People sit and eat Iftar dinner, the evening meal with which Muslims traditionally end their daily fast during Ramadan, outside the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, in this file picture from May 13, 2019. - Bloomberg
JAKARTA (AFP): Muslim majority Indonesia on Friday (March 26) banned an annual exodus that sees millions travel across the vast nation to mark the end of Ramadan over fears of a surge in Covid-19 infections.
Travellers pack into airports, train stations and ports across the nearly 5,000km (3,100 mile) long archipelago in a mass migration, known as Mudik, that is similar to China's Lunar New Year holiday or Christmas.
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