This week's Car Free Day happenings: a couple hundred ondel-ondel puppets lined up along Jalan Thamrin... why? We're not exactly sure, but they were all numbered and looked like maybe they had been part of a contest of some sort.
This month is Jakarta's 486th birthday (Dirgahayu Jakarta!), so there have been lots of celebrations across the city over the past few weeks, many of which centered on Betawi culture, from which the ondel-ondel originate.
Remember the video I took of the ondel-ondel dance performance last year? Incedentally, it's the most popular video on my YouTube channel by a crazy amount for some reason... as of this writing it had over 32,000 views, whereas my next most popular video only had 186 views. Eh?
Here's me and Tim posing in front of the un-manned ondel-ondel:
I like how each one has a slightly different face:
Finally, after all those ondel-ondel, we stopped at Bundaran HI to listen to this cool sounding band... I don't know what that bamboo instrument is, but I like it:
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