Eid al-Adha (the Republic of
Indonesia, Hari Raya Haji, Arabic: عيد الأضحى) is an Islamic holiday. At today's event commemorated the
sacrifice, that is when the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), who are willing
to sacrifice his son Ishmael to God, to sacrifice his son Ismail, later
replaced by him with the sheep.On
this holiday, Muslims gathered in the morning and perform the Eid
prayers together in the field, such as when to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. After the prayer, carried out the
slaughter of sacrificial animals, to commemorate God's command to
Prophet Ibrahim who slaughtered sheep in lieu of his son.
1. Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the
world. Consists of 17,504 islands (including 9634 islands yet to
be named and 6,000 uninhabited islands).
2.
Here are
three of the six largest island in the world, namely: Borneo (the third
largest island in the world wide with 539 460 km²), Sumatra (473,606
km²) and Papua (421,981 km²) 3. Indonesia is the largest
maritime country in the world with waters covering an area of 93
thousand km² and the length of the beach about 81 thousand km², or
almost 25% of the length of the beach in the world. 4. Java
Island is the most populous island in the world where about 60% is
almost the population of Indonesia (about 130 jt people) live on the
island which covers only 7% of the entire territory of Indonesia.
5. Indonesia is a country with the
largest tribes in the world. There are
more than 740 tribes / ethnic groups, where in Papua alone there were
270 tribes.
6. Countries with the
largest regional languages, namely, 583 languages and dialects of the
67 main languages used by various tribes in Indonesia. National
language is Indonesian, although local languages with the largest
number of users in Indonesia is the Javanese language.
7. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the
world. Number of
followers of Islam in Indonesia about 216 million people or 88% of the
population of Indonesia. Also has the
largest number of mosques and the State of origin of the world's
greatest pilgrim.
