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Ramadhan is here once again. It's normally a time for vast swathes of the population to make epic treks across the country to attend family meet ups. This year, all domestic flights have been cancelled until after Idul Fitri.

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@fmf said
Ramadhan is here once again. It's normally a time for vast swathes of the population to make epic treks across the country to attend family meet ups. This year, all domestic flights have been cancelled until after Idul Fitri.
We've a Muslim friend in Jogja (her name's Tini if you ever come across her...!) who explained that if you can't always go the whole twelve hours or so without water you can have a drink and owe it a day, and do it later. A typical example I would say of Indonesian pragmatism and 'soft' religious belief. As an aside, if one was looking to cite an example of how religions can live together in harmony, one could do worse than Indonesia, don't you think?

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@indonesia-phil said
As an aside, if one was looking to cite an example of how religions can live together in harmony, one could do worse than Indonesia, don't you think?
It provides a model. The 1945 constitution guarantees religious pluralism and freedom [to a degree] and while the Islamic identity politics of the last 20 years, which for three decades had Soeharto's boot on its neck, is presenting hazards and challenges, yes, plenty of places around the world DO do worse than Indonesia in this matter, I agree.

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I hope you both and yours and the people of our planet get through this okay.

Traditions and fictions can be destructive riders. And one must also consider walking brainstems and other proud, witless, and determined spreaders.

What ever happened to reasonableness and systems thinking?

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So is Ramadhan yet?

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@whodey said
So is Ramadhan yet?
I think this is the last week of it, with Eid al-Fitr celebrated on Sunday the 24th.

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@whodey said
So is Ramadhan yet?
A little research is invaluable in teaching one something they did not know before. The lazy just "ask somebody".

You have the entire internet literally at your fingertips, yet you prefer to believe anything you're told.

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@fmf said
Ramadhan is here once again. It's normally a time for vast swathes of the population to make epic treks across the country to attend family meet ups. This year, all domestic flights have been cancelled until after Idul Fitri.
Turkey is doing something similar, with a nationwide lockdown the 23rd through 26th.

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@suzianne said
A little research is invaluable in teaching one something they did not know before. The lazy just "ask somebody".

You have the entire internet literally at your fingertips, yet you prefer to believe anything you're told.
I think whodey's post was intended as a "humorous" pun.

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@fmf said
I think whodey's post was intended as a "humorous" pun.
Humor is wasted on the humorless

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Today is the celebration of Idul Fitri here in Indonesia ~ at least for most Muslims, those who are members of the larger of the two main organizations, N.U. [Nahdlatul 'Ulama] ~ while members of the smaller, and yet similarly massive, Muhammadiyah organization celebrated it by breaking their fast yesterday evening (Saturday). Almost everything is closed ~ even the convenience store in the Catholic hospital ~ but a lot of places may open later in the day, the lockdown protocols permitting.