Indonesia's 'minority within a minority' celebrate Lunar New Year

FILE PHOTO: People pray as they celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rat at a temple in Medan, South Sumatra province, Indonesia, January 25, 2020 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Septianda Perdana/ via REUTERS

JAKARTA (Reuters) - As he does every year, ethnic Chinese Indonesian Purnama celebrated Lunar New Year on Saturday at a dinner with his extended family of more than 50 in Jakarta where they exchanged traditional red envelopes containing money.

But the 49-year-old Purnama, who uses one name, is unlike most of his ethnic Chinese family: he is a Muslim.