In Gambir train station in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Ms Supiah impatiently waits for her turn to depart for Bojonegoro, a laid-back town situated some 600km away in East Java province.
Along with her husband and son, she is among more than 30 million travellers all over Indonesia who will undertake the "mudik", as the annual hometown exodus is called, for the Muslim Lebaran - or Hari Raya - holidays at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
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