The holy month of Ramadan is coming to an end throughout the Islamic World and is being celebrated with one of the most important holidays in Islam, known as lebaran in Indonesian.
Even though Flores is predominantly Catholic (estimates usually put the figure at about 85%), there are sizeable Muslim populations especially in coastal areas. These reflect settlement by sea-faring people such as the Buginese or the Bajaw, but also autochthonous ethnic groups that were converted by missionaries coming from the Sultanates of Bima on Sumbawa and Gowa on Sulawesi. Flores presents a great example of religious harmony in Indonesia, and one of the reasons for this is that in a given ethnic group. So for this lebaran, many Muslims with celebrate together with their Catholic family members and neighbours.
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