Remembering Home and the Ancestors

TAKING an annual trip home is an obligation for couples after getting married. At least that is how Anneila Firza Kadriyanti sees it. She has made sure she practices this filial duty ever since she has a husband. Every year, the 31-year-old from Pekanbaru, Riau, makes the trip home to her husband’s family village in North Padang Lawas Regency, North Sumatra. “The annual homecoming is a tradition among the Batak people of Mandailing, t

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