Cisadane festival opened

Cisadane festival opened

TANGERANG: Tangerang mayor M. Thamrin opened on Thursday the Cisadane festival, which is being held as part of city promotion week.

The opening of the one-week Cisadane festival and promotion week was marked by several Tangerang traditional dances such as cokek, ampak gendang, kentongan and qasidahan.

The Cisadane festival and the promotion week are to be held in two separate places. Promotion week is to be centered on Mall D'Best in Jl. MH. Thamrin until Aug. 21 while the Cisadane Festival will be organized along the Cisadane river bank on Jl. Benteng Jaya.

Organizing committee chairman Rudi H. Dinuri said that the promotion week would feature various industrial goods and handicrafts made in Tangerang.

Thamrin said that this year was the first time the 8th festival and the promotion week were organized simultaneously to celebrate Independence Day and to promote the development of city industrial businesses.--JP