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International Student Collaboration in Efforts to Raise Public International Student Collaboration in Efforts to Raise Public Awareness of COVID-19 Prevention
Awareness of COVID-19 Prevention
Faisal Husen Ismail
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia, [email protected] Rohmah Rohmah
Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten (UIN SMH Banten), Indonesia, [email protected]
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International Student Collaboration in Efforts to Raise Public Awareness of COVID-19 Prevention
Faisal Husen Ismail
1*, Rohmah
2, Intan Nur Syaheera Ibrahim
1, Cheam Kai Wen
11Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia
2Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten (UIN SMH Banten), Indonesia
*Correspondence email: [email protected] Received: December 13th, 2020, Accepted: December 13th, 2021
Abstract This study evaluates the enforcement of public health protocols in deciding the COVID-19 distribution chain. The evaluation is based on contributions among international students in higher education and examined their experiences and activities engaging in activities against the COVID- 19 epidemic. The research focuses on the collaborative activities of students of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia with Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin State Islamic University Banten, Indonesia. Through observation and direct and online involvement with the community, the study is qualitative and employs an inductive approach. Survey feedback was received in collaboration with five students from each university. This study is qualitative using an inductive approach, through observation and direct interaction with the community. The results show that there are still among the public in Santri Village who ignore the dangerous threat of COVID-19 to their health.
The results also found that the community did not fully implement the health protocol. This study proposes a more detailed study of the attitudes of communities ignoring the dangerous threat of disease outbreaks to themselves. This collaboration faces constraints from the point of view of not yet yielding optimal results and requiring more creative efforts to help the community increase their awareness to carry out health protocols in times of disaster.
Keywords: COVID-19; health protocol; Indonesia; International Students Collaboration; Santri Village.
1. Introduction
Learning and education nowadays have expanded. Several significant changes have taken place in most countries in the conduct of the higher education industry (Marioni, 2020). The need for student exposure to programs and collaborations at the local and global levels continues to be driven. Higher education institutions encourage students to have intellectual skills in class as well as talents beyond the classroom, such as public contact skills. Furthermore, this research believes that exposing students to international levels through joint programs will provide them with additional abilities (Bassani & Buchem, 2019). Transformations in the way universities
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work have resulted from these changes, which have opened up a larger network of educational organizations and connected them to the international level.
Due to limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and institutions must change how they administer programs at the international level. Thus, programs planned during the COVID-19 pandemic need to consider the new norms. The planned program had to be run online. Among the programs that are also conducted online is the collaboration program between Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) students and Universiti Sultan Hasanuddin Banten Indonesia.
Coronavirus (CoV) or COVID-19 is a serious epidemic of infection especially respiratory tract infections (Brake et al., 2020). It was found in China and is the latest COVID-19 after Missile East Respiratory syndrome-related COVID-19 (MER-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19 (SARS). COVID-19 infection starts from the common cold and spreads to serious pneumonia.
Up until now, no one has had the experience to deal with these symptoms due to the lack of experience to deal with the COVID-19 virus. However, all parties including the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) and the Ministry of Health Indonesia (KEMKES-RI) work with the World Health Organization (WHO) to study and learn the behavior and characteristics of this COVID-19. The MOH and KEMKES-RI believe that the experience of strict public health principles such as practicing social imprisonment and wearing a face mask can reduce the spread of the virus and reduce the likelihood of being infected with COVID-19.
COVID-19 is difficult to regulate because the mode of transmission has yet to be identified, and even human-to-human transmission has been widespread. Because these infections are contagious and spread quickly, people must maintain personal cleanliness and be cautious from time to time. Information on this disease can be obtained through the MOH website or KEMKES-RI. The public can help reduce the spread of the virus by wearing a face mask (3- ply face mask) because the face mask is a barrier to dripping and spitting saliva on others or receiving saliva splashes from others (Astuti et al., 2020). Wearing N95 mouth and nose masks is less suitable for the public. This is because wearing the N95 mask will cause breathing difficulties. The use of the N95 mask as a mouth and nose mask is more suitable for use by high-risk health personnel because the filtering quality is better.
