REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIJING - Around 6,000 Chinese people on Sunday got together in Beijing labor stadium to play angklung, an Indonesian Sundanese traditional musical instrument made of bamboo. The Beijing angklung concert was also attended by 20 foreign ambassadors in China, including the US ambassador for China, Gary Locke.
The angklung orchestra led by Mang Udjo from Saung Angklung Mang Udjo, featured several songs such as Manuk Dadali or the Eagle, Yueliang Daibiao Wo De Xin in Mandarin language and a song "We Are The World".
"We hope to show one of the Indonesian traditional cultures through the angklung concert as well as to share and strengthen community relations between the two nations," Indonesian ambassador, Imron Cotan said on Sunday.
The angklung players are many elements of people including students, representatives of China`s company ZTE, students of China Defence University, Indonesian-born citizens who settle in China. The concert also showed the angklung historical film and a phrase of I Love Angklung in ten different languages on the concert screen. The concert organizer also featured digital Angklung made in Indonesia - Sansico.
Earlier, general chairman of the Indonesia-China Friendship Association (PPIT), Bondan Gunawan said that the 6,000 angklung colossal concert constituted one of the cultural diplomacy measures to enhance ties of the Indonesian and China`s citizens.
"The diplomacy brings about many aspects such as inter-governments, inter-business people, and between communities," Winarno said.
The 6,000 angklung colossal concert would be registered in the Guiness Book of Records, following the 5,000 angklung concert conducted by the Indonesian representatives office in the United States in 2011, he noted.
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