‘I hope I will live long enough’: Indonesians resigned to much longer wait to fulfil haj dream
JAKARTA – Lilis Mukhlisoh is beginning to wonder if she will ever be able to fulfil her obligation as a Muslim to perform the haj. After an eight-year wait, she got the call to depart for Saudi Arabia in 2019 but a serious motorcycle accident kept her at home in the Indonesian town of Majalengka.
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