Celebrating Lebaran May Change but Not Its Meaning
This year, the celebration was quite different amid social restrictions imposed by the government to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission.
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Comparison of the atmosphere of the Astrid field in the Bogor Botanical Gardens complex, Bogor, when the Eid Al-Fitr Prayer was not held with the Eid Al-Fitr Prayer atmosphere last year, Sunday (24/5/2020). During the Covid-19 pandemic the Bogor Botanical Gardens did not hold the Id Eid Al-Fitr 1441 H / 2020 prayer. The Bogor Botanical Garden was one of the destinations for the Bogor people to attend the Eid prayer during Eid Al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Lebaran is usually celebrated with a feeling of togetherness and excitement. This year, the celebration was quite different amid social restrictions imposed by the government to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission. However, the situation did not lesson the importance of Idul Fitri itself.
Ahead of Idul Fitri, the government and religious leaders appealed to the public to hold Idul Fitri prayers at home. People were asked not to go on the annual mudik (exodus) or to hold an open houses to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission.