Teachers join dance, music classes

Teachers join dance, music classes

BOGOR: At least 100 local teachers joined traditional dance
and angklung music classes to help them prepare their schools for
an upcoming student competition in June and the Bogor Art
Festival in August.

Angklung is a musical instrument indigenous to the Sundanese
culture of West Java, and consists of bamboo tubes suspended from
a frame to form a scale. The tubes are played by shaking and are
usually played in an ensemble.

Officiated by newly installed Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto, the
class opened on April 19 and will last until April 24.

Head of the local tourism, art and culture office Reny
Handayani said on Monday that the classes were aimed at
disseminating the value of traditional culture to kindergarten,
primary and secondary school students.

Diani Budiarto said this year's training was the fourth, but
was the first to have such a large number of participants.

He expressed a hope that such courses could help revive the
angklung.

"This is actually a cultural asset of this city, and should be
mastered and maintained by students," Diani said. -- JP