Valentine’s day By, Ratna Budiarti 033558

Valentine’s Day is a holiday on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other  (Christian exactly) by sending Valentine’s cards, donating to charity or gifting candy. It is very common to present flowers on Valentine’s Day.  Valentine’s day is exist to celebrate our love to other (boy/girl friend, parents, friend and others). But, most Moslem in the world do not celebrate this day. Because they know that valentine is celebrated for Christian only.Valentine’s day is characterized with pink, gift (flowers, chocolate, and many other things that support love.   

EIDUL FITRI IN INDONESIA(NINA ROSDIANA 043444)

Eidul fitri is a Moslem celebration as a symbol of victory after a whole month fasting in Ramadhan month struggle to control their carnal desire. It is celebrated by all Moslem community around the world included Moslem in Indonesia. In Indonesia Eidul Fitri also well-known as Lebaran.

            Lebaran or Eidul fitri is celebrated on the first day of Syawal month. The main activity of Eidul fitri is shalat Eidul fitri conducted early in the morning (about 06.30 or 07.00) on the first day of Shawal. Before doing Shalat Eidul fitri, it always begin by takbiran or reverberate all good names of Allah such as Takbir and Tahlil in the night before that. After conducting  shalat Eidul fitri, Indonesian Moslem always doing Sungkeman or asking for forgiveness from people around them such as parents, children, grandparents, relatives, friend and neighbors.

            Other special things from Lebaran are its cuisines, new clothes and angpau. Special cuisines of Lebaran are Ketupat and opor ayam. Ketupat is special food made from rice covered by special leaves and opor ayam is a kind of soup made from chicken, milk squeezing from coconut, and other various spices. Another special thing from lebaran is angpau. Angpau is money given by parents, grandparents or relatives to their younger member of family. One last special thing from lebaran is new clothes, Indonesian people consider new clothes as symbol of “new spirit”. Lebaran is a reborn of Moslem into a new condition. So, new clothes here represent a new holy spirit of Moslem.

 

created by NINA ROSDIANA (043444)

kartini day

NILA TIFANI

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Writing for General Communication

 Kartini DayKartini day are commemorated on 21st April by Indonesian people. If the day has come, some school especially kindergarten students are always celebrated it by wearing Kebaya as the Indonesian women traditional clothe. They wear Not only kebaya but also any kind of traditional clothes from many area in Indonesia and the uniforms of some job like police, doctor, pilot, army and etc. This day is the born of our women national heroin named Kartini. Some years ago, there was a woman named Kartini. Kartini was unsatisfied with the Indonesian women condition who was always threatened different with men. They often experienced some discrimination in some field. They didn’t have change enjoying study even in secondary school moreover to take the higher education, it was so impossible for them. The basic of the problem was point of view people in that era. They thought that something useful sent their daughter to school because the ending was they would escape in kitchen and many kind of housework like cooking, cleaning house, and nurturing children. So many parents didn’t send their daughter to school. However kartini didn’t think so. According to her, a woman is the main role in nurturing children so the smarter women, the better human resource they produced. Now we can see the result of kartini’s struggling, women can enjoy study as higher as they want so almost in many institutions women are exist even they become the head of the institution.

mother’s day

Wiliyanti 033087 Mother’s Day Who do not know what mother’s day is? Mother’s day is commemorated on the 22nd in every December. It is celebrated by all of mothers in Indonesia, by means that we have to respect our mother for her struggle in taking care of us since we are child until now. Mother is someone who always guiding and loving her children without asking back for the recompense. What should we do in mother’s day? Anything we can do for her. For example, in that special day, we cooke some special foods for mother or we can give her a handicraft gift made by ourselves. Whatever that we do for our beloved mother she will appreciate and accept it proudly. Actually, giving respect for her is not only could be done in certain occasion, but also in anytime and anywhere, we should always love her.  From the description above, we can conclude that mother’s day is one symbol of love and respect to someone who called a ‘Mother’.

Eid Adh:Sacrifice for the Sake of God’s love(Tini Suhartini- 045964)

Eid Adh : Sacrifice for the Sake of God’s Love 

Eid Adh is a kind of Islamic Celebration. Celebrated on every 10^th Dzulhijah, the twelveth month of Hijri Calendar. It is a time for Moslems around the world to show their grateful to God for the gifts by sacrificing things that they love most (i.e. wealth) represented by slaughter animals like camel, cow, goat or sheep. The feast is popularly known as “Sacrifice feast day”. For ones who are not rich families, they have no responsibility conduct sacrifice, instead, they can do charity base on their capability.

In Indonesia the feast is well – known as “Satay meat Party”. Many people from high – status until the lowest one can taste the delicious of “Sacrifice Satay.” The time for conducting slaughter is not only on 10^th dzulhijah but also on 11^th, 12^th, and 13^th dzulhijah. The dates are called”Tasyrik days”, the days where it is forbidden to do fasting.

