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Socializing in Ramadhan

For Muslims in Indonesia, Ramadhan also means catching up with old friends and relatives

Dhika Himawan (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Sun, July 21, 2013

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Socializing in Ramadhan

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or Muslims in Indonesia, Ramadhan also means catching up with old friends and relatives.

This is why iftar (fast breaking) at dawn is a favored time to dine out. Living Social Indonesia (livingsocial.co.id) provides a useful link to best meal offers, '€œbuka puasa dealites'€.

The deals are at various establishments across the city, with a wide selection of cuisines, including western, oriental and Indonesian. Visitors can buy the meal packages online.

Living Social (livingsocial.com) is an American based website that offers hundreds of events and activities at special prices. The site automatically registers your location and brings up deals relative to your location.

Deals on activities such as yoga classes to race entries are available, with offers of discounted prices as well as the chances to get them for free. The site four categories: deals, escapes, fun and events and shop.

Any business can be featured on the website and living social will help sell or promote your services online.

Living Social Indonesia has similar lay out and idea with its parent website but focuses its activities and deals in Jakarta and Bali.

Also to welcome the Ramadhan season, Living Social Indonesia offers flight deals for people to fly back to their families outside Jakarta. Livingsocial.tiket.com has its own page for booking various airlines with package deals and special prices.

For this Idul Fitri holiday, the site has banked the best packages for customers, offering a convenient way to make it happen.

Other than flights, livingsocial.tiket.com provides train tickets. The cheapest rate tickets are around Rp50,000 (US$5) to Bandung, and for further afield, the tickets are about Rp 300,000.

The website also has its own page for hotels. This is accompanied by categories such as cheap hotel deals, popular hotels and most booked hotels.

The special deals do have time limits and room limits, to both attract and alert customers to book swiftly.

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