Hero's welcome for Indonesian gold medallists


Indonesia's Rio Olympics medallists ride an open-top bus with coaches and officials on their way to meet with President Joko Widodo in Jakarta, Indonesia August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Iqro Rinaldi

JAKARTA: Indonesian Olympic gold medal winners Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir were given a hero’s welcome by hundreds of flag-waving fans as the badminton champions returned home.

They arrived at Jakarta airport to enthusiastic scenes from the waiting crowd, before travelling through the capital in an open-top, double-decker bus on Tuesday.

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