✦ zenith calendar · the indonesia almanac
indonesia's national holidays, across its faiths and its civic days, in one quiet layer of your sky.
indonesia is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds indonesia's national holidays, the hari libur nasional, from the days of the country's faiths to its civic days, and on a phone set to indonesia it starts lit.
the dates are the ones the government publishes, not worked out on your phone. the islamic days are the government's dates, and its advance dates may move a day once the moon is sighted. tap a holiday and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian · civic days on fixed dates, with the days of each faith as the government dates them
tahun baru masehi
1 january
the first day of the common year. it belongs to no one faith: it is the day the whole country turns the page together.
the night before, cities and villages fill with fireworks and gatherings, and many families grill fish or corn together and wait for midnight. some muslims mark the turn instead with prayer in the mosque, and christians with a church service of thanks.
hari suci nyepi
the first day of the tenth month of the saka year
the hindu new year of the saka calendar: a whole day of silence, kept above all in bali, from six in the morning to six the next morning.
on the eve villages parade ogoh-ogoh, great demon figures, then burn them. on nyepi itself there is no fire or light, no work, no travel and no pleasure; the streets are empty and even the airport closes.
hari lahir pancasila
1 june
the birth of pancasila, the principles on which the indonesian state rests: belief in the one and only god, a just and civilised humanity, the unity of indonesia, democracy led by wisdom in deliberation and representation, and social justice for all the people of indonesia.
government offices, schools and communities hold flag ceremonies with pancasila read aloud, and people reflect on living its principles together across faiths and peoples.
proklamasi kemerdekaan
17 august
the anniversary of indonesia's declaration of independence, read by soekarno with mohammad hatta beside him on 17 august 1945.
the country is hung with red and white. flag ceremonies are held in every school, office and village, and afternoons are full of games: panjat pinang, the greased pole, sack races and krupuk-eating contests.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, indonesia puts its holidays on their days on that ring, in ice blue. its mark is its flag, 🇮🇩.
each of its holidays carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from (for a national day, as indonesia tells it), and how it is kept.
indonesia arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
tap its chip in the legend to eclipse it (kept, but not drawn) and tap again to bring it back. nothing is deleted either way.
indonesia shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
indonesia is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
indonesia is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
indonesia (country) ·
Nyepi, the Day of Silence, falls on Monday 8 March 2027. It is the Hindu new year of the Saka calendar, kept above all in Bali.
Pancasila Day, Hari Lahir Pancasila, is 1 June every year; in 2027 it falls on a Tuesday.
Indonesia's Independence Day is 17 August, a Tuesday in 2027, kept with flag ceremonies and afternoon games across the country.
The indonesia almanac carries Eid al-Fitr on 10 and 11 March 2027, the government's advance dates. They may move a day once the moon is sighted.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called indonesia: Indonesia's national holidays, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. On a phone set to Indonesia it starts lit, and turning it on costs nothing.
They are the national holidays as the government names and dates them, copied in rather than worked out on your phone. Good Friday, Easter and the Ascension follow a published Easter table.