The main symptoms of COVID-19 are cough, fever, and shortness of breath. If a person has symptoms of cough, runny nose, and fever and has just returned from abroad with a case of pneumonia due to COVID-19 infection should be checked at a health facility near their respective beds and the use of face and nose masks (surgical mask) should be worn when
getting treatment there. Since there is no specific treatment or antiviral drug to cope with COVID-19 at this time, the health facility's treatment is to ease the patient's symptoms. Side effects of COVID-19 infection will cause severe illness and tend to lead to death. COVID-19 is more effective in people, especially the elderly who have low immunity or people with a bad body health history. The detailed characteristics of COVID-19 are not yet known and change over time.
The line of assistance given by MOH or KEMENKES-RI will be updated from time to time.
Both health ministries also instructed the public to postpone or avoid visiting China or other countries with high COVID-19 cases except for important matters and failures. The Malaysian government has listed citizens of certain countries to enter Malaysia because they have the risk of bringing in COVID-19. The public is requested to seek medical treatment at once within 14 days after returning from a foreign country. Intended infections include fever, cough, or difficulty breathing (symptoms of respiratory tract infections).
Informing the history of self-travel to the doctor giving treatment is important and necessary to increase his attention to confirm COVID-19 infection. The return of Indonesian and Malaysian citizens from dangerous nations must adhere to the health ministry's guidelines. A two-week quarantine is carried out to guarantee that a person returning from overseas does not bring the COVID-19 virus with them. This health protocol is practiced as a preventive measure and reduces the risk of COVID-19 transmission (Prayitno et al., 2020).
The public should always wear a face mask and use a face mask and use water and soap or hand sanitizer to ensure an important level of personal hygiene. The public is expected to reduce close association with the public during the visit as well as avoid visiting crowded and crowded places. Also, avoid touching live animals whether livestock or wild animals while visiting a foreign country. Foods such as raw or undercooked animals should be avoided during the visit to minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19.
In addition, if people are nearby and have symptoms of respiratory infections, they should conduct an examination and get treatment from a professional to control the spread of COVID- 19. If they are not symptomatic and healthy, they are recommended to stay at home for two weeks and be given a Health Alert Card and Home Assessment Tool. Health Alert Card should be brought when receiving treatment at a health facility in case of symptoms.
At this point, visits abroad, especially to countries and areas with cases of COVID-19 infection should be avoided if there is no critical need. This issue should be highlighted and taken into account, particularly by travel firms, and strict inspections should be performed by workers who have a history of visiting countries with a high number of COVID-19 infections.
Starting from 10 January 2020, MOH monitors the situation of COVID-19 infection outbreaks every day to inform the current situation of the country (Ketua Pengarah Kasihatan Malaysia, 2020). MOH has taken various actions to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19. These include opening the COVID-19 Operations Room and informing of the outbreak situation through press releases and live broadcast announcements. Malaysia's international entrances are screened by symptomatic screening. Selected hospitals have been chosen as places to make referrals and isolation for communities affected by COVID-19. While the health facility is a place to do symptomatic screening.
MOH and KEMENKES-RI also check the place of isolation on people who make close contact with people who are infected with the virus. MOH and KEMENKES-RI expand hospital isolation capacity to make the isolation process easier for COVID-19 patients.
COVID-19 testing has been ongoing, and MOH and KEMENKES-RI have increased laboratory capacity. The effective and proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) should be learned by health staff. They are given training and instruction on how to apply PPE properly. The Ministry of Health has a role to play in educating the public about the symptoms of COVID-19. In addition, the Ministry of Health provides a stockpile of PPE and adequate medications to treat symptoms and complications of COVID-19. The provision of health care must continue until the COVID-19 can be managed and then eliminated by the human body's immune system. Even the enforcement of this health protocol is also carried out up to the level of the village community. Therefore, this study was implemented for the enforcement of health protocols in the village of Santri in Banten Indonesia.
Meanwhile, according to the Minister of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia 2014–2019 Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, a student also has the meaning of being an ambassador of peace (Nurhayati & Suhardin, 2020). Meanwhile, Islam comes from the word salam which means peace. That is the essence of the student's soul. According to him, students have the duty and responsibility to spread peace to anyone, anywhere, and anytime.
While the word Village according to Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language (KBBI) is a group of houses that are part of the city and are usually inhabited by low-income people.
Apart from that, the village is also named Dusun, the smallest administrative unit that occupies a certain area. Therefore, Santri Village can be defined as a village that is part of the city where there is a boarding school (Pondok / Pondok modern). In the santri village, a surau or mosque was also built as a center for da’wa and religious study activities. Kiai is the dai figure in charge of communicating and teaching religious information. While Kiai students are known as santri.
