A member of the Indonesian Red Cross sprayinf disinfectant, amid concerns of the coronavirus, at a radio station in Jakarta on Tuesday (March 17). Indonesia's capital city announced a lockdown of all tourist destinations and entertainment as well as the closing all of its public schools for 14 days amid the global coronavirus outbreak. - AP
JAKARTA: With the Covid-19 (coronavirus) infection in Indonesia surging in the past week, Islamic groups in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation urged worshippers to refrain from praying at mosques and shun all public religious activities.
Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Islamic group with around 140 million members, ordered mosque administrators across the archipelago to ensure hygiene of the facilities by spraying disinfectant at least once a day and to provide soap and hand sanitizers for worshippers.
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