Festival for street singers

BOGOR, West Java (JP): The Bogor Association of Street Singers in cooperation with the local administration will organize a competition for street singers.

To be staged in the town's information office's hall, the competition, the first of its kind to be held in Indonesia, will include 30 groups from various cities including Bogor, Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Sukabumi and Cianjur.

The preliminary round of the competition will start tomorrow at 10 a.m. The round will select 10 the best groups which will advance to the finals on July 20.

Frans Rumbino, chairman of the organizing committee, told The Jakarta Post that the competition is to be held to commemorate the 514th anniversary of Bogor and World Environmental Day as a well as a gathering for all street singers across Java. (21)