Shuttlers stage fund raising match

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's top badminton players will team up with noted celebrities in a fund-raising event to raise money for victims of natural disasters.

"We will show our concern for the needy people throughout the country by staging an exhibition badminton event," organizing committee chairman and men's doubles player Sigit Budiarto told reporters on Monday.

"We will hand over all profits from ticket sales and racket auctions to them."

The exhibition matches will take place on Feb. 24 at the Manggala Siliwangi indoor tennis stadium in Bandung.

Taufik Hidayat, Candra Wijaya, Tony Gunawan, Ricky Subagja and Flandy Limpele are among the shuttlers who will be participating along side music group PADI and Project P. (nvn)