Digital Braille Copies of Quran Distributed in Indonesia
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Digital copies of the Quran in Braille were distributed among 1500 visually-impaired Muslims in Indonesia.
According to al-Jazeera, the Sheikh Ali Jaber charity institute ordered and handed out the copies in a gathering of the visually impaired.
The biggest of its kind in South East Asia, it was held last month in the city of Surabaya, the capital of Indonesia’s East Java province.
The Quran distribution was part of a long term plan aiming to hand out more than a million copies of digital Braille Qurans among those needing them.
Indonesia has the largest number of the visually impaired people in Asia and the world.
It is estimated that some 1.5 percent of the country’s population is blind.
