Ambon Bay Festival Ready to be Held

Ambon Bay Festival in Ambon, Maluku, ready to be held September 30 and October 1, 2011. The festival which lasts for two days, a momentum to restore the image of Maluku after riots occurred in several areas in Ambon, 11 September.

"Convening this event is an attempt to show that Ambon Maluku or safe for tourist visits," said Head of Culture and Tourism Florence Sahusilawane Maluku, Ambon, on Thursday (29/09/2011).

In the festival, competitions will be held privately. Three of the four eyes of the race are closely related to traditions and culture of the people of Maluku.

 

The race was among them, arumbae manggurebe or arumbae traditional boat race. Arumbae was formerly used as a boat war society. There are ten groups of participants who plan to race. They not only come from Ambo n but also of the Ceram and Saparua.

Then race the traditional fishing boat with a fishing pole and traditionally is planned to be followed by the 104 boats. In addition, hosts boat races (bercadik) which pengayuhnya were women. They will be using the traditional clothing of Maluku, clothing Cele. Already there are 30 groups and boats have signed up to follow this race.

Last is the swimming relay race with a pool lane from the north side of Ambon Bay (Cape Martafons) and finished on the south side of the Bay of Ambon (Galala). Already there are 40 teams; each team amounted to two swimmers, who will follow this race.

INtroduce Makassar with Jazz Festival

MAKASSAR-INDONESIA, a jazz festival that will involve the jazz musicians in the country in Benteng Fort Rotterdam 1-2 later in August is intended to introduce to the international world.

Chairman of the committee as well as the presentation, Hendra Sinadia, in a press meet in Benteng Fort Rotterdam, Makassar, Friday (31 / 7), say, a jazz festival event was first held this is one of the efforts to introduce the egotism to the outside world.

"Jazz festival of this kind we have made a campaign tool in the international world, hopefully, what we are trying can provide benefits to Makassar, including tourism can create more developed in the future," he said.

Head of Culture and Tourism Office in Makassar City, Edy Kosasih Parawangsa said every good performance with the aim of course is rightly to be supported together, either by society or government.

"We of course the government will strongly support the event like this. However, when would that it could be sustainable in every year," he said.

A number of jazz musicians who will also appear in the meet the press, and among Gilang Ramadan, Zarro, Indra Aziz, Paul T-Five, Willy, Donny Sujono, Ivan, and host of Jazz musicians, Andi Manggara.