
My lovely Samarinda. I do remember the 2 first year Ramadan in Indonesia; continual cacophony 24/24 everyday. At the point they were playing music while the night, no way they will calm down 5 minute.
Last year thing change. Following the sudden price rise of the fuel, people were a little bit short on their budget. I also suspect some willing to keep peace following some fight between different community. Probably using the fuel price rise as a good excuse... the speaker shut up. They don't really make more noise then habitually. No more cat-fighting-a -like sound outside.
This year it's even more fade away. With the coming election, people have other thing to keep their mind busy than Ramadan.
The habitual "opening" of ramadan with firework was... short stock of firework.
My family in law are chinese and catholic and seriously, if I didn't know it was ramadan, I would not know!
But... Yeah! It have less traffic in morning and the working day will be more short.
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