HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
Minal aidin Wal faidzin!
A lot of our foreign readers may not realize this but today is Eid al-Fitr (spelling varies) the biggest holiday of the year for most Indonesians. It marks the end of a month of daytime fasting, and today's the day when people go pay their respects to relatives, friends and colleagues, which tends to involve a lot of car-time, driving from one house to another, politely grabbing a bite of the food on offer before rushing to the next venue...
A lot of our foreign readers may not realize this but today is Eid al-Fitr (spelling varies) the biggest holiday of the year for most Indonesians. It marks the end of a month of daytime fasting, and today's the day when people go pay their respects to relatives, friends and colleagues, which tends to involve a lot of car-time, driving from one house to another, politely grabbing a bite of the food on offer before rushing to the next venue...
This can be a pretty surreal experience, for me beginning early in the morning with a long drive to my grandfather-in-law's house in a small village outside Jakarta, and ending up many hours (and stops) later, giving best wishes to the President at the palace...
