JAKARTA: Indonesians are turning to smugglers and bogus travel documents to get around bans on an annual end-of-Ramadan exodus that could send Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases skyrocketing in the world's biggest Muslim majority nation.
Thousands are using any trick in the book to reach their hometowns in time for celebrations at the end of Islam's holy fasting month this weekend, a festival known as Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
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