{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.021848739495798318, 'fraction_numerical': 0.004481792717086834, 'mean_word_length': 5.333333333333333, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 1, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Opportunity for Harmony? Social Empathy of Ahmadi and Sunda Wiwitan Women during Pandemic

Within these couple months, we are witnessing series of shifting and changing of social landscapes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Despite the global experience, there are groups or communities which shaped their perception differently due to their particular dynamics. Women surely have their ideas of COVID-19 which can be differentiated from other sexual identities; even more specific with experiences shared by women in minority groups with a unique set of beliefs and interaction. The selection of particular groups (women in minority group), served as a micro topic to complete a larger frame of joint-research on “Reshaping New Urban Living: Indonesian Women and Coronavirus” conducted by Indonesia Consortium of Religious Studies (ICRS) and Ford Foundation. Social empathy promoted by women will be employed as a theoretical framework to depict whether or not repression to their beliefs affect their social interaction during the pandemic. To do so, an in-depth interview is conducted with women from Jamaah Ahmadi and Sunda Wiwitan as primary informants. A combined observation of social media (by following Whatsapp status, Facebook, and community website) served as a substitute for face to face gestures since this research is conducted during the period of physical distancing in Indonesia (from June to August 2020). Findings will be delivered in the last part of this article which reflects their perception and action of social empathy, also their relation with wider social groups. The scope of this article, however, only limited to discuss the opportunities and challenges of interfaith interaction during Pandemic. Keyword: Religious Harmony, Minority, Social Empathy, Women