Eid Al-Fitr 2023 Celebration In Indonesia Is Not Simultaneous, This Is LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti's Opinion

Chairman of the DPD RI, LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti. (Special)

JAKARTA - The potential for day differences on 1 Syawal 1444 Hijriyah is a natural thing, due to differences in the method of determination, between reckoning and rukyatul hilal among Islamic organizations in Indonesia.

For this reason, the Chairman of the DPD RI AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti asked the government to be in the position of guarantor of facilities and certainty of worship. Because it is a mandate of the Constitution.

"This country is a country based on God, where Article 29 Paragraph 2 of the Constitution reads very clearly; The state guarantees the independence of each resident to embrace their respective religions and worship according to their religion and beliefs," he said Thursday (20/4/2023).

Still according to LaNyalla, the state position is that the guarantor of the people carry out their worship according to their religion, including in the choice of the method of determining 1 Syawal. So the state or in this case, the government should not be in a single determinant authority position. Because the government is also not an institution that gives religious fatwas.

"So far, it seems as if the government has taken the determining position of 1 Shawwal through an isbat trial. Do not let this make the government violate Article 29 Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, especially until there are restrictions and so on on on access to certain facilities," said the senator from the East Java electoral district.

LaNyalla also appreciates the aspirations of the people who asked for the government's trial to be abolished, because the determination of the 1st day of Syawal has been taken through two methods agreed fiqh by Islamic organizations in Indonesia, namely the rukyatul hilal and reckoning methods.

"These aspirations must also be heard by the government, so that there is no duplication of roles, and the government position is also not impressed as the sole determinant authority for the fall of 1 Syawal," concluded LaNyalla.