Public holidays in Indonesia, 2019

How Indonesia public holidays work in 2019

Indonesia's public holidays are set jointly each year by the Ministers of Manpower, Religion and State Apparatus Reform under a Surat Keputusan Bersama (SKB) gazette. The list runs to about sixteen statutory holidays plus a varying number of cuti bersama (joint leave) days that extend major observances. The standing core includes New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, Bali's Nyepi Day of Silence, Good Friday, Vesak (Waisak), Pancasila Day on 1 June, Independence Day on 17 August, Christmas Day, plus the Islamic Isra Mi'raj, Eid al-Fitr (two days, called Idul Fitri or Lebaran), Eid al-Adha (Idul Adha) and the Islamic New Year (1 Muharram) and Prophet's birthday (Maulid).

Working days in Indonesia

Indonesia's Manpower Law 13 of 2003 articles 77 and 79 set a 40-hour standard week over either five days (Monday to Friday at 8 hours) or six days (Monday to Saturday at 7 hours). The standard private-sector office and banking week is Monday to Friday with Sunday as the statutory rest day. The Civil Procedure Code (HIR/RBg) and Law 30 of 1999 on arbitration roll procedural deadlines falling on a Sunday or public holiday to the next working day. Settlement of rupiah transactions runs on Bank Indonesia's BI-RTGS and BI-Fast systems, which observe the SKB-gazetted holiday list including cuti bersama days.