Huge rice cone in Madura

BANGKALAN, East Java: A businessman celebrated Indonesia's 50th anniversary on Aug. 17 in a unique way: he provided his whole neighborhood with a giant rice cone, with more than enough rice for all.

Yohanes, the owner of a department store, used 700 kilograms of rice and 300 kilograms of fruit to make an eight-meter-tall rice cone.

"The tumpeng (rice cone) was mainly for the poor," he said, as quoted by Antara news agency.

"I hope that it will be recorded in the Indonesian Museum of Records," Yohanes said.(imn)