Dance festival

Dance festival
starts tomorrow

JAKARTA (JP): The International Dance Festival and Conference
starts here tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Taman Ismail Marzuki
arts center (TIM) in Central Jakarta.

Scheduled performances following the opening ceremony are from
host country Indonesia, the United States, Singapore and Canada.

Conferences and workshops are planned from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday July 31.
The talks on dance, culture and management will also take place
at TIM, located on Jl. Cikini Raya.

Performances in the evening from at least six other countries
are scheduled on the same days at 8 p.m. Tickets are Rp 15,000 to
Rp 20,000, and Rp 5,000 for students.

Tickets for the children's performance, planned for Saturday
at 4 p.m. at the Gedung Kesenian Jakarta, are Rp 3,000. (anr)

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City closes eight nightspots
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City closes eight nightspots

JAKARTA (JP): The city public order office has temporarily
closed down eight nightspots for violating the regulation on
opening hours and lacking operation permits.

The head of the office, Kusaeni, said yesterday that the
establishments were closed down for two weeks for operating
during the day. The regulation allows them to open until 2 a.m.
from Monday to Friday and until 3 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

"The nightspots hold a Sunday club program in which they open
during the day," Kusaeni said.

The establishments include six discotheques: Sidney 2000, Puja
Sera, Kabuki, Barselona, Jalan-Jalan and TV game in the Topaz
building, Imperium and Sumber Artha massage parlors were closed
for not having operation permits. (yns)