Friday, August 21, 2009

MUSLIM AUSTRALIA MULAI BERPUASA SABTU

Ratusan ribu Muslim di Australia memulai ibadah Puasa Ramadan mereka, Sabtu (22/8), menyusul terlihatnya hilal (bulan baru) di wilayah negara benua itu Jumat.

Organisasi Komunitas Muslim di negara bagian Queensland, "Queensland Muslims", Jumat, memberikan kepastian awal Ramadan dengan mengirimkan layanan pesan singkat (SMS) ke telepon selular warga Muslim.

Dengan ditetapkannya Sabtu sebagai hari pertama puasa, komunitas Muslim di Brisbane dan sekitarnya mulai menggelar salat tarawih berjamaah di sejumlah masjid Jumat malam.

Untuk menyemarakkan kegiatan Ramadan, Queensland Muslims tidak hanya memberikan layanan SMS tentang hasil rukyat kepada umat Islam, termasuk Muslim Indonesia, tetapi juga menggelar acara kuis Ramadan.

Di seluruh Australia, terdapat lebih dari 340 ribu orang Islam. Mereka berasal dari beragam bangsa.

*) My news for ANTARA on Aug 21, 2009

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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