THE DOMESTIFICATION OF RAMADAN WORSHIPS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDONESIA
This article reveals that the fight against COVID-19 cannot be done only through medical approaches, but also through religious approaches. The policies of social and physical distancing by the Indonesian government, which are aimed at stopping and reducing the COVID-19 transmission encounter obstacles of cultural and religious beliefs. Health reasoning versus religious reasoning. Government policies through circulars of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the recommendations of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) regarding the guidelines for performing Ramadhan worship during the COVID-19 pandemic is an effort to strengthen the social and physical distancing policies to be complied with by the public. The circulars and recommendations have shifted the practices of worship that has a public dimension to a domestic dimension. Those documents have also been a way to justify that social and physical distancing are in proper accordance with Islamic religious teachings.
social distancing, Ramadhan Worships, COVID-19, state regulation, religion mitigation