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JAKARTA (AFP) - Muslim majority Indonesia on Friday (March 26) banned an annual exodus that sees millions travel across the vast nation to mark the end of Ramadan over fears of a surge in Covid-19 infections. Travellers pack into airports, train stations and ports across the nearly 5,000km-long archipelago in a mass migration, known as Mudik, that is similar to the mass travel seen for China's Lunar New Year holiday. Many head to home towns in time for celebrations at the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, a festival known as Eid al-Fitr. Ramadan ends in mid-May...