EARLY SYAWAL

SEMARANG, 29/9 - SYAWAL OFFERS. Two officers observing the hilal (new rising months) by using the diopong, when doing the deterioration (activity of observing the hilal appearance), to determine the beginning of the Syawal 1429 Hijriah, from the Al Husna tower with a height of 95 meters, in the Supreme Mosque of Central Java, in Semarang, Monday (29/9). Rukyat involved a number of scholars, ITB Bandung’s academicians, astronomers and representatives of the Islamic ormas have not seen the determination of hilal, so to determine the beginning of Syawal 1429 Hijriah was submitted to the government through hisbat’s sword that will be led directly by the Minister of Religion. PHOTO ANTARA/R Rekotomo/Koz/nz/08.