When is New Year's Day in Indonesia?

Indonesia celebrates New Year's Day on January 1, which is New Year's Day on the solar calendar. On New Year's Day, families gather together to celebrate the arrival of the new year with a party or a song and dance.

Chinese Indonesians, on the other hand, celebrate New Year's Day on the first day of January on the lunar calendar, just like the Chinese

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Unlike New Year's Eve in China, in Indonesia, the timing of major holidays is different for each sect:

1. The Islamic holiday is Eid al-Fitr, ? Every year in the month of September of the Islamic calendar, the whole country Islamists have to implement daytime fasting and fasting, the first day after Ramadan is the Eid al-Fitr (date in the calendar between February and March).

On the eve of Eid al-Fitr, Islamists make charitable donations. The holiday is legally only a one-day vacation, but in practice it is usually more than three days, and some organizations even take more than a week off. People who work outside the home are rushing to return to their hometowns to reunite with their loved ones before Eid. The eve of Eid is a sleepless night, with mosques reciting long prayers throughout the night and the sound of chanting traveling in all directions through loud speakers.

On Eid al-Fitr, homes are cleaned and decorations made of young coconut leaves are hung in front of the doors. People are dressed in costume, visit each other, some organizations and groups also engage in reunion, the atmosphere is warm, a festive scene

2, the Hindu Protestant holiday is the Day of Residence, this holiday is equivalent to our country's New Year's Day, the time in the Balinese calendar on the first day of October.

This is a festival that is celebrated in a very unique way. A few days before the festival, people start to get busy, men clean the yard, make puppets that look like devils, lions, dragons, etc., while women make new clothes and cakes for the festival. The day before the festival is a day of celebration, and the people go to the festival in their colorful national costumes with high spirits and joy.

On the day of the festival, Bali has a completely different scene: there are no pedestrians or vehicles on the streets, except for police officers, police cars, ambulances and tourist vehicles, and all the stores are closed for business. After nightfall, no lights were lit in every house, the whole island of Bali was pitch black without a single light, and all entertainment venues stopped their activities without a sound.

People shut their doors all day long, do not make fires, do not cook, do not have fun or sadness, but just quietly think about the past, purify their souls, in order to seek inner peace, and then dissolve it in the serenity of the natural world, to achieve the real "empty" and "quiet! "In order to start everything from scratch in the new year and to live according to God's revelation and will.

3. The festival of Indonesian Buddhism is Wesak Day: it is the day when Indonesian Buddhism commemorates the enlightenment of Lord Buddha. Every time this festival, Buddhists from all over the country gather to Borobudur, Mendut and other monasteries in Central Java to hold a grand celebration.

References:

Bright.com-Indonesian Traditional Festivals