More than 7,000 people, mostly Catholic pilgrims, take part in a centuries-old Easter procession in eastern Indonesia for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. The tradition, known as Semana Santa, includes a procession of transporting a box believed to hold a sacred Baby Jesus statue in a flotilla followed by hundreds of boats. "I got goosebumps seeing this for the first time," said a pilgrim Erasma Arpete Nilam. The wider Christian community in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been the target of discrimination and several Islamist militant attacks in recent years. Catholics represent around three percent of the secular democracy's 270 million people. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES