Muslim Groups Urge Indonesians to Pray at Home as Virus Spreads

With the coronavirus infection in Indonesia surging in the past week, Islamic groups in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation urged worshipers 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 worshipers.