Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
INDONESIA

Date 2008

Occasion

January 1 New Year's Day  
February 7 Chinese New Year#
January 10 Islamic New Year*
March 20 Prophet's Birthday*
March 21 Good Friday
April 21 Kartini Day
May 1 Ascension
July 23 National Children's Day
July 31 Ascension of Mohammed
August 17 Indonesian Independence Day
October 1 Eid Al Fitr*
December 8 Eid Al Adha*
December 25 Christmas Day  
*Muslim

**Hindu and Buddhist

# Chinese New Year is not a bank holiday. Chinese community shops close on this date for 1 or 2 days.
Holidays occurring on a weekend are not moved.

Weekend - Saturday, Sunday