If you live in a part of Indonesia that is predominantly Muslim, like Java for instance, then Idul Fitri is the time when the air is filled with incessant praise of God. At the celebration at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, all night long from sundown the day the fasting ends through to morning prayer the next day you hear people chanting and mosques blaring, God is great, Allahu Akbar.

The word for God, Allah, is Arabic of course, and