Children choir competition planned

The Gramedia group in cooperation with Bank Central Asia and private-television channel SCTV will sponsor the third Dendang Kencana children's choir competition for students of nursery (TK) and primary schools (SD) in the greater Jakarta area.

The organizing committee said yesterday that the finals of the competition, which has been in both 1990 and 1992, is scheduled to take place at Bentara Budaya building on Jl. Palmerah Selatan, Central Jakarta on Nov. 27.

Participants of the competition, which is organized as an alternative to the current trend of commercial children's songs, will feature existing children's songs and new songs which won prizes at the Indonesian Children Song Composing Contest 1993.

Participants can register for the contest until Sept. 30 at the organizing committee on Jl. Palmerah Selatan. (als)