100,000 to exercise at Monas

100,000 to exercise at Monas

JAKARTA: The Community Sports Federation of Indonesia (FOMI)
is to hold an exercise session en masse that it anticipates will
involve 75,000 to 100,000 people at the National Monument (Monas)
on March 7, according to FOMI chairman Datuk Hakim Tantawi.

Besides casual exercise enthusiasts, the participants will be
made up of those from political parties, the National Police and
the Indonesian Military (TNI).

Tantawi said on Friday that the federation would work together
with the Jakarta administration and the city's general elections
committee with the hope that the event would unite people and
remind them that differences in political allegiance should not
divide them.

"I believe that the event will go peacefully," Tantawi said
and added that FOMI would not bar the participants from wearing
political party paraphernalia. -- JP