Accountability of mosque administrators against violation of Covid-19 health protocols in the mosque environment

• Main Authors: Refina Mirza Devianti, Tomy Michael
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ümit Hacıoğlu 2021-03-01
• Series: International Journal of Research In Business and Social Science
• Subjects: health protocol, responsibility, mosque management; covid-19
• Online Access: https://www.ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijrbs/article/view/1050

The Covid-19 is a new virus found in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, to be precise in December.  This virus spreads very quickly to various parts of the world, causing access between countries to be closed in anticipation of the transmission of covid-19. Covid-19 can be transmitted from one person to another by touching objects that have been exposed to a person with Covid-19 and can also catch it through coughing or sneezing droplets from that person. The existence of Covid-19 has led to changes in the order of life from normal to having to comply with health protocols implemented by the government in various places to anticipate the spread of covid-19, for example in implementing health protocols in places of worship and in crowded places.  In terms of performing worship in a mosque environment, a person is obliged to obey the protocols that have been implemented but in reality, many people don’t comply with health protocols and don’t care about the safety of others. If this is the case, then the mosque administrators or as takmir of the mosque must be responsible for the violations that occur because they are supposed to enforce health protocols in the mosque environment which is their obligation. The research method used by researchers is normative legal research with a statutory and case approach. The takmir of the mosque as the person in charge of all activities carried out in the mosque must fulfill its responsibility in a civil manner towards public disobedience to health protocols that aren’t obeyed because the mosque takmir should strictly enforce the health protocol