Commemoration of International Day of Peace 2020 was different from the previous year. During this pandemic we have to limiting face-to-face contact with others to reduce the spread of Coronavirus. Covid-19 outbreak made us to stay at home. Meanwhile we have so much time at home, we can explore our ideas and creativity when stay  at home.

This moment had initiated Messengers of Peace Indonesia Team to be more creative in organize an event, therefor we celebrated International Day of Peace virtually, without detracting the meaning of Peace Day itself.

The Commemoration of International Day of Peace 2020 was celebrated on 27 September 2020. We use Zoom Meeting to gather all partcipants from diferent provinces. The event began with singing the Indonesia Raya National Anthem. Then there was the speech from the International Commisioner, Mr. Ahmad Rusdi. The International Day of Peace is on September 21. However, we commemorate a week after that date.

After delivering his speech, Kak Rusdi immediately opened the Virtual Peace Run or Virtual World Peace Run. Virtual Peace Run is a 3 km route, with a maximum time of 30 minutes. Flag off at 07.20 am and cut off at 08.15 am (GMT +7). Participants run in their respective home areas using the Endomondo application. A total of 329 Virtual Peace Run participants came from Rovers, Eagle Scouts and Scout Leaders.During the run, Kak Rusdi was very excited to invite all Zoom participants to run on the spot. Apart from these activities, there was a short video competition on the theme of Peace. The competition was won by  Riska Cahya's Account. While waiting for the announcement of the winner of the Virtual Peace Run, we did fun quiz via Slido.

"We all have to keep our spirits up, adhere to Health Protocols because we don't want to create a new cluster. And the most important thing is that everyone has to make designs to be more creative in the future," said Youth Program Commisioner, Mr. Supriyadi, at the Sharing Session.

For 2020 Peace Day celebration, we create 2 activities in national event, i.e Virtual Peace Run 2020 and Short Video Competition on Peace. Refering to Peace Day 2020 theme: “Shaping Peace Together”, we persuade all participants to promoting peace in this activity.

Currently Indonesia is still struggling to defeat Covid-19, so we urge young people especially scouts to continously promoting peace and health protocol to prevent Covid-19.

Virtual Peace Run 2020 was attended by 309 participants from all over Indonesia, even some other NSO such as BSP and BSG, and for Short Video Competition was followed by 27 participants. The two activities on International Day of Peace dominated by rovers, and the rest are scout leaders and eagle scout.

In Virtual Peace Run 2020, all runers have to run for 3km, in area around participant’s house and for sure they have to follow the health protocol (3W: Wash your hands, Wear your mask, and Wait measure your distance), and they have to bring peace card commitment to promote positive activity and good deeds on PEACE DAY, on the top of that there are partcipants that print peace commitment on their running t-shirt. Virtual Peace Run is actually works exactly  the same as any other type of running but the difference is that the entered race can be run at any location, at any pace in another city. All we have to do is enter the a race and provide evidence that we have done it by using Endomondo App (A fitness tracker designed for maximum motivation, Endomondo uses your cell phone’s GPS to precisely record distance, pace, and more as you exercise. it connects you with friends so you can encourage each other.) In total more than 300 runners all across Indonesia have participated in this event. Stay phisically active during this self quarantine is good for our mental health.

Virtual Peace Run 2020, with  different time zone, different location but 1 purpose.... we do it for Peace. We are scout & We are Messengers of Peace.