Muslims in Indonesia are shopping for sweets and new clothes and taking part in traditional festivities as millions mark the start of the holy month of Ramadan, set to begin Saturday. Celebrations in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country range from colorful nighttime parades and cleaning family graves to preparing food for predawn breakfasts and elaborate post-sundown meals known as “iftars.

Muslim women shop for meat as they prepare for the holy month of Ramadan at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/)

Ramadan is a time of togetherness for Muslims, as they fill mosques for hours of prayer and share large, lavish meals with family, friends and neighbors after days of dawn-to-dusk fasting. In Indonesia,

Muslim men rest after the first Friday prayer of the fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Dragon dancers perform in a torch parade parade ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tangerang, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/)

Officials prepare a telescope to scan the horizon for a crescent moon that will determine the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Feb 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Holiday lights decorate a doorway near the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ahead of the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan,

Indonesian retailers are rolling out various shopping discount programs in the latest attempt to spur demand during the Ramadan festive season when consumption typically peaks in the $1.4-trillion economy.

Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, is welcoming Ramadan with vibrant traditions. From torchlight parades to music and dance, communities have come together to mark the start of the holy month.

NewsFeed Muslim worshippers hold first Ramadan prayer in Jakarta. Muslim worshippers in Indonesia held their first tarawih prayer of the holy month of Ramadan at Jakarta’s Istiq

Ramadan is a time of togetherness for Muslims, as they fill mosques for hours of prayer and share large, lavish meals with family, friends and neighbors after days of dawn-to-dusk fasting.

This year’s holy month of Ramadan in Indonesia – the world s largest Muslim-majority country with approximately 241 million Muslims, accounting for 88% of the population – begins on March 1.

Muslims in Indonesia are shopping for sweets and new clothes and taking part in traditional festivities as millions mark the start of the holy month of Ramadan, set to begin Saturday.