To help students from outside the village who come to seek knowledge, accommodation is an
important requirement. So, simple rooms are developed around the mosque or kiai house.
When the number of student houses increased due to the increase in the number of students, the place changed to “pesantren,” which is where students live. This situation allows the public to mix with students who study so that the relationship between pesantren and the community is close.
In addition to the practice of seeking knowledge, students are also encouraged to prove relationships with the outside world. This is to allow knowledge transfer to occur between the knowledge required in the place of study and other parties, including students from foreign countries. Therefore, the practice of collaboration is importantly implemented in education especially in self-improvement toward better. The implementation of this inclusive education is an important agenda in 21st-century education. Collaboration can strengthen the relationship between its members consisting of various backgrounds, levels of education, types of employment, socio-economic status, race, and religion. Friend and Cook (2012), define collaboration as a style of direct communication in achieving common goals. Collaboration between universities can be done to get the results of views between students in generating ideas and solving problems.
According to Friend and Cook (2012), collaboration begins with a network of work, coordination, and cooperation that requires sharing in decision making, sharing responsibilities and resources, mutual trust, and mutual appreciation of individual opinions. This can avoid selfishness, instead of working together for mutual benefit. This collaboration also teaches pupils how to gain self-confidence and experience while participating in this activity. Students are taught how to develop and implement collaborative projects in a systematic manner as a result of this international collaboration. They need to prepare a working paper to implement the project in Santri Village, Banten Indonesia. First, students need to conduct a brief study to find the programs needed to prevent the occurrence of COVID-19 in Santri Village, Banten Indonesia.
The paper will be presented first in groups before being brought for discussion with the supervising lecturer. Using online networking, students are trained in collaboration skills so that they can form networks with group members and mentor lecturers in the implementation of planned projects. The emphasis of this partnership is on research undertaken by students before, during, and after the project. Learning through action research is ideal for undergraduate studies since students must complete projects that need problem-solving skills.
They are also trained to work in teams as well as develop leadership characteristics as well as organizational development (Care et al., 2018). According to Yarbrough (2017), a program is
an application as a systematic use of resources guided by logic, beliefs, and assumptions that find human needs and related factors.
Thus, the implementation of international collaboration between Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and the Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin State Islamic University of Banten Indonesia (UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin) is conducted to uphold health protocol in Santri Village, Banten Indonesia. It aims to ensure that measures are taken to prevent COVID-19 infection. Through this research collaborated to create some tactical measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in the community. This study also discusses the problems and suggested ideas related to activities carried out with the community of Ciceri Jaya village to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This prevention is important to be implemented to make the public aware of the importance of supporting good health to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
This research also found that there are a handful of people who are unaware of the existence of COVID-19 as well as ignore the health regulations set by the government. This demonstrates the significance of the program held to educate the community about dealing with worldwide calamities that are still violent to this day. Therefore, a study was conducted to show actions taken to supply awareness to the community about the dangers of COVID-19 as well as health protocol enforcement procedures through 3M enforcement programs and avoid 3S.
The observational approach in this study is very much in line with the analytical procedures conducted in this literature review (Yazan & De Vasconcelos, 2016). The literature of this study also refers to studies that have been conducted elsewhere by including synthesis reviews published in journals, books, and mass media. The case study examined is relevant to the specific topic stressed in this research, which is the creative development of students in offering awareness to the community of Santri Village in practicing health protocol enforcement in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Broman and Robèrt (2017) are more relevant by relating related issues and highlighting the results of exploration from various materials to improve the existing situation. The country aims to improve the quality of creative community service programs conducted by students of UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin and UTHM Johor, Malaysia, to help convey messages from the authorities to the public who are also assisted and monitored by university lecturers. In particular, there is a need to foster cooperation to assist the community in developing awareness and knowledge through creativity as a result of ongoing research involving scholars from universities in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as local communities as partners.
2. Methods
This article involved 41 UTHM students and 18 students from UIN Sultan Hasanuddin Banten, dividing them into five groups. Each group comprises 10 students, comprising five students from UTHM and five students from UIN Sultan Hasanuddin Banten. Two lecturers from each university guided each group, giving each group a specific theme. This study is themed COVID-19. The research was conducted for two weeks, namely, November 21, 2020, to December 4, 2020.
