School Children's Eid Holidays Extended to 19 Days

JAKARTA, KOMPAS - The government has extended the Eid al-Fitr 1446 Hijri holiday for school students or religious education units to a total of 19 days, from March 21 to April 8, 2025. Students will return to school on April 9, 2025.

The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Abdul Mu'ti, explained that the Eid holiday, originally scheduled to begin on March 26, 2025, has been moved forward to March 21, 2025. This change was made following a meeting with several relevant ministers responsible for managing the Eid homecoming traffic, taking into account that the holiday should ideally start seven days before Eid.

"This has already been agreed upon with the Minister of Home Affairs and also with the Minister of Religious Affairs. We are just waiting for the joint circular letter to be signed by the three Ministers," said Mu'ti in a press statement on Tuesday (4/3/2025).

Here is the revised learning schedule for Ramadan 2025:

• 27-28 Februari 2025 dan 3-5 Maret 2025: Belajar mandiri di lingkungan keluarga, tempat ibadah dan masyarakat
• 6-20 Maret 2025 dan 2-8 April 2025: Libur Idul Fitri 1446 Hijriah bagi sekolah dan madrasah satuan pendidikan keagamaan
• 9 April 2025: kembali belajar di sekolah.

During this Ramadan, Mu'ti encourages students to engage in intellectual worship by continuing to learn. This is because, in essence, seeking knowledge is a part of worship.

He hopes that the students will continue their learning activities even though they are not at school. Learning can be conducted in places of worship or through social activities within the community.

"Hopefully this spirit of learning can shape students into great human beings who carry out lifelong learning," he said.

Learning during the month of Ramadan is also expected to serve as a means for students to learn from the community environment and mass media. Through mass media, students can watch seven-minute lecture (kultum) broadcasts.

According to the Secretary of the Central Leadership of Muhammadiyah, fasting is closely related to the formation of human character. Through fasting, humans are shaped into beings with noble character. Superior human resources with exemplary character should be a noble value reflected in individuals within the field of education.

Indonesia Emas 2045 is the generation that the nation's founders aspired to. This ideal is stated in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution and Article 33 paragraph 1. In the fourth paragraph of the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, one of the goals of the founding of the Indonesian state is to educate the nation.

The bonding or connection between children and their parents and family can also become stronger,

Meanwhile, Article 33 paragraph 1 of the 1945 Constitution states that the Government shall endeavor to establish and organize a national education system that increases faith and piety as well as noble morals in order to enlighten the life of the nation, which is regulated by law.

Then, in relation to Law Number 20 of 2003 concerning the National Education System, the goal and function of education is to form faithful, pious, noble, intelligent, responsible citizens and the state as well as a democratic generation.

"The connection between the purpose of establishing a country and the purpose of education means that fasting is very closely related," said Mu'ti.

Therefore, the Golden Generation of 2045 is expected to be a generation with all-knowing humans. A pious generation because the key to human glory and national glory lies in the people of faith and knowledge.

Then the golden generation is a versatile and skilled generation, as well as humble, namely always creating welfare on earth, being on the right path, daring to say the truth, and having a simple attitude to life and liking to help others.

Separately, Professor of Sociology of Education at Airlangga University Tuti Budirahayu said, from the perspective of moral education, the longer Eid holiday is an opportunity for students to strengthen social and moral values. Acts of violence in educational units can also be suppressed.

However, this can have a good impact as long as the parental guidance is also good. If there is no guidance from parents, this policy can have a negative impact on the academic aspects of students because long holidays hinder the achievement of targets designed by educational institutions.

"Not only that, the bonding or ties between children and their parents and family can also become stronger," said Tuti.