In Indonesia, they thronged mosques and flocked to soccer fields and grass fields in metropolis parks to carry out the Eid mass prayer.
Muslims in Bogor Metropolis and its outskirts, as an example, crowded mosques.
Underneath a comparatively blue sky and the morning solar, many additionally trooped into the town’s Botanical Backyard’s grass area to carry out the Eid mass prayer.
In Jakarta, Residence Minister Tito Karnavian and hundreds of Muslims joined the Eid mass prayer on the Istiqlal Grand Mosque in Central Jakarta.
Talking to journalists after performing the prayer, Karnavian stated that this yr’s Eid al-Fitr will hopefully function a momentum for all Indonesians to reunite and transfer ahead on condition that the final elections have ended.
“Joyful Eid Mubarak. Insya Allah (God prepared), Eid al-Fitr will deliver us happiness and a greater, calmer, and extra peaceable state of affairs because the parliamentary and presidential elections are over,” he remarked.
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Individuals are at the moment awaiting the Constitutional Court docket’s (MK’s) last ruling on the presidential election outcome dispute filed by candidate pairs Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD in opposition to the Common Elections Fee (KPU) on March 25, 2024.
The courtroom is scheduled to resolve the election outcome dispute inside 14 working days of its submitting.
In the meantime, in Taiwan, which was lately rocked by a strong earthquake, round 18 thousand Indonesian Muslims — majority of them migrant employees — flocked to the Nationwide Taiwan Museum’s yard to supply the Eid mass prayer.
The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Preaching and Alms Division and the NU Particular Chapter in Taiwan co-organized the prayer.
In Canberra, Australia, a number of hundred members of the Indonesian diaspora crowded the Indonesian Embassy’s complicated on 8 Darwin Ave, Yarralumla, to have fun Eid al-Fitr.
The Eid celebration within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) began with a mass prayer, adopted by members of the congregation wishing one another Eid Mubarak and having fun with Lebaran dishes.
Earlier than the prayer commenced amid chilly climate, frequent chants of takbir (reward Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) may very well be heard.
Muhammad Teguh Ariffaiz Nasution, one of many Eid mass prayer congregants, stated on Wednesday morning that the temperature in ACT was about 8 levels Celsius.
“I’m freezing to attend for the Eid prayer to begin,” stated Nasution, who’s at the moment pursuing a postgraduate diploma in Strategic Research on the Australian Nationwide College.
Regardless of the comparatively chilly climate in Canberra, the individuals flocking to the Indonesian Embassy complicated for the Eid al-Fitr occasion seemed comfortable, he instructed ANTARA who contacted him from Bogor district, West Java.
The embassy’s Eid celebration occurred from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. native time and ended with a buffet that includes a number of genuine Indonesian dishes.
This yr, the embassy served rendang, which has been voted the world’s finest meals, telur balado (egg with balado sambal), sate ayam (hen satay), and sate kambing (goat meat satay).
Within the Eid sermon delivered after the prayer, the khatib (preacher), Ustadz Azhari Andi, emphasised the significance of unity, Nasution stated.
Andi, who represents Australia-based Dompet Dhuafa (Pockets of the Poor), an Indonesian Islamic philanthropic group, stated Islam is just not against unity and variety.
As a substitute, he argued that Allah creates diversities and variations between the human races on earth to allow them to compete with each other in doing good and looking for God’s blessings, Nasution knowledgeable.
On this regard, as Allah has created humankind from the soil, the sentiments of nationalism and patriotism are considered part of human nature and a manifestation of religion, as Andi was quoted as saying in his Eid sermon.
Within the meantime, in his speech on the Eid occasion, the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and the Republic of Vanuatu, Siswo Pramono, lauded the Australia-Indonesia Muslim Affiliation of ACT (AIMFACT).
Indonesian Ambassador Pramono stated that the embassy and AIMFACT labored intently to run such actions as iftar (breaking-the-fast) gatherings on the embassy each Saturday throughout Ramadan and the Eid night program.
He additionally reminded these attending the Eid occasion of the true which means of experiencing starvation and thirst throughout fasting, specifically making Muslims develop emotions of empathy for the much less lucky in Indonesia and elsewhere.
Due to this fact, Ambassador Pramono referred to as on members of the Indonesian diaspora in Australia to have fun Eid al-Fitr in a grateful method, Nasution knowledgeable.
“Mr. Ambassador additionally appeals to Indonesians to hope for his or her brothers and sisters in Palestine who stay below Israeli occupation whereas reiterating Indonesia’s help for the ‘two-state answer,'” he stated.
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