Rembang City is the small city in Central Java Province that located in Java Northern Shore. Rembang is known as a city where Raden Ajeng Kartini fought until the end of her life. Her struggle to fight against Indonesian women rights is so meritorious because of her. Indonesian women be able to be everything they want to be without having to hide now.
The situation in the middle of a pandemic like now, make all of the people encouraged to still in their house, including Rembang people too. Since today, already counted more than two weeks the streets is crowded again. The streets crowded because of cycling trend in Rembang now.
After already more than two weeks stay at home, the people feel saturated and bored at the same time. This boredom cause the cycling trend in Rembang City. This trend is appear in the middle of pandemic like now. Cycling trend is followed by all groups of people, starting from children, teenagers, adults, to parents strong to do it.
The route that passed when do this cycling is the south of Rembang, that is streets to Sulang Subdistrict. Those streets is selected by the people because the streets is rural streets and quiet from motor vehicle. The atmosphere is beautiful and the air is cool with the view of rice field along the right and left of the streets. This Cycling is done in every morning and afternoon before iftar time that called "ngabuburit".
The protect equipment such as mask and bring hand sanitizer is the thing that done by cyclist to still protect themselves and keep theirbody healthy despite being outside. Keep the distance during cycling is done to keep doing social distancing too. Via Dana (15) one of cyclist claimed that he had done this cycling long before the pandemic like now.
"Yeah, I really like to cycling. Since long before the corona virus like now, I really have been cycling regularly everyday in every afternoon, because I love cycling. When I'm cycling, I wear the protect equipment for cyclist, like mask, gloves, and helmet. I love cycling because despite makes me healthy, I can cycling around to view anything.", Dana said when encountered in Monday. (4/5/2020)
Different with Niken Ayu (17), one of the teenagers that followed this cycling trend too. She said that she feels bored because she just stay at her house.
"It's more than two weeks I just stay at my home. I feel so bored because nothing to do when I just stay at home. Doing this cycling is to keep my health still healthy because this kind of sport. When I'm cycling, I always wear mask and keep the secure distance with my friends. After doing cycling, I immediately cleaned up my body and go to bath." Niken said in Monday. (4/5/2020)
Many people that already know about the healthy protocol that issued by Indonesian Health Minsitry, such as wearing mask when being outside, always cleaned up your hands, and keep the secure distance (social distancing).
However, there are still many people that ignore that healthy protocol and precisely use it to meet their friends. Even more after the statement from government that all the number of covid-19 patients in Rembang is already get well. Nevertheless, the people is used to keep alert becase the dissemination of this new virus is very fast.