On Thursday, we flew 1 ½ hours from Denpasar to Makassar, on the southeast coast of the island of Sulawesi. Makassar is a fervently Muslim city, with at least one large mosque on every block. The muezzins appear to compete with each other to see who can sing the longest in calling worshippers to prayer at 4:00 am. I clocked our local mosque’s call to prayer in at twenty minutes! Luckily, we had to be up that early anyway to catch our 6:45 flight to Timika in Papua. We flew nearly three hours and discovered that a sparkling new airport had apparently replaced the homespun Timika airport we all remembered from 4 ½ years earlier. It appears that change is afoot in Timika, at least as far as the central authority in faraway Jakarta is concerned.
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Rabbi Shoshana KaminskyI've been the rabbi of Beit Shalom Progressive Synagogue in Adelaide since 2006. As part of the Council of Progressive Rabbis of Australia, New Zealand and Asia, I'm now on my fifth trip to Indonesia to teach, pray and celebrate with the communities here. Archives
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