Anniversary (HUT) to the Jakarta-482

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Anniversary (HUT) to the Jakarta-482 loaded with arts and cultural attractions, with the show at least 25 arts groups that strengthened around 1600 personnel in the Carnival Jakarta.

"Jakarta who was known as the City of Batavia, now growing more rapidly especially with its position as the capital of the state, because the variety of art and culture that has a distinctive potential," said Guburnur Bowo Fawzy DKI Jakarta on the sidelines of the commemoration of HUT Jakarta area in Jalan Merdeka Selatan, Jakarta, Sunday.

To enliven HUT Jakarta, dance masks and various Betawi arts are to the spectators that come various corners of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi.

Although the crowd on the edge must Jalan Merdeka Selatan, Jakarta Merdeka, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman and Thamrin, the visitors still see the fun parade various art and cultural groups such as bicycle Onthel, mounted troops, marching bands and groups of Betawi buffoonery.

"I purposely came from Bogor by bringing the family, because the moment to see the car, and a variety of decorative art and cultural transactions like this are very rare, at most only once a year," said one spectator carnival Jakarta, Cecep Suparna.

In connection with the HUT Jakarta ke-482, also held Kemayoran Jakarta Fair (JFK) in 2009 which was up more than 500 thousand pengujung.

In response to this, Fawzy said, all this activity, to invite people directly involved or not. Batavia triumph in the past, should be the spirit of the struggle for the future to promote Jakarta.

On the other hand, by displaying various art and cultural attractions, it is expected that the arts will not be extinct Betawi, as ondel-ondel, buffoonery Betawi, and so forth.

While the carnival for a smooth Jakarta, a number of roads that passed motorcade decorative arts and the team closed the road such as Jalan Thamrin and Sudirman and Jalan Merdeka Selatan.