Angklung music festival planned

The City Education Office plans to hold an angklung music festival as part of efforts to popularize the traditional music among elementary school students .

The festival will be held at the Jakarta Play House today.

Forty-five students from 26 elementary schools in the city, under the guidance of conductor Obby AR, will take part in the festival which is scheduled to last an hour and half.

Angklung, which hails from Java, used to be popular music among youth. Lately, however, this music has been overshadowed by the influx of foreign popular music.(has)