Tue, 19 Nov 1996

Healthy young children contest

JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta will send two representatives to the national healthy young children contest.

The representatives are Teguh Prastianto from South Jakarta and Tiffany Susanti from Central Jakarta. They, along with finalists from Indonesia's 26 other provinces, will compete for the Madam Tien Soeharto trophy.

The participants are children between six months and five years old.

The competition will take place at the Vice Presidential Palace, Jl. Merdeka Selatan, Central Jakarta on Nov. 21.

Teguh is the child of Mugiyanto and Ngatini, residents of Manggarai Selatan subdistrict, while Tiffany is the child of Fatah Hidayat and Sugiarti of Petojo subdistrict, Central Jakarta.

Teguh is in the six-month-to-two-year age group, while Tiffany is from two-to-five-year group.

Spokesperson for sponsor PT Indofood Elly Putranti said yesterday the winner of the contest would get Rp 2 million (US$864) cash. (sur)