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        "msgid": "ramadhan-may-start-differently-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-11-10 00:00:00",
        "title": "Ramadhan may start differently",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Ramadhan may start differently SURABAYA: Muslims may not begin the holy fasting month of Ramadhan on the same day this month as Indonesia's largest Islamic organizations will likely set different dates. Leaders of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the nation's biggest Muslim group, said in East Java on Thursday that Ramadhan will likely start on Nov. 17, while Muhammadiyah, the second largest Muslim group, will start the holy month one day earlier, referring to the general calender.",
        "content": "<p>Ramadhan may start differently<\/p>\n<p>SURABAYA: Muslims may not begin the holy fasting month of<br>\nRamadhan on the same day this month as Indonesia's largest<br>\nIslamic organizations will likely set different dates.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the nation's biggest<br>\nMuslim group, said in East Java on Thursday that Ramadhan will<br>\nlikely start on Nov. 17, while Muhammadiyah, the second largest<br>\nMuslim group, will start the holy month one day earlier,<br>\nreferring to the general calender.<\/p>\n<p>The difference takes place due to the two groups' distinctive<br>\ntraditional ways of determining the date of Ramadhan. NU uses<br>\nrukyah (determination by sighting of the moon), while<br>\nMuhammadiyah uses hisab (determination by calender calculation).<\/p>\n<p>The NU's East Java chapter recently issued a special calender,<br>\nsetting the start of Ramadhan on Nov. 17. It said the moon would<br>\nnot appear on Nov. 15, so the Islamic month of Sya'ban would end<br>\non Nov. 16, a day after which, it added, Ramadhan must begin.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sholeh Hayat, a NU leader who is also a member of the<br>\ngroup's rukyah team in East Java, said it would conduct rukyah on<br>\nthe evening of Nov. 15 at beaches across the country to determine<br>\nwhether the moon appeared or not on that day.<\/p>\n<p>\"If the moon can been seen with naked eyes on Nov. 15, we will<br>\nbegin fasting a day after that day. If not, we will complete<br>\nSya'ban into 30 days and we will start Ramadhan on Nov. 17,\" he<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the consultative council of Muhammadiyah in East<br>\nJava said Ramadhan begins on Nov. 16. It argued that based on<br>\nhisab conducted by its team, the moon will have to appear at<br>\n01:41 p.m. on that day.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every year in recent times, NU and Muhammadiyah members<br>\nbegan Ramadhan or celebrated Idul Fitri, the post-fasting month<br>\nfestivities, on different days. However, such a difference was<br>\ndubbed as normal by Muslims. --JP<\/p>",
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