Implementing this international collaboration was carried out online as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified. Qualitative analysis through observations conducted by students of UIN Sultan Hasanuddin Banten. UTHM students conducted meetings related with UIN Sultan Hasanuddin via google meet. They had conversations to explore difficulties that arose in the field. Students actively participate through the platform, forming groups based on the responsibilities set for each group member. Implementing this program is carried out in Ciceri Jaya Village Banten Indonesia.
This study discusses the importance of creating awareness to the community in facing the threat of pandemic COVID-19 from the researcher's point of view. The idea for this international collaboration aims to promote technology to empower the socio-culture of the local community during this COVID-19 pandemic. This community service program is implemented by lecturers and students from UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten and assisted by students from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia online through discussion and giving ideas and promoting the implementation of this program due to geographical constraints and pandemic conditions COVID-19 which is still rampant today.
This community service program is inspired by the lack of public awareness in keeping personal hygiene to address the symptoms of COVID-19. Placement of sanitizer footprints, distribution of face masks, and acting as a facilitator to make the community aware in Santri Village, Ciceri Jaya, Banten, Indonesia. Arguments are formed through observational methods and the results are categorized as qualitative scientific methods (Krauss, 2005). This study emphasizes efforts to develop complete arguments and logic, (Jaakkola, 2020) organizational partnership theory and work across disciplines to expand the scope of thinking (Hatchuel &
Le, 2018).
The results of the observational method can create students' creativity to generate ideas to help the community improve their healthcare capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Furthermore, student innovation can aid the community's mental ability to tackle the pandemic in terms of dos and don'ts (what can and cannot be done) during the COVID-19 epidemic. This
basic concept is further equated to the variables studied in inductive research design. McGregor (2018) has constructed discourse following the following steps namely (a) investigating specific problems, (b) compiling, generating, and evaluating relevant evidence, (c) determining the importance of the focus topic which in turn creates paper happiness, and (d) organize voice arguments, logic, and reasoning on the issue.
3. Results and discussion
The international collaboration of UTHM and UIN Sultan Hasanuddin Banten students’
experiences driven out activities in Ciceri Jaya Village Banten. Implementing live activities was conducted by UIN Sultan Hasanuddin students. Meanwhile, UTHM students collaborate through the Google meet platform and WhatsApp. The accompanying is some activities conducted by UIN Sultan Hasanuddin and UTHM students to strengthen community awareness in Ciceri Jaya Village.
3.1. Establish a disaster resistance reserve to prevent the spread of Covid-19
Given the global situation facing the emergency disaster of the spread of COVID-19 then there must be precautionary measures to be taken. During the COVID-19 epidemic, it is important to take precautions so that the transmission of COVID-19 can be prevented. Many efforts can be made to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, ranging from the discipline of wearing a mask when performing activities in public places, maintaining physical distance, and washing hands properly. The WHO has told the importance of the role of handwashing in helping to suppress the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases (WHO, 2020a).
International collaboration is underway between UIN Sultan Hasanuddin Banten Indonesia students and UTHM Johor Malaysia to create a reserve for Santri Village to delay the COVID- 19 disaster. The public needs to be prepared for a “new normal” life during the COVID-19 pandemic until a vaccine is found (Andriani, 2020). This action is a government decree aimed at preserving the public's health and safety. Other villages must also prepare for the conclusion of the mystery COVID-19 pandemic. However, the preparation of Santri Village postponed the disaster so that it can be an example to other villages in the readiness to face a “new normal”
life that has never been faced before.
All parties must be involved in catastrophe resilience. To make this disaster resilience endeavor a success, village leaders, scholars, and the general public must all work together.
Disaster Resilience Reserve, on the other hand, is not a new concept; there are examples of disaster recovery villages undertaken in 2012, such as Regulation of the Head National Disaster
Management Authority (Perka BNPB) number 1 in 2012. The process for delayed villages is conducted by educating, training, and preparing the village community to be prepared for the same disaster. There are natural disasters as well as other disasters (Akhirianto, 2017). All elements of society engage in facing a catastrophic outbreak without excluding any rank and position.
Based on observations and surveys from group 5, various problems exist in the Ciceri Jaya environment and especially in Santri Village. Among the issues highlighted in the Ciceri Jaya environment is a lack of public understanding regarding the hazards of COVID-19.