The first time the chore was commanded by God in Prophet Abraham period. Abraham was an old man who dreams about a child. He often prayed to God in order to be given a pious child to continue His generation. His pray was answered; God gave Abraham a pious child named Ishmael. The hardest thing came to Abraham, to examine his faith, God commanded him to slaughter Ishmael. At that time Ishmael was a young boy. His dad, Abraham dreamt several times that he slaughter his son. When Abraham talked over about his dream to Ishmael, he said that if the dream was truly from God, he would be sincerely doing it. In short, while Abraham was conducting slaughter toward his son, suddenly God exchanged Ishmael with a big goat. As a result, this responsibility must be continued by Moslems in everywhere include in Indonesia to prove their belief and their love to their God.

 

My Favorite Celebration(vista mesa lopa-0704580)

I think  that lebaran is the  most beautiful day to celebrate,the biggest and the most popular celebration day,because we meet lebaran after we past the fasting month.i feel very happy when lebaran’s day come.because we can meet all of our family,although we never meet each other in the other day.we usually have eid pray,we have “takbiran”,then we eat “ketupat and opor ayam” together.everybody feel happy in this moment.lebaran’s day is a day where we should have to forgive each other.a night before lebaran we have to pay “zakat fitrah”.we share our thing to the other,to another who doesn’t have anything.when lebaran’s day come we come back to our holly like a baby,all of our mistakes will forgiven by our God and we’ll be pure people.

Eid ul-Fitr and Its Traditions (Uswatun Khasanah-0706360)

Eid ul-fitr or lebaran day comes from two words. They are “ied that means return and “fitr” that means holly, both holly from sins and mistakes. It is celebrated at 1 syawal of moslem calendar every year. It is based on the moon rotation. So, our moslems always call it as fasting month because before coming to this day, we have to do fasting for thirty days in a month. We have to keep ourself away from bad behavior. We are prohibited to eat and drink in the fasting month. When we come to eid ul-fitr day, we are like babies who are newly born who have no any mistakes and sins and we come as the winner in this day because we have been able to keep our fasting from prohibited things. For instance, eating, drinking, gosipping, behaving badly, etc.

I think eid ul-fitr is the biggest celebration of moslem culture, especially in Indonesia. Because in this day, I can gather with all of my family who are far away from me. And, there are many traditions in welcoming eid ul-fitr day. Such as, several days before coming to eid ul-fitr day, I and my mother always make cakes. We also always make “ketupat and opor ayam” which are well known as the special food in eid ul-fitr. Commonly, eid ul-fitr is familiar with new clothes and new accessories. A lot of Markets and the departement stores are crowded of buyer that buy many things which are needed in eid ul-fitr day such as daily needs and clothes. In the eid ul-fitr day, I and my family always take eid ul-fitr prayer in a vast field in front of mosque. After that, we visit home by home to apologize each other. And the other traditions in this day are eating “ketupat and opor ayam” together and going to the grave yard to pray for members of our family who have passed away.

Eid ul-Fitr (Een Erlinah-0704603)

Do you know what eid ul-fitr day’s is?

Eid ul fitr’s day is a special day for moslem in the world after we had fasted for a month,it is celebrated on the first day the month of syawal.

How do they celebrate it?

Generally,moslem in the world celebrate with praying together in the mosque.Especially moslem in indonesia after we had prayed together we shake a hand to forgive each other mainly our parents and all our family,visit our neighbour and we ate our favorite food  “ketupat,opor ayam and sambal ati” together with all our family.beside that many people send greeting cards called eid ul-fitr to our far friends and our far family members.

i think eid ul-fitr’s day is only one moment to gather with family and come back to be holly.

Christmas’ Day (Elpi_0706342)

Christmas’ day is celebrated with a lot of happiness and joyfull. Celebrated on December twenty five very year. Every christmas’ day my family and me set a christmas tree or it is often called light tree. Every christmas night we pray together and thanks to God for everything. And in tomorrow morning my family and i go to the church. Before celebrating christmas we take a pray first and after that, we celebrate Christmas’ day with praise and worship. The parish presented a drama performance, vocal group, dance performance from the children, we also sing for God. All along the Christmas celebration we enjoy and full of state of being glade

Traditions in Indonesia Independence Day (Mira Rahmani-044288)

Traditions in Indonesia Independence Day             Indonesia Independence Day is held on every August 17^th. It is the biggest event in Indonesia because it is celebrated by Indonesians everywhere with many kinds of tradition. The government celebrates it by doing a national ceremony in National Palace. There are also ceremonies in some institutions like schools, colleges, and offices. The ceremony includes reading of Teks Proklamasi to appreciate the heroes.            Beside ceremony, there are also some traditions that usually occur in Indonesia Independence Day like decorate surroundings environment, clean house competition, cooking competition, panjat pinang and kinds of game for children. The common games for children that usually occur are balap kerupuk, balap karung and balap kelereng. The most interesting competition is usually Panjat Pinang for adults because there are a lot of prizes to be reached. Although it is hard to get the prizes, numbers of people always join in this competition. These kinds of tradition are belief as a right time to make all Indonesian be united. That’s why it is important for Indonesians to keep the traditions by holding it every year, at least, to make Indonesian realize that although they have differences but they have the same purpose to make Indonesia peace.