1930: Maharban

'In 1930 Abdul Rahim Kajai, the editor of Saudara at that moment, criticised and ridiculed the Islamic traditional authorities who organised a practice that was called marhaban (adapted from boria), referring to groups of youngsters going around people’s houses to recite prayers and blessings just after the Idul fitri prayers in the mosque and ‘coercing’ the hosts to give some money. Kajai reacted to a letter to the editor by a very perturbed Muslim who could not agree with the practice (Saudara, 26 April 1930).'