154: Indonesian Women’s Unlucky Number

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

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