Vice President Ma’ruf Amin has appealed to public, especially Indonesian young generation, to not only feel content with the minimum standards of local capabilities, but to push themselves to comply to the international standards in terms of pandemic handling.
“Do not feel content with the minimum standards of local capabilities, but push ourselves to be able to comply the international standards,” Amin noted in his speech during the second batch graduation of the Syeikh Nawawi Tanara Fiqh College held virtually here on Sunday.
Complying the international capability standard can be manifested in the COVID-19 pandemic handling, he mentioned.
To this end, Indonesia should be ready to face various global issues on COVID-19 since the countries around the world have intensified cooperation on the pandemic handling, Amin highlighted.
“The world has become more unified, so that we need to be ready to face various global issues. For instance, we are currently still dealing with the COVID-19 cases not transmitted locally, but internationally,” he explained.
The vice president emphasized that the pandemic handling is not merely health issue, but also the religious issue since handling the COVID-19 means saving lives.
“Self-protection, based on the religious view, is obligatory. It means we must protect ourselves from the upcoming health problems since COVID-19 is not a suspected danger anymore, but it is real,” he remarked.
Having treatment when exposed to COVID-19 is mandatory since it is such a religious issue in line with the sharia law to protect ourselves from outbreak, he added.
Source: Antara News