Medan, Indonesia – On a cloudy and dull Sunday morning in December, more than a thousand people gathered on the grounds of the Istana Maimoon, a 19th-century palace that is a local landmark in the city of Medan in North Sumatra.
Outside the palace, a sea of people dressed predominantly in white, green, black and red, the colours of the Palestinian flag, had gathered to hear speeches in support of the Palestinian cause.
