Breaking fast where and with whom you are today? Whether with friends, family, or forced to break the fast amid the congestion capital of which can no longer be tolerated? Indonesia has the habits of people gather with family or relatives, and in the month of Ramadan is used to gather at iftar together. The place also depends on the agreement, could be in a mall, home, or renting a place in particular that have been ordered from far-away days earlier. In Indonesia, the tradition of fasting together has become a regular agenda in the month of Ramadan. This moment is often used as a meeting arena for those who miss the old are not met. With a variety of purposes and benefits, fasting together still do the people of Indonesia.
Break the fast in addition to the family is now very commonly held by relatives or fellow soldier office or school campus as a routine event. Some offices in Jakarta held a fast breaking with employees every week. For events in offices are generally closed only for employees who normally informed by SMS Blast directly to mobile phones registered employees and through email so no one missed the info. Some agencies even invited religious figures helped to give a little speech before the fast breaking or before prayer of taraweh. The purpose of a fast breaking like this is to increase faith and pieties are also strengthening internal unity between its members. Breaking fast type is also often held by society or community or alumni of an institution. For example, forum of SMAN 6 Bekasi graduates organize breaking the fast together in order to strengthen the kinship that has not been met due to busyness of each member. They held a breaking the fast together in schools with the aim that feels more like the old school days. Open the event with a core committee to send a SMS broadcast surveys in advance to find out who can attend or not.
Other groups are organizing breaking the fast together with the purpose of familiarity rather than internal members, but has a purpose to other people who need more, namely the poor and those who are on their way. Iftar with the orphans and orphans are often held by several institutions or set a specific community. There is also an intentionally collect friends from the community such as the forums are concerned with community college students who stuck in traffic on the road and then share the food and drinks to break their fast. Usually they give the food-done 15 minutes before sunset around the traffic light and refueling. The nature of this event is open along with compensation.
At a fast breaking together not only citizens of Indonesia have become a tradition, like the Muslims in Morocco which held a joint breaking the fast in three stages. First is after the sunset prayer. Second is after evening prayers. Third is after praying taraweh. Everything is done inside the home with family.