KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH DALAM PENETAPAN AWAL BULAN KAMARIAH DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Governmental Policy in Deducing Early Islamic Calendar in Indonesia. There is different argumentation
among Muslim scholars to determine early Islamic Calendar. Part of them argued that we should put it
considerably based on the result of seeing moon (ru’yatul hilâl) and the others used hisab method. This can be
understood that despite the government of Indonesia has tried to unity the difference, in fact, there has not been
equal result recently. No wonder that although the government follows imkân ar-ru’yah with criterion indicator
238, it puts to the decision of seeing moon (result of ru’yah). Besides, the result should be on the government’s
decision. The criteria of moon visibility done by the government were lower than the criteria considered by the
astronomical experts, so that the result was not realistic and relevant to the scientific observation occurred in
the field. The consideration made Muhammadiyah, as the most familiar Islamic organization in Indonesia, had
not received that criteria.