Furthermore, there are insufficient facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Worse, the general public is unaware of COVID-19 prevention. The Santri Community is continuing unsafe practices that endanger their own lives, such as being in a throng without face masks and failing to maintain a social distance. This condition is particularly worrying due to the high COVID-19 conditions. According to observations in Santri Village, the absence of restrictions on their movement out of work regardless of health protocol due to fear of starvation from being exposed to COVID-19. They expect normal life to be active as usual to meet the needs of life. But this should not be allowed to continue because it can threaten their lives. Therefore, efforts are needed from both the government and the private sector to provide information on the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and the actions that need to be taken during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Therefore, in the prevention efforts of COVID-19 in Ciceri Jaya Environment, this paper offers the innovation of “Disaster Resilience Reserve.” The Proposed Disaster Reservation is an idea to make Santri Village a place or workspace in disaster management and prevention efforts. Disaster Resilience can be a space or place to gather ideas in disaster prevention efforts with creative models in the style of the current millennial generation. Students, as agents of change, have a responsibility to contribute to disaster prevention efforts by providing varied disaster prevention education. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, this study recommends that the communities of Ciceri Jaya Village and Santri Village carry out health protocols. Providing education to the village community to increase awareness and discipline of the community to practice the instructions of the Ministry of Health care at the maximum level to take care of themselves infected COVID-19. In addition, the community needs to be disciplined in conducting health protocols. Similarly, this study encourages the involvement of the Santri Village community to move the economy and help each other in a pandemic situation.
However, the success of the Disaster Resilience Reserve depends on the readiness related to the understanding and attitude of the village community itself. They must be willing to
implement health protocols in daily life. The use of face masks, developing hands with soap, or staying away from crowds are the three main practices set by KEMENKES to curb the spread of COVID-19. If this discipline can be practiced, then economic improvement will also return to normal to the community of Santri Village. Similarly, the government can carry out the responsibility to develop the people's economy back when the country has been able to fully control the spread of COVID-19 (Yusrizal, 2020).
Therefore, a “new normal” life is a willingness to carry out health protocols to curb COVID- 19. Control of COVID-19 is critical to re-establishing the community's economy. Reducing societal problems caused by COVID-19 can lead to a better scenario if the pandemic is stopped or reduced to a minimum. As a result, the fight against COVID-19 requires the cooperation of all stakeholders in Santri Village. The involvement of the pillars of neighbors, citizens, and even the head of each family as a frontline (front line) is highly efficient in constructing a robust community in the face of the COVID-19 calamity. In this regard, this research also invites the head of Rukun Tetangga (Neighborhood) and Rukun Warga (citizens association) as well as parents in Santri Village to support the Disaster Resilience Reserve program to break the COVID-19 distribution chain. This is remarkably effective because they are the ones who face the community directly and know in more detail the situation of the local community.
In addition, the enforcement also needs to help enforce the laws set by the government. The Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Police are the authoritative bodies of law enforcement. They need to discipline a society that is still stubborn and does not want to follow legal instructions because COVID-19 is still spreading rapidly. This enforcement must continue until COVID-19 is contained and vaccinations are developed. Similarly, regular patrols into Santri Village are required to guarantee that the population follows health regulations. Until now, no Santri Village community has been infected with COVID-19. This needs to be supported and not neglected in enforcing health protocols to ensure that the community continues to maintain its health and survive from being infected with COVID-19.
Therefore, it is hoped that the cooperation of all parties and the priority of the existence of awareness from the community of Santri Village so that the plan of new life procedures during the pandemic can be passed as best as possible.
For the success of the COVID-19 prevention program, volunteers among the local community as facilitators to provide COVID-19 prevention information to the community.
Throughout the program, pilgrimage activities with the public were conducted to channel information and ask about their health. Through these activities, the community is directly provided with relevant information to raise awareness of the need to implement health
protocols during a pandemic period. In addition, this study has also supplied information on the existence of COVID-19 close to where they live and potentially exposed to COVID-19 when not implementing health protocols.
3.2. Giving mask to the community
The first day of activity in Santri Village was an aid to the community to increase understanding and awareness regarding COVID-19. Maintaining personal hygiene, home and environment as well as adhering to health protocols are things that need to be emphasized by the community.
