Jakarta Fair to focus more on entertainment
Jakarta Fair to focus more on entertainment
JAKARTA (JP): The one-month Jakarta Fair, scheduled to start
on June 15, will be focused more toward entertainment than
business in order to attract more visitors.
The organizing committee expects that 170,000 people will
visit the fair that features 1,200 booths, with Rp 120 billion in
business transactions, the event organizer, Harry Rusli, said on
Thursday.
Last year, the fair attracted 140,000 visitors to 966 booths
and saw Rp 120 billion in transactions, Antara reported.
Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri is slated to open the
fair in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.
The entrance fee will be Rp 6,000.
A total of 128 concerts, with 155 artists participating, will
be performed, according to musician Harry.
Among top artists to perform in the event are The Fly, Pas,
Base Jam, Iis Dahlia, Slank, GIGI, Jamrud, Wayang, Cici
Faramida, Nini Karlina, Bunglon and Nugie.
The concerts will start nightly at 9 p.m. on the 30 x 18 meter
stage with 40,000 watt sound system.
The annual Jakarta Fair is part of a series of events to be
held in celebration of the city's 474th anniversary.
Another event is the JakArt@2001 International Arts Festival,
which features over 250 performances and exhibitions spanning
numerous forms of art, including music, dance, theater and the
visual arts.
The United States Embassy is sponsoring a series of dance
performances from the Saraswati dance company of the Yogyakarta-
based Indonesian Art Institute (ISI), which will collaborate with
American Janis Brenner.
The Embassy has invited four musical groups, the Borowsky
Family from Baltimore, Maryland, Ira Coleman's Carribean Jazz
Connection, Amina Figarova Quartet along with special guest
Dmitri Matheny, and Lotus, a three-person a capella singing
group.
An exhibition of modern batik called Segaragunung presents
works of a collaboration between Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo,
traditional batik artists from Yogyakarta, and Australian
aboriginal women from the desert community of Utopia, Australia.
It is held at the National Museum from May 31 until June 30.
JakArt@2001 also includes the so-called Jakarta Habitus Publik
2001, involving art in the open air. Various artists will present
murals and installation art in different places.
They are now working on murals at Jl. Pintu Besar, North
Jakarta; at a bus stop near Plaza Indonesia, Central Jakarta;
Blok M bus terminal and the entrance to Blok M shopping mall,
South Jakarta; and the shooting range at Jl. Asia Afrika, Central
Jakarta.
Venues for the installation art are the public park at Jl
Teuku Umar, Central Jakarta; Soemantri Brojonegoro sports center,
Blok M terminal, and Blok M Mall in South Jakarta.