Carollers bring Christmas cheer to streets of Jakarta for the first time


The Parahyangan University Student Choir from Bandung, West Java, performs a Christmas carol in Kendal underpass, Central Jakarta on Wednesday.

JAKARTA (ANN): Groups of singers brought cheer to Jakarta's main streets filling the air with Christmas carols and tunes on Thursday (Dec 19) evening - the first time ever in the capital of the world's largest Muslim-majority country.

Around 30 carollers, clad in black and white attire with a red scarf made of North Sumatra cloth or ulos, sang a series of popular Christmas songs to almost 200 people at Dukuh Atas Park in Central Jakarta.

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