Julia Suryakusuma
The writer is the author of Julia’s Jihad. She can be reached at www.juliasuryakusuma.com

I’M sure you all have some familiarity with numerology, that ancient belief in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and life. Well, numerology as a divinatory art is all very well, but I’m more interested in how we give our own significances to numbers.

Take us Indonesians, for example. The numbers 17, 8 and 45 are l