At a pro-Palestine rally in the city of Medan in North Sumatra on Sunday, a sizeable number of self-declared homemakers were in attendance, who have built a movement to collect aid for Palestine.

Among them was 51-year-old Normala Sari, who told Al Jazeera that homemakers view the support for Palestine as an extension of their roles as mothers and wives.

“We consider the Palestinians our family too,” she said. “If they are sad, we are sad. If they are afraid, we feel afraid.”

Sari, who said she had attended four other demonstrations across North Sumatra and that she would continue to do so until a permanent ceasefire has been called in Gaza.

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