PAPUA — In the 2022 Tebar Hewan Kurban (THK), Dompet Dhuafa distributes sacrificial animals and meat to Pikere District, East Arso District, Keerom Regency. This region is the easternmost region of Indonesia, bordering Papua New Guinea. This district has 50 Muslim families, some converts, and some immigrants from outside Papua.
At the time of its implementation, Sunday (10/7/2022), the Dompet Dhuafa distribution team, accompanied by local Islamic religious leaders, walked through houses in Pikere District, East Arso District.
One of the beneficiaries visited by her house was a convert, Ika, by name. She is a 30-year-old housewife. Ika lives in a small wooden house with her two young children. Meanwhile, at that time, the husband was migrating to make a living.
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“I was surprised how there were so many people there,” she told Dompet Dhuafa when visited by her house.
“Alhamdulillah, here is Dompet Dhuafa making sacrifices here. So people around here get the meat part,” replied Khairuddin, an Islamic religious leader in Pikere trying to be a communication liaison.
Since Allah tapped Ika’s faith to become a Muslim, she has participated in many Islamic religious worship activities. For eight years, the hijabi woman has felt the serenity of the various virtues of her worship. But there is a sense of worship that she has not felt since converting to Islam, namely sacrifice. In fact, sacrifice becomes worship with the celebration of meat feasts that should be felt by all Muslims in all parts of the world.
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According to Khairuddin, one cow from Dompet Dhuafa is a new thing for the Muslim community in Pikere. She said that someone sent sacrifices in Pikere about four years ago, but the distribution was not widely felt. At the same time, the people of Pikere Village have economic conditions unlike in other lucky areas.
“Thank you Dompet Dhuafa. Hopefully, we here can also participate in sacrificial services like other Muslim brothers, “said Ika. (Dompet Dhuafa/Muthohar)