Sunday, 6th March 2011
George Benson played in a second concert on Sunday night featuring hiw own greatest hits. The concert was also played to a full house.
Every main event at this 'Festival' was preceeded by the singing of the Indonesian National Anthem. Pakdokter was very impressed by the enthusiasm of the crowd in singing their National Anthem. It reflected how 'nationalistic' and proud they are of their country.
What they did not tolerate was 'longer-than-necessary' speeches by 'politico-organisers' who wanted to capitalise on this event for their own political ends. This was witnessed when the Chief of Tourism Indonesia wanted to thank and acknowledge the US Embassy in Jakarta which had sponsored some of the main performers who came from the USA. Despite the speech being less than 2 minutes ( to pakdokter's estimate), he was 'booed' and told to finish up quickly. Nobody wanted to hear a long 'political' speech during a 'party' like this....
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