At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, compliance with the health protocol, namely the implementation of 3M by washing hands often, wearing coverings, and keeping a distance (Le et al., 2020). The first mentoring session conducted has received encouraging response from the local community. Explanations and advice related to health protocols were received and heard by the villagers of Ciceri Jaya.The residents of Santri Village are also involved in the implementation of this program by coaching them. Active community involvement is the goal this research is trying to achieve so that the message the government wants to convey reaches the community directly. The implementation of mentoring to the community went well. The smooth running of the mentoring is also helped by the Resilient Disaster Reserve volunteers that recruited previously. The volunteers recruited consisted of people from the Santri Village and Santri students from the Santri Village.
While guiding to raise awareness to the crowd about the dangers of COVID-19, this research found that there were still experts in the Santri Village community who did not believe in the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to a lack of knowledge and distrust of the COVID-19, many people still do not care about the importance of maintaining health and implementing 3M health protocols (Berlinger et al., 2020; WHO, 2020b). The villages in Indonesia should have started to become independent and take the initiative to prevent transmission and prevent problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation encourages us to help the community by directly reaching residents, especially residents of the Santri Village. Volunteers from the Resilient Disaster Reserve assisted in monitoring for compliance with health protocols, which was later continued after the pandemic ended. Information to the villagers about what is COVID-19? What are the symptoms of COVID-19? How is the spread of COVID-19? Who is most at risk of contracting COVID-19? How to care for it? All these things need to be conveyed to the people of Santri Village.
In addition to educational actions on the socialization of health protocols to prevent COVID- 19, the activity was to distribute free face masks to the Ciceri Jaya community and students in
Santri Village. The goal is for the general public to pay greater attention to being healthy and to raise awareness about the need of adhering to health protocols. As a result, efforts to break the COVID-19 chain must continue unabated in order to protect the pandemic and find a vaccine. Giving this face mask is also one of the steps to anticipate the spread of COVID-19.
In addition, it is necessary to warn the Rukun Tetangga (Neighborhood) and Rukun Warga (citizens association) village apparatus for those who do not obey those who wear a blindfold.
This is because the risk to the spread of COVID-19 is greater if people meet and talk without wearing a covering.
3.3. Radiant dormitory competition event
School institutions are places to equip themselves with certain knowledge and skills to achieve a better life (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 2003). As a result, a pleasant and favorable environment provides and assists pupils in being able to acquire knowledge and study it more efficiently.
Everyone in the school environment, including instructors, students, and schools, must work together to establish a welcoming environment (Amponsah et al., 2019). Every student will be successful and enjoy being in his or her school dormitory in a clean and cheerful state (Jaffe et al., 2019).
Therefore, the management needs to formulate strategies and ways to preserve the cheerfulness and cleanliness of the special student dormitory school. This practice is in line with the Islamic guidelines commanded by the Prophet Muhammad Sall’Allahu alayhi wasalam (SAW) regarding cleanliness as a part related to faith (Hadith narrated by Muslim, no. 328). Of course, the teacher talks about the cleanliness and cheerfulness of the pesantren in every assembly held at the school every morning every weekly assembly. Parents' methods are often seen as serious about the cleanliness of the study place and the dormitory where their children study. Therefore, all parties must pay attention and help to create a clean and cheerful pesantren.
The effort to create a cheerful hostel for students of Santri village is another activity to achieve the objective of fighting Covid-19. This initiative is done to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in Santri Village. The radiant hostel is a hostel hygiene competition to create a clean, compatible, and beautiful hostel. This is because the hostel is a place that must be well cared for and treated far away from various germs that can cause various diseases. There are 12 male and female student dormitories in Santri Village. Students in this dormitory are living in a period of knowledge. The hostel competition placed on Saturday and Sunday, November 28 and 29, 2020. The assessment consists of cleanliness, cleanliness, and beauty and the
availability of facilities related to the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 (Mamadaliyeva, 2018). The purpose of this program is to motivate students to always keep the cleanliness, beauty, and cleanliness of the hostel every day, as well as always keep health protocols. The assessed was carried out within two days, it turned out that their hostel was exceptionally clean, tidy, beautiful, and comfortable. There will be students who need a dormitory where their accommodation is not clean and tidy. This is because there is a clean non-painful attitude and neatness seems to be scattered due to the lack of layout of goods placed everywhere.
