Topic: Days of the Jewish calendar
Does Indonesia have Days of the Jewish calendar?
Not observed here
On 29 January 2024 Indonesia consolidated its public holidays, previously scattered across four older decrees, into Presidential Decree No. 8 of 2024: sixteen days in all. Those sixteen days carry five religious calendars. Islam has Isra Mi'raj, two days of Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, the Islamic New Year and the Prophet's birthday; Christianity has the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ and Christmas; Hinduism has Nyepi, the Saka new year; Buddhism has Vesak; Confucianism has the lunar new year. Not one day belongs to the Jewish calendar. What is worth noticing is that the decree already contains machinery for announcing a religious calendar year by year: the dates of the Islamic New Year, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha are set annually by the minister responsible for religious affairs. The machinery has been there all along. It has simply never been opened for this calendar.
What is this topic?
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Hanukkah are national holidays nowhere — not even in the United States, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, where the holidays for federal employees are fixed by statute at 5 U.S.C. 6103 and contain exactly one religious festival, Christmas. What differs from country to country is what a state offers instead. New York City closes its schools for Yom Kippur; New Jersey obliges every district to excuse a student on any of fourteen Jewish days; Brazil gives every student a statutory right to sit an exam on another date. Taiwan, Japan, China, India and Indonesia carry none of these days at all, and each for a different reason.
Sources and dates
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