All Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage to Makkah if they can afford to do so. . . . In Indonesia today, rural communities will pool their money in order to collect enough for a single couple to make the pilgrimage. No single family could ever earn enough, so each year the community sends the oldest couple who has not yet gone. The whole town will go to the Jakarta airport to see off their "representatives."
— Robert Frager, The Wisdom of Islam