By: Deka Prawira )*
The pandemic due to the spread of the covid-19 virus has not ended yet and it is estimated that it could take another 1 or 2 years. In the midst of difficult times, radicals use this moment to influence many people. They denigrated the government and invited the people to hate it.
Radicals are unceasingly spreading terror in order to smooth their actions for the purpose of having a khilafiyah state. The condition of Indonesia, which is still in the co-19 pandemic, was put to good use to make hoax news and terrorize the minds of the people so that they were hostile to the government. Predisen and other officials are accused of failing to overcome corona.
Evidenced by the increase in the number of patients to 900 people after the opening of the new normal era. Even though the number of registered patients was due to the results of the tests that were intensified by the government. It is better for many patients to be detected, rather than being unnoticed and then suddenly dying of corona.
Covid-19 virus also closed the mosque and may not even be used as a place for Friday prayers and Eid al-Adha prayers. Radicals directly blatantly attack this government policy and assume the president is taking Muslim’s right to worship. Though the closure of the mosque is due to prevent the spread of corona. It is feared that worshipers who worship together will spread the co-19 virus. So instead of forbidding to pray. Besides other places of worship are also temporarily closed.
Another issue blown up by radicals is the opening of shopping centers. This event was clashed with news of the closure of houses of worship. Though the market is one place to roll back the wheels of the economy that had collapsed. If malls and supermarkets are opened again, then business people can breathe with relief and Indonesia’s financial condition will be healthy again, because the velocity of money will be smooth again.
If the market is opened but the mosque is closed, then look at its function. The market is a place of trade and is the center of the economy. There is no substitute. But when worshiping at the mosque can still be done at the prayer house or in the living room. Worshiping is permissible, as long as it is clean from unclean. Prayers in the mosque do get a lot of merit, but can increase the risk of corona.
Radicals also protested strongly why the Ministry of Religion forbade prospective pilgrims from leaving this year. Even though they have been struggling to save money and wait for decades, so long queues. The government’s decision to abolish Hajj this year, because we are still in the co-19 pandemic. It is feared that when traveling abroad, it will even transmit the virus or contract it. The situation in Saudi Arabia is also not safe. It is proven that the government has closed dozens of mosques again, because new corona cases have been discovered.
Do not easily believe if there is news let alone only sourced from online media. anyone can write on the internet, including radicals. They deliberately use the moment of the co-19 pandemic to earn sympathy and support from all Indonesian people to help hate the government and especially the President. You do this by creating hoaxes and news narratives that always denounce government regulations.
Be a smart person when surfing the internet. Do not even spread the news of the results of the forward in the WA group, especially with the frill ‘from the next group’, because the truth is questioned. Check whether it’s a hoax or not. If carried away with the desire to continue hoax news, the radical kum is actually happy because it has succeeded in expanding its influence in cyberspace.
Radicals take the moment of the co-19 pandemic to spread their false teachings. They deliberately make hoax news and badmouth the government. Do not easily believe the words of the broadcast results because it could be fake news.
)* Active writer in the Press Circle and Cikini Students