75 street children to perform

JAKARTA: As many as 75 street children from the city's five municipalities will enter a "Street Children's Expression Festival" on Sept. 13.

The festival, organized by the Cahaya Hati Bangsa foundation and supported by members of the Harley Davidson Owner's Club, will be held at the Ministry of National Education building on Jl. Jend. Sudirman in Central Jakarta, the foundation said in a statement on Wednesday.

During the festival, the children will sing and perform dances and plays, including a play which portrays their experience of being sexually harassed on the streets.

During the festival, which has a theme of "Why Did We Become Street Children and Who Cares about Us," they will make "a pledge" not to live on the streets any longer.-JP