Buddhist monks attend candlelight and lantern flights ceremony during the annual 'Pabbaja Samanera' ritual, a 13-day moral and spiritual training for prospective monks at Borobudur Temple in Magelang, Indonesia on December 23, 2023. Pabbajja Samanera is a sacred event that involves temporary training for aspiring monks. The event is not only a spiritual immersion but also a celebration of unity, attracting participants from Indonesia and around the globe. Around 500 monks attend this sacred ritual from Indonesia, Laos, America, Inggris, and Thailand at the Borobudur Temple. (Photo by Garry Andrew Lotulung/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A participant takes part in a bull race competition called “Pacu Jawi” in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, December 23, 2023. Originally held annually to celebrate rice harvest, the event has now become a major tourist attraction in the region. (Photo by Adi Prima/AP Photo)





Visitors visit the Chatra umbrella installation exhibition during the 2023 Borobudur Tridaya Festival at Ringinputih field in Magelang, Central Java province, Indonesia on December 23, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Anis Efizudin/Antara Foto via Reuters)





Nuns hold candles during the Christmas Eve mass at Graha Maria Annai Velangkanni Church in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Sunday, December 24, 2023. (Photo by Binsar Bakkara/AP Photo)





Christian devotees hold candles during a midnight mass on Christmas Eve at the Bethany church in Surabaya on December 24, 2023. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo)





A man takes photos of dark clouds from a tsunami evacuation building on December 25, 2023, on the eve of the 19th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries, with Aceh recording the highest death toll in Banda Aceh. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





An Acehnese woman prays and reads the Koran at a mass grave for tsunami victims, in rememberance of their deceased family members during the 2004 Tsunami Commemoration in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 26 December 2023. On 26 December 2023, Indonesia marks the 19th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami which was triggered by a 9.2 earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of northern Sumatra, and killed an estimated 230,000 people in 14 countries. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA)





An Acehnese woman reacts as she prays during the 2004 Tsunami Commemoration at a mass grave for tsunami victims in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia on December 26, 2023. (Photo by Riska Munawarah/Reuters)





University students demonstrate against the arrival of Rohingya refugees in front of the People's Representative Council (DPR) in Banda Aceh on December 27, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)





People ride sleighs on artificial snow at Trans Snow World Bintaro, an indoor snow park with a Japanese theme, in Bintaro on December 27, 2023. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





People ride on ski lifts at Trans Snow World Bintaro, an indoor snow park with a Japanese theme, in Bintaro on December 27, 2023. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Rohingya refugees crowd into a vehicle for relocation to a nearby government building after demonstrating university students forced them out of the current government facility, in Banda Aceh on December 27, 2023. Hundreds of university students in Indonesia's westernmost province stormed a temporary shelter for more than a hundred Rohingya refugees on December 27, forcing them to leave in the latest rejection of the persecuted Myanmar minority. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)





A worker is immersed in a kaleidoscope of colour while they paint traditional umbrellas in Juwiring, Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia in December 2023. The workers who spend around 8 hours a day, depending on order quantities and customer deadlines are paid around Ј200 a month. They will paint a batch over the period of two to three days until each layer of paint is dry. Extras of the traditional umbrella will be made as many tourists come to buy them. (Photo by Lia Indriani/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Members of the Hindu community take part in a ceremony marking the full moon in the Kerobokan district on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on December 28, 2023. (Photo by David Gannon/AFP Photo)





This picture shows a fishing boat during sunrise at a beach in Sanur on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on December 29, 2023. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP Photo)





A rice farmer works in the paddy fields at the Kerobokan district on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on December 30, 2023. (Photo by David Gannon/AFP Photo)





Balinese dancers perform as they take part in a cultural parade, during a new year's eve celebration at a main road in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 31 December 2023. (Photo by Made Nagi/EPA)





Balinese dancers perform as they take part in a cultural parade, during a new year's eve celebration at a main road in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Made Nagi/EPA/EFE)





Children perform the Balinese traditional dance during a New Year's Eve celebration in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP Photo)





Fireworks illuminate the night sky as revelers celebrate New Year's Eve at the beach on December 31, 2023 in the Kerobokan district on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia. (Photo by David Gannon/AFP Photo)