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        "msgid": "tugu-community-holds-ritual-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-01-14 00:00:00",
        "title": "Tugu community holds ritual",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Tugu community holds ritual JAKARTA (JP): Residents of the historic Tugu area of North Jakarta will hold a traditional ritual purification ceremony on Sunday. Longtime resident Samuel Quiko said on Thursday the mandi- mandi festival should have been held a week after New Year's but was postponed because of the Idul Fitri holiday. He said the ritual, in which revelers smear powder on each other's faces, would be held in the front yard of SMU 52 senior high school.",
        "content": "<p>Tugu community holds ritual<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Residents of the historic Tugu area of North<br>\nJakarta will hold a traditional ritual purification ceremony on<br>\nSunday.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime resident Samuel Quiko said on Thursday the mandi-<br>\nmandi festival should have been held a week after New Year's but<br>\nwas postponed because of the Idul Fitri holiday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ritual, in which revelers smear powder on each<br>\nother's faces, would be held in the front yard of SMU 52 senior<br>\nhigh school. It will be preceded by a religious ceremony in the<br>\nTugu Church, which is believed to have been built by Portuguese<br>\nsettlers several hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\"Although we will begin the festival with a Christian ritual,<br>\nthe celebration is open to all people of Tugu,\" Samuel said.<\/p>\n<p>A traditional band will entertain the revelers with the famous<br>\nKeroncong Tugu music.<\/p>\n<p>The city administration has designated Tugu a protected area<br>\nwithin a radius of 11.3 hectares due to its Portuguese<br>\nheritage.(ind)<\/p>",
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