New Year Eve to focus in Ancol, not Monas

JAKARTA: The city administration has decided to centralize New Year's Eve celebrations in Ancol, North Jakarta to spare Monas Park from damage.

Head of the Culture and Tourism Agency Arie Budhiman said the Ancol management would hold the celebration.

"It's spacious and people gather there anyway," he said on Thursday.

The city used to concentrate the celebration in the National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta. Monas management unit director Rini Hariyani said that over the past two years, the administration had st