. When the village of birth turns out to have the status of a red zone, then you also become a corona spreader from village to city. There will be many victims, ranging from families in the city to office colleagues. Do not be selfish by returning home during a pandemic, because all these restrictions are for the health of many people and your own good.
The government has tried to prevent the going back and forth by applying the rules of turning around. On the toll road and several lanes going home, there are police who stand guard and immediately drive people who are determined to return home. If so, then you yourself are the losers, because of failing going home and already out of the cost to buy fuel.
Understand that the rules for prohibiting going home is not something bad. Eid is still Eid, although there is no session to go home. You can still call your parents or make a video call to clear your homesickness. Instead, later when the situation is stable, can return home and meet with them. Obey the homecoming ban and stay faithful to stay at home and do social distancing, and continue to maintain health, so as not to be affected by the corona virus.
) * The author is a member of the Gunung Kidul Student Association
