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        "id": 1628651,
        "msgid": "the-comfort-of-eid-without-firecrackers-and-fireworks-1774104644",
        "date": "2026-03-21 21:02:10",
        "title": "The Comfort of Eid without Firecrackers and Fireworks",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "In Indonesia, the tradition of lighting firecrackers and fireworks during Eid al-Fitr celebrations, often seen as an assimilation of Chinese culture, persists despite causing noise disturbances, injuries, and fatalities, particularly among home producers. Police have banned their production and use to maintain public safety, while Islamic scholars have issued fatwas declaring them haram, yet many communities continue the practice, especially during takbiran nights and post-prayer festivities. This highlights the tension between cultural habits and official regulations aimed at reducing harm during the holiday.",
        "content": "<p>Bondowoso (ANTARA) - Eid al-Fitr in Indonesia, also known as Lebaran,\nis often accompanied by various local traditions, including the habit of\nlighting firecrackers or fireworks. Lighting firecrackers and fireworks\nis part of the local Lebaran tradition in Indonesia, although its\norigins are suspected to be an assimilation from Chinese community\nculture. The emergence of competition amid the festivity of Lebaran\nleads society to often compete in lighting firecrackers and fireworks\nwith high explosive power and louder sounds. Besides causing discomfort\ndue to deafening ears and startling those who hear them, the tradition\nof lighting firecrackers and fireworks not infrequently results in\nfatalities. In addition to consumers, namely the public using\nfirecracker and fireworks products, fatalities also often affect\nproducers, especially on a home-scale production. Several cases of\nfirecracker and fireworks production that cause loud explosions, leading\nto several houses being destroyed. These explosions often also injure\nfirecracker producers and the community around the production houses,\nnot infrequently causing fatalities. The police apparatus, which\nrepresents the presence of the state to maintain security and order in\nsociety, has issued a ban on the production and lighting of firecrackers\nand fireworks, especially ahead of and during Lebaran. Even the ulama,\nwho are tasked with safeguarding the morals of the Muslim community,\nhave issued a fatwa that lighting firecrackers or fireworks is haram,\nlet alone producing them. Nevertheless, society does not immediately\nabandon that dangerous tradition, namely lighting and making\nfirecrackers or fireworks. The Muslim community does not respond to the\npolice ban and the ulama\u2019s fatwa in the same way as they do to laws on\ntheft, alcoholic beverages, and others. The sound of firecrackers on\ntakbiran nights and on the day itself, namely after the Eid prayer, does\nnot entirely disappear from the reality of Lebaran celebrations in our\nsociety.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/the-comfort-of-eid-without-firecrackers-and-fireworks-1774104644",
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