In addition to safety measures, here are prayers to be recited before and/or during the flight
If you are afraid of flying finding this leaflet in your airplane seat is not pleasant
AirAsia
DPS
Indonesia
I must admit that I was surprised when, in the past few days, I sat in my seat aboard an AirAsia A320, more specifically a plane from the Indonesian branch of Asia's largest low-cost carrier. Let's just say. Has been added to the list of curiosities In my personal archive.
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It was a flight departing Jakarta and bound for Bali and in the seat pocket I found, along with the sheet of classic emergency measures one with prayers.
Six different religions
On the paper, inserted into all seat pockets, there are prayers of six different religions in English and Indonesian. These are the officially recognized religions in Indonesia.
The first thing that attracted my attention, however, was. the title of the paperback: DOA. I could not give a meaning to this acronym, partly because the only sensible one I could think of came from my sickness for American seriality, and DOA is used in crime series to mean Dead On Arrival, which is when an injured person arrives deceased at the hospital, but I doubt that's what those three letters mean. If you know what it refers to, will you write it down for me in the comments?
The other oddity is the list of religions: Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucianism. All religions very much present in the Indonesian population. I was surprised, however, by two separate prayers for Christianity and Catholicism, partly because the latter is one of the many "streams" of Christianity.
It then made me laugh a lot to find out that the thing is very viral on the web and that many people say that for atheists the prayers are the ones written in the other sheet, or for safety measures in case of an accident.
Not only AirAsia
I have read that this is a tradition that is present on many other Indonesian-flagged airlines, a few days later I flew Garuda Indonesia, the national airline, but I didn't find anything on board, not even in the magazines distributed to all passengers.
