Your Christmas greeting to friends, relatives or loved ones:

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all of you. Peace. God bless the world.

Yuda Komang

Please convey my greetings to all Christians. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

E Nurdin
Jakarta

I am sending my Christmas greetings to all, including those who saw me baptized as a Catholic in the city of Jolo (right in the middle of the Muslim Juramentadoes) by Father John of Jolo Catholic Church, in the southern Philippines, 1947.

Then an Air Force sergeant, I was sent to Kalimantan to be with the Air Force First Dropped Paratroopers as commanded by the famous Tjilik Riwut in 1947.

I am 86 years old now, maybe among the oldest in our Indonesian Air Force who is still alive and who is destined to write about our struggle of independence.

Am I not among the happiest to convey Merry Christmas to my compatriots who struggle for the welfare of the nation?

I send my Christmas greetings to my brothers and sisters around the world with the intention and understanding that all religions in the world are for keeping people good, united and able to help each other when in need.

Even though I'€™m in my 80s, I still can'€™t understand why our people are still so backward and left behind so that they do not easily recognize other religions.

Why? How much more time do we need to realize this? Merry Christmas to all.

M. Adikoesoemo
Jakarta

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