Southeast Asia: faith groups and Covid
How are people of faith in Southeast Asia responding to the Covid pandemic?
Professor Peter Riddell, Senior Research Fellow of the Australian College of Theology
Some Muslim commentators in Southeast Asia emphasise Allah’s overarching sovereignty as the underlying cause of Covid. Ustadz Haerul Akmal of the Islamic University of Darussalam Gontor, Indonesia, commented that ‘Allah … wants to test his servants, which of them remains upright in carrying out all God’s commands and upright in avoiding all heinous deeds.’
