In Pictures: More Muslims celebrate Eid
Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Adha, one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar, with full meat-based feasts.
Eid al-Adha, known as the Feast of Sacrifice, coincides with the final rites of the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia.
Many Southeast Asia nations, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore observed Eid al-Adha on Thursday, while Muslims in other parts of the globe, including in countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Afghanistan and Nigeria, celebrated the holiday on Wednesday.
On Thursday, worshippers shoulder-to-shoulder joined in communal prayers in the streets of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.
“Thank God, we can pray Eid al-Adha with our family and celebrate the festival without fears of the outbreak and pandemic,” said Neisya Fabiola, a Jakarta resident.
Eid al-Adha holiday in Indonesia is known for its lavish meat-based feasts, which are made with the meat from the sacrifice.
Huge crowds filled the yards of mosques to participate in ritual animal slaughter for the festival.
President Joko Widodo said the decision was geared toward spurring economic activities and tourism in the world’s largest archipelago nation.
Indonesia, like the rest of the world, is struggling to come out of an economic recession fuelled by the pandemic with the Ukraine war and soaring energy and food prices creating complications in the recovery.
Before he could carry out the sacrifice, God provided a ram as an offering.
In the Christian and Jewish telling, Abraham is ordered to kill another son, Isaac.
But the government has worked to overcome that outbreak.
Foot-and-mouth disease is an acute, highly contagious viral disease of cloven-footed animals that is sometimes transmitted to humans.
The disease returned to Indonesia last year, which had been outbreak-free for 32 years.
The trend of active cases was observed to have decreased with zero new cases in the recent weeks, with the remaining active cases of 4,682 as of Monday, out of a total of 630,706 cases largely on the most populated islands of Java and Sumatra, according to data from the National FMD Task Force.