Giant dragon in lantern display

Giant dragon in lantern display

JAKARTA (JP): A pair of giant dragons made of 400,000 small
glass bottles and weighing about five tons is the highlight of
hundreds of Chinese lanterns that went on display at the Jakarta
Fair Grounds last night.

Nugroho Aditomo of PT Jakarta International Trade Fair
Corporation said that the lanterns were originally scheduled to
appear during the one-month Jakarta Fair from June 14 to July 13
but were postponed for technical reasons.

The lanterns were designed by the China-Indonesia Friendship
Chinese Lantern team.

Others include fortune gates, phoenix dragons, a pair of
dragons on a lake, a pair of peacocks, seven angels bathing in a
lake, the Al Ahzar grand mosque and the Monday Monument, he said.

Nugroho said that the delay was caused mainly by difficulties
in transporting the equipment from Seechuan, China.

The lanterns will be lit every day until Sept. 15 from 6:00
p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Tickets cost Rp 10,000 (US$3.84) each. (hhr)