Midnight at Southeast Asia's largest mosque isn't the usual place to find a drag queen. But Dorce Gamalama is no ordinary drag queen - she is a famous performer who has arrived at Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque as part of one of her charity drives.
Looking like a cross between the Virgin Mary and an Indonesian society queen, Dorce emerges from a taxi wearing a white, gold-edged diaphanous veil, huge gold drop earrings and a long, flowing white dress embroidered with flowers.
Jakarta's Muslim beggars, who've arrived in their hundreds to benefit from her largesse, are not surprised.
To the beggars and most Indonesians, Ibu Dorce, or Ms Dorce, is one of their favourite performers, a devout Muslim who just happens to be a transsexual.
'My hobby is to watch Ibu Dorce on TV,' says 43-year-old Enisah, after receiving a breakfast food parcel from Dorce's assistants.
A few hours later, Dorce appears live on Salam Sahur, a kind of variety special. Dressed in a demure black headscarf, the performer hams it up with other comedians and actors, while complaining about the bitterness of the traditional medicine - for thrush - she is sipping on the set. The audience titters.
Only in Indonesia could a drag- queen comedian host a popular Muslim television special and joke about women's problems, say observers.