In the 12 hostels of Santri Village, there are facilities related to the prevention of the spread of COVID-19, which is a handwashing place that should have more in front of the hostel. Next, notification and recommendation to residents to adhere to health protocols by hand washing, wearing face masks, and keeping their distance. They are also reminded not to be careless to keep the dormitory and school environment clean and conducive.
Many methods or programs can be implemented to cheer up the pesantren hostel due to time restrictions. Every weekend, the first collaboration program can be run. Students help clean the canteen, the dormitory drain, the bathroom, or the toilet. This cooperation should be carried out to give awareness to students about the need for area hygiene to increase awareness of hygiene demands and create conducive hostels (Taylor & Peace, 2015). In addition, cooperation can also create a cooperative attitude of pesantren residents can work together to maintain cleanliness and beauty as well as neatness of class and hostel (Mustam & Daniel, 2018).
Cooperation activities must be planned periodically and continuously as well as hostel and school activities during the current pandemic and beyond in the future. This hygiene is also intended to keep pesantren safe against dengue mosquito illness and food poisoning (Syahrin et al., 2020). Aside from that, painting the pesantren building collaboratively can be done to boost the cheerfulness of the pesantren as well as the comfort of students seeking education.
All of this cannot be accomplished just by the pesantren administration, and the support of the students' parents is also expected.
In addition to the cheerfulness of the hostel, the cheerfulness of the class should also be noted. Beautiful class competitions can also be done by the pesantren administration to motivate students to always pay attention to cleanliness (Raman et al., 2018). Students can play their respective roles by sweeping the garbage, wiping the mirrors, arranging tables and chairs.
Matches can be separated by categories such as the most beautiful class, the cleanest class, and the most organized class. A panel of assessors is made up of teachers. Every week, on the day of the student assembly, the cleanest and dirtiest class announcements are announced. Of
course, the cleanest or orderly students will continue to strive to keep their class performance.
While the dirtiest class will feel ashamed and try to improve the condition of their class at a better level. This is an encouragement from Islam to race to do good. Thus, this situation can build a caring attitude of students to keep cleanliness. The construction of this cleaning attitude is also important in keeping the school clean and cheerful (do Paco et al., 2019). The goal of keeping the pesantren environment clean and cheerful can be realized in these ways, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
3.4. Hold international collaboration talk show
Explanations and announcements of COVID-19 education to the people of Santri Village have also been conducted through online talk shows. The “Talk Show” which was held discussed the issue of handling COVID-19 in Indonesia and Malaysia as well as the steps to prevent COVID-19. The program involves a two-way conversation in which the host, Indonesia, presents speakers from the task force who are actively involved in handling COVID-19. In the talk show, discussions were carried out regarding various topics related to COVID-19 and attended online by guests who may be experts as well as ordinary people and students who listen to or watch.
Preparation for the program by taking three days to get resource speakers and students to follow the program. Discussion with the group experts to discuss various issues related to this talk show program. The discussions were aimed at reviewing the program's contents as well as the measures and actions that needed to be performed to carry out the program. All group specialists have been assigned cases to solve before the International Collaboration Talk Show program can be graduated and run successfully. This program was held to realize activities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to the public. For this program, a Talk Show has been held in collaboration between two countries, namely Indonesia and Malaysia.
This program is conducted in conjunction with the partnership of the Indonesian COVID- 19 prevention task force and lecturer Malaysia's UTHM. This program is held to get ideas from both countries and share experiences in managing the prevention of COVID-19 in Indonesia and Malaysia to break the chain of its spread. As many as 257 students from two countries have taken part in this Talk Show program as participation and it is a program that has received tremendous welcome. The use of Indonesian and Malaysian languages is also employed to aid in the delivery of the edict's contents, making it more memorable and interesting for talk show participants to understand. This program has been going on for two hours and the participants have given excellent cooperation during this program. Participants from the two countries were
actively involved by raising questions related to the handling of the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia and Malaysia.
