This study aims to reexamine the Javanese Muslim death ritual tradition and offers a new interpretation. Despite growing Islamization, in which this ritual is often renamed as tahlilan, elements of local beliefs in it remain.

Slametan, referring to a broad communal prayer, feast, and food-offering to commemorate or celebrate critical live cycles, such as birth, marriage, and death, constitutes an essential ritual for Javanese Muslims. Keywords: Celebrate, Independence Day, Malam Tirakatan, Acculturation. From this research known that Indonesian Moslems reinforce their nationality by their religious local tradition. The location of this research is focused on two different places, first in Dukuh the village of Bantul district and second in Ngaseman village, a part of village of Kulon Progo district. I use the method of triangulation for collect data which are participant observation, deep interview and documentation. This paper describe about malam tirakatan as an acculturation between religious local traditions with a sense of nationalism. Malam tirakatan is kind of acculturation from Moslem local tradition. One form of celebration in Indonesia to celebrate the independence day is called “malam tirakatan” or “malam pitulasan”, especially in the area of Yogyakarta. Somehow in non-formal, citizen commemorate this day by various manner such as panjat pinang contest etc. Formally, the goverment of Indonesia from local level to the centre celebrate this day by flag ceremony on the seventeent of August. The celebration is an annual event organized by goverment and citizen, both formal and informal. In many places freedom is celebrated, including in Indonesia. Abstract Celebrating of Independence Day became a part of symbol of honour from the citizenship for their country.

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