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School Is Out.
A day or two of this activity, as in other countries, especially China, would be bearable, but we have got to endure sleepless nights and being rudely awakened at the crack of dawn for a month, and we are only halfway there,'' a reader wrote recently in The Jakarta Post. Mr. Alam said. But no one expects to get a good night's sleep anytime soon. Ramadan, when Muslims are required to fast during daylight hours, is perhaps the one time of year when Indonesia, which has never been too concerned with following Islam to the letter, tries to act like a traditional Muslim state. Unlike many other Islamic countries, Indonesia does not require women to cover their heads in public or segregate themselves from men.