LEBARAN DAY (IDUL FITRI)
Lebaran day is the day for the winner who finished 30 days fasting. It is the most important day for the muslims , because lebaran day is the victory day, joyous moment, and forgive all of our mistake. So every muslim have to celebrate this special day. On this day Muslims celebrate the joyous moment of their return to purity (the literal meaning of the Idul Fitri). This is not something that should be understood only in a symbolic sense, but to some extent it also appears to have physical manifestation during the time of lebaran.
This year Idul fitri falls on the first day of October. In the morning at first Syawal month all of muslims started to celebrate the lebaran day. At 06.15 am (local time) We prayed to God in “ sholat sunnah 2 rakaats”. We prayed in a large field and wear the new clothes. Men, women, adult, and the chhildren join with that activity enthusiasly. The Chief of Religion department become “imam “ (the leader of sholat) in this moment. Besides prayed to God the “Imam” gave us sermon about 30 minutes. And the theme was “how to make our life easy and peace to get the heaven”. It was very interesting for us because, every muslim want to be good human.
After all activity on the field finished, we moved to our home. We forgive each other, it started from wife to her husband and then the children to the parent. Next, we moved to mosque to “halal bihalal” with our neihgbor. Thereafter, our family went to grandparents house. In this place we met all of families ; uncles, aunts, cousins, niece, and etc. We share each other about jobs, experience, talk about our children, school, and etc. We apologized each other and finally we didn’t have sin.
Indonesia have unique tradition to celebrate the lebaran day, for example almost all of the muslims “mudik” to their home town. Every person want went to their home town to met their families, friends, close relatives, etc. Eventhough they just have limit time to invite their families (because of their job), and in this day very difficult to got the ticket. And the other tradition are about special menu of food, the Indonesian people always make “opor ayam and ketupat” in lebaran day. It’s very popular in our country. Besides that member of the family wear the new clothes and the children receive a lot of money from their parents, grand parents, uncle and other close relatives.
Lebaran is the interesting day for the muslims and every year they always mudik to meet their families. Therefore to support that activity, the government have to prepare all of facilities. For example, the roads and railways have to in good condition, the vehicles ( trains, buses,ships, airplanes) must be in perfect condition and then the Police Department separate their member to help the citizen and control the traffic. All in all this method can reduce the incident and accident on the highway gradually. So the user of road will be pleasure and safe on their journey.
