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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Indonesia

The list of Indonesia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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05 Dec 2008 (The Jakarta Post-Jakarta) Following a meeting of representatives from Indonesian Islamic organizations and the Religious Affairs Ministry, in Jakarta, the ministry director of Islamic affairs, Muchtar Iljas, confirmed that Muslims in Indonesia will celebrate the Islamic Day of Sacrifice, or Idul Adha, on Monday, December 8, 2008. • 27 Sep 2008 (Bank Sentral Republik Indonesia) The Central Bank of Indonesia has announced that the 2 public holidays previously announced for Monday, September 29, 2008, and Friday, December 26, 2008, will revert to being normal working days. • 06 Jul 2008 (Office of the Governor of Bali) Bali's Governor Dewa Beratha has issued a decree formally declaring Wednesday, July 9, 2008, as a holiday in connection with the island-wide election of Bali's next governor. • 10 Jun 2008 (The Jakarta Post) The coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare, Aburizal Bakrie, announced the 2009 public holidays joint decree, signed by the coordinating minister for people's welfare, the state minister for administrative reforms, the religious affairs minister and the manpower and transmigration minister. • 05 Feb 2008 (The Jakarta Post) The Government announced that it was canceling 3 of the 2008 bridge public holidays that it had decreed in May of last year. The joint-decree cancels the Shared Holiday by Government Decree for an Extended Weekend of February 8 (three days only from today), May 2, and May 19, 2008. • 12 Oct 2007 (The Jakarta Post) Din Syamsuddin, the Chairman of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Indonesian Muslim organization, said that its organization be observing Idul Fitri on Friday, October 12, while most Muslims, including Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Islamic organization in the country, will follow the government's chosen date and will celebrate Idul Fitri on Saturday, October 13. • 16 Jun 2007 (The Jakarta Post) The Jakarta administration will declare Wednesday, august 8, 2007, a public holiday in the municipal area of Jakarta, in order to encourage Jakartans to vote in city's first ever direct gubernatorial election. • 31 May 2007 (The Jakarta Post) The Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare, Aburizal Bakrie, announced the national holidays and joint leave days for 2008. The 2008 decree on holidays and joint leave stipulates those religious holidays that cannot be moved, 14 national holidays and six days of joint leave. • 27 Dec 2006 The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) has announced that December 29, 2006 (Friday) will be a stock exchange holiday in Indonesia. • 24 Oct 2006 The government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, declared Aidilfitri to fall today after no sightings were made of the new moon at stations dotted across the archipelago. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Indonesia public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Indonesia are announced in the summer of every year, for the following year, by a Joint Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, and the State Minister for Enhancement of Efficiency of State Apparatuses, such as the recent No. 407/2005, No. KEP.185/MEN/VII/2005; No. SKB/02/M.PAN/7/2005 On Holidays and Collective Leave in 2006, and the National Holidays and Collective Leave in 2008 (No. 55/2007, No. KEP.222/MEN/V/2007 and No. SKB/03/M.PAN/5/2007. • Weekend Public Holidays: Public holidays that occur on a weekend remain on that date (ie. they are not moved to another date, such as the following Monday, for example). • Bridge Holidays: the government will regularly declare bridge holidays that extend from public holidays that fall on a Tuesday or Thursday to the nearest weekend. These bridge holidays are called Shared Holiday by Government Decree for an Extended Weekend, or cuti bersama. • Chinese New Year: Until 1999, the celebration of Chinese New Year in public spaces was not permitted, and it has only been a national public holiday since 2003, following President, Megawati Sukarnoputri's announcement in February 2002. • Eid al Fitr is an official national public holiday for only the first two days. Banks close for the entire week. Many businesses close for at least the entire week, if not two. The days off can be leading up to, after, or a combination of both, depending on which day of the week Shawwal 1 is. This is the time of year when just about everyone travels back home. • Nyepi (the Balinese equivalent of the word for silence) is a national public holiday, but it is particularly strictly observed in the Island of Bali where the Balinese celebrate Nyepi as a day of absolute silence and meditation, which includes the shut down of the island's airport, for a 24 hour period. Most major hotels permit guests full use of hotel grounds and outlets with a tacit understanding that guests should not venture outside the property's bounds. • Ethnic Javanese make up roughly about 40 percent of the Indonesian population of 220 million people. The Javanese Calendar coincides with the Islamic year. New year's day in Javanese culture is marked with the cleansing of the spirit and starting of the coming year with fresh attitude and hope . • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Bank Indonesia (Indonesia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Indonesia, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world. Aft=Afternoon, Arm=Armenian, Bah=Bahai, Bnk=Banks and most financial institutions, Bud=Buddhist, Cat=Catholic, Chr=Christian, Cop=Coptic, Eve=Evening, Gov=Government services and civil servants, Hin=Hindu, Jew=Jewish, Lin=Linguistic or ethnic groups, Mor=Morning, Mun=Municipal, Mus=Muslim, Orth=Orthodox, Othr=Miscellaneous partial observances (usually described in the Additional Information section of this page), Prt=Protestant, Reg=Regional, Rel=Other Religion, Sch=Schools and universities, Sik=Sikh.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Indonesia that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays, for Indonesia, were calculated using the MABIMS (Menteri Agama Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, dan Singapura) lunar visibility criteria. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Hindu Holidays : For Indonesia, when calculating the date of bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays based on the Hindu Lunar calendar, if the date is expunged (ie. does not occur), then we use the following existing date of the Hindu Lunar calendar. Local practice concerning expunged days may vary regionally. For more details on the evaluation of Hindu holidays, see Hindu Calendar holidays.

Lunisolar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict lunar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Indonesia are based on the geographical location of Jakarta (latitude 6,1°S, longitude 106,8°E, GMT+7,0 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2009 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Indonesia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Indonesia, before planning any trip to Indonesia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.