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