Does Indonesia have Halloween?
Not observed here
Halloween is not on Indonesia's holiday list, and the way that list is built leaves no slot for it. Presidential Decision No. 8 of 2024, signed on 29 January 2024, consolidated rules that had been scattered across several earlier decrees and set sixteen public holidays for that year — Gregorian New Year, Isra Mikraj, Lunar New Year, Nyepi, Good Friday, Easter, Idulfitri, Labour Day, Ascension, Waisak, Pancasila Day, Iduladha, Islamic New Year, Independence Day, Maulid and Christmas. October contained none at all. For 2026 the instrument is a joint decree of three ministers — religious affairs, manpower, and administrative reform — numbered 1497/2025, 2/2025 and 5/2025 and issued on 19 September 2025, setting seventeen national holidays plus eight collective leave days. The list is built almost entirely from Islamic, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Confucian religious dates plus dates of state; a structure like that has no place to put an imported secular festival. In practice Halloween lives in the malls, clubs and international schools of Jakarta and Bali. We found no statement on Halloween from the Indonesian central government.
What is this topic?
No country on this board has made Halloween on 31 October a public holiday. What differs is how far each government goes anyway. The United States leaves it out of the federal holiday statute, yet the FDA polices costume contact lenses as medical devices and one Ohio city moves trick-or-treating to 29 October in 2026. Japan has no national rule at all and two Tokyo wards with ordinances of their own — one of whose mayors published a request that people stay away. Brazil never gave the day off, and then legislated a rival festival onto the very same date.
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