Tri Indah Oktavianti and Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Mass prayers, big family gatherings and banquets fit for a king.

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Millions of Indonesians are celebrating the most festive time of the year in the country under partial lockdown.

Jakarta – COVID-19 patients at the Slamet Martodirjo regional hospital in Pamekasan, East Java, have demanded to be allowed to celebrate Idul Fitri at home with their families, with so

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Haeril Halim (AFP) – Indonesians are turning to smugglers and bogus travel documents to get around bans on an annual end-of-Ramadan exodus that could send coronavirus cases skyrocketin

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Jakartans disobey Covid-19 warnings and flock shopping centers around the city to get the Idul Fitri essentials – new clothes, new shoes, cookies, and sweets to c

Diana Mariska, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Senior government officials have gone on social media to plead to Indonesians to refrain from visiting their families and relatives d

Jakarta – Some regional leaders are set to allow residents to perform mass Idul Fitri prayers despite the central government's announcement that such gatherings were against prevailing

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – The East Java administration has revoked its permit that allowed Al Akbar Mosque in Surabaya to hold Idul Fitri mass prayers following criticism from experts wh

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Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and Muhammadiyah have advised Muslims in the country to avoid conducting Idul Fitri prayers in large congregations at mosque

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry has prepared two different scenarios for the 2020 hajj pilgrimage for Indonesian Muslims – many of whom have waited for years t

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The COVID-19 outbreak has reshaped the communal practice of Buddhism in Indonesia, as with other faiths, as worship moves online to comply with calls by authori

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – About a thousand men and women filled the iconic mosque Baiturrahman in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh amid the COVID-19 pandemic, performing evening

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The parking lot of a small shopping complex near my home was filled with dozens of cars parked in an unruly manner.

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented believers with a dilemma: either they choose to "lockdown" their prayers at home, or they view the pandemic as a challenge of their faith and, in re

A group of teenagers in Pulogadung, East Jakarta besieged the house of a resident who reported a neighborhood mosque for holding the Taraweeh congregational prayer on Saturday evening,

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Sausan Atika and Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Muslims worldwide began a month of fasting on Friday amid unprecedented social restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, the nation's largest Islamic organizations, have called on Indonesian Muslims to observe the fasting month of Ramadan at

Belseran Christ and Budi Sutrisno, Maluku – While the majority of Muslims in Indonesia are waiting for a formal government announcement on the start of Ramadan, some Muslims in Maluku

Jakarta – The Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) has announced that it will allow people to perform daily mass prayers and tarawih (Ramadan night prayers) during the upcoming holy month despite

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – There is no Easter like this year.

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry has urged Indonesian Muslims not to hold bukber, short for buka puasa bersama (breaking-of-the-fast gathering) activities dur

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – Hundreds of thousands of Muslims across East Java attended a Nisfu Syaban mass prayer on Wednesday through their smartphones and televisions, making the event o