It is hoped that the results of the partnership will create public awareness in efforts to prevent COVID-19. Indirectly, the formation of a community that cares about the prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, through this program hopefully there will be aware of the community to implement health protocols by always taking care of 3M (washing hands, wearing coverings, and maintaining physical distance) and avoiding 3S (avoiding crowded places, narrow places, and close speaking) in their daily lives. Finally, through this international collaboration program, good cooperation between two countries has also been formed to work hand in hand to make efforts to break the chain of the spread of COVID-19. Also, it will manifest awareness and a better understanding of the public, especially the people of Santri Village regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
4. Conclusion
This study provides a discourse on the formation of creativity among students in helping the government enforce the power of health protocols in the grassroots community. This is an enhancement of students' roles and responsibilities to the surrounding community. This is because the presence of students as intellectuals teaches beneficial things to society. Therefore, a collaboration between nations may be an alternative trigger for a higher level of community service quality through closer interaction and guidance between scholars and students as partners. Studies related to the solemn development of the community online have not yet appeared so that the COVID-19 pandemic is in effect. Therefore, based on qualitative study, the establishment of the COVID-19 Disaster Resilient Village in the environment of high education has the potential to involve even more academics to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Even if the findings of this field research, particularly in Santri Village, reveal that the community's concerns are solvable, the remedies are neither complete nor continuous. For example, problems associated with work-related daily life conditions expose individuals to the hazards of COVID-19. However, this problem can be helped by understanding to the community the strength to protect lives, most importantly, rather than exposure to the virus compared to work, which can reduce its activity during a pandemic so that a vaccine is found.
However, the prolonged pandemic state led to neglect of health protocols.
Students and scholars, as community partners, cannot provide full assistance in a single or two visits, nor can they provide the principle of online knowledge exchange. This is due to limitations in the ability to use technology rather than the inhabitants of Santri Village. Besides,
it is also a restraint from the point of view of financial restraint in financing internet and electronic equipment. Therefore, it is reserved that guidance and training are carried out continuously because maintaining the health and cleanliness of the residence for the common people and the cleanliness of the dormitories and schools for students are necessities in daily life.
The existence of monitoring from authorities to enforce the law to enforce health protocols also helps discipline the common people to perpetuate society rather than being infected with the disease and the COVID-19 pandemic virus. Being creative in managing the pesantren to urge students to maintain personal hygiene and cleanliness in their homes can also aid in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19. The top priority of assisting people in breaking the chain of spreading COVID-19 is international collaboration efforts to help provide understanding to the community. People's attitudes, on the other hand, play a vital role in maintaining one's health. However, it is necessary to conduct further studies for the next mapping needed to help the community break the chain of spreading COVID-19. Mapping is conducted as the stage of developing the businesses that have been conducted in this study. In addition, this mapping can help people with their needs in addressing the challenges of COVID- 19 that are not yet known when it ends. The results, rather than showing the needs of the people of Santri Village, are expected to supply positive results for the development of the Kampung Tangguh Bencana community.
Acknowledgment
We thank Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten Indonesia and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia and Community Santri Village for providing valuable insight that greatly contributed to the paper. We are also very grateful to have comments from reviewers of AJCE and proofreading outcomes that significantly improved the manuscript.
Declaration of Conflicting Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest for this manuscript.
Author Contribution
Faisal Husen Ismail, Intan Nur Syaheera Ibrahim, and Cheam Kai Wen conceived of the presented idea as well as developed theory and literature review. Cheam Kai Wen and Faisal Husen Ismail verified research and analytical methods. Rohmah, Intan Nur Syaheera Ibrahim, and Faisal Husen Ismail to update contents following comments from the reviewers and
supervised the findings of the relevant works, especially for those concerning the Santri Village contexts. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.
Short Biography
Faisal Bin Husen Ismail is a Doctor in Islamic Studies, a lecturer in the Department of Islamic studies of Center for General Studies and Co-curriculum, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia. He completed B.A. (Islamic law) at Al-Azhar University, Egypt, (2004), M.A. (Islamic Jurisprudence) at University Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia (2012), and Ph.D. (Islamic Criminal Law) at University Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia (2019). His research interests are in the field of sharia, Islamic criminal law, and Islamic inheritance. In addition to activities on campus, he is also active in the Focus Group of Islamic Revealed Knowledge (ISRAK UTHM).
Rohmah is a fourth-year student in the Faculty of Ushuluddin and Adab, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten (UIN SMH Banten), Indonesia.
Intan Nur Syaheera Ibrahim is a third-year student in the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education (FPTV), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia.
Cheam Kai Wen is a fourth-year student in the Faculty of Technology Management & Business (FPTP), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia.
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