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Shopping spree, fun fling: To the Jakarta Fair people come flocking
As the masses jostled around, stalls were packed, halls swarmed and amusement rides filled to the brim.
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Visitors browse exhibition pavilions at the 54th Jakarta Fair in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, on June 14. (Antara//Galih Pradipta/)
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he sun still had a few more hours before it slid back under the horizon, but the midweek and its madness did not seem to stop visitors from filling the sprawling outdoor area at JIExpo Kemayoran, North Jakarta, on June 14.
As the masses jostled around, stalls were packed, halls swarmed and amusement rides filled to the brim.
“It’s so crowded here,” Sani, a father of three from Padalarang, West Java, told The Jakarta Post on the opening night of this year’s Jakarta Fair.
“There are more and more people as the evening goes on, I really am exhausted,” Sani said with a big smile betraying his spent limbs.
It was the first time he went to the fair.
A huge number of people are expected. Jakarta Fair has been hailed as the biggest, longest-running and most complete fair in Southeast Asia.
Held annually since 1968, it is the capital’s staple event that boasts a wide array of products, such as the culinary, automotive, sports, tech and fashion industry, just to name a few.
