RUKYAT

SEMARANG, 11/9 - RUKYAT. A officer observes the hilal (new rising months) by using a 400-time enlargement binocular, when doing the deterioration (activity of observing the hilal appearance), to determine the beginning of fasting, in the Central Java Supreme Mosque, in Semarang, Tuesday (11/9). Rukyat involved a number of scholars, academics and astronomers have not seen the hilal cultivation, so as to determine the beginning of fasting is submitted to the government. PHOTO ANTARA/R Rekotomo/mes/07