Tolerance amid Diversity
Erzsa Maharanny Sula remembers vividly how happy she was when she met the Ibnu Tadji family in Jakarta three years ago. Erzsa had just arrived from her birthplace, Rote Ndao, East Nusa Tenggara. The 16-year-old would live with the Tadjis for three weeks, during the fasting month of Ramadhan.
"At first it was confusing. It was the fasting month and my first time living with people of a different religion and ethnicity," said Erzsa. "But everything went so well and my host family were very nice. Bung (honorific for men) Iben and Bunda (mother) Pratiwi treated me like their own daughter."
December 27, 2016
Erzsa Maharanny Sula remembers vividly how happy she was when she met the Ibnu Tadji family in Jakarta three years ago. Erzsa had just arrived from her birthplace, Rote Ndao, East Nusa Tenggara. The 16-year-old would live with the Tadjis for three weeks, during the fasting month of Ramadhan.
"At first it was confusing. It was the fasting month and my first time living with people of a different religion and ethnicity," said Erzsa. "But everything we
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