Shared meals and torch-lit parades: Indonesia Muslims welcome Ramadan

May 05, 2019 4:51 PM

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) – From cleaning up relatives’ graves and sharing food with the poor to holding colourful torch-lit street parades, millions of Indonesians are getting ready to welcome the holy month of Ramadan in the world’s populous Muslim-majority country.

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