TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - There is a popular saying that suggests you plan your trip early to optimize your vacation. We are currently nearing the end of 2017 with 2018 arriving less than a month.
A long weekend occurs when the national holiday falls on the day consecutively before or after Saturday and Sunday. There is also an unofficial long weekend that emerges from national holidays that wedges a regular working day where Indonesians dub as “Harpitnas” or days that are wedged between two holidays.
The following are the list of national holidays that create “long weekend holidays” in 2018:
1. Monday, January 1, 2018: New Year’s Day
2. Friday, February 16, 2018: Chinese New Year
3. Friday, March 30, 2018: International Good Friday, Catholic holiday
4. Friday, April 14, 2018: Isra Mi’raj (Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad)
5. Tuesday, May 1, 2018: Labor Day
6. Thursday, May 10, 2018: Easter
7. Tuesday, May 29, 2018: Waisak or Vesak Day
8. Friday, June 1, 2018: Pancasila day
9. Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, 2018: End of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr
10. Friday, August 17, 2018: Indonesian Independence Day
11. Tuesday, November 20, 2018: The Birth of Islamic Prophet Muhammad PBUH
12. Tuesday, December 25, 2018: Christmas Day
Tabloid Bintang
