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Youths get creative when it comes to cheering
Raucous: Home fans yell and beat balloon tubes while following the matches in Istora Senayan on Tuesday
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Raucous: Home fans yell and beat balloon tubes while following the matches in Istora Senayan on Tuesday. (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama) (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama)
Raucous: Home fans yell and beat balloon tubes while following the matches in Istora Senayan on Tuesday. (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama)
A group of youngsters was seen wearing similar outfits, red T-shirts with batik accents either stuck on the shirts or used as headbands. Some of them carried angklung (bamboo musical instrument) and cheering balloon tubes.
They tried to cheer and gesture in sync prior to one of the highlighted women's badminton singles matches on Tuesday, the second day of the 2013 Djarum Indonesia Open Superseries Premier.
During the tense match between Indonesia's Lindaweni Fanetri and India's second seed, Saina Nehwal, their cheering was one of the centerpieces of the game among a few other groups employing different cheering styles.
'In..Do..Ne..Sia', which sometimes switched to 'Lin..Da..We..Ni', was frequently yelled out by the group along with a four-time rhythmical tapping of the cheering balloon tubes, followed almost simultaneously by almost all the home spectators inside the Istora Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Senayan, Central Jakarta.
The stadium was less than half full, but the synchronized cheering of the supporters reverberated across the hall.
One group of fans comprised members of the badminton club from Bakrie University. They traveled to the stadium not only to support the Indonesian players up against world-class shuttlers, but also to participate in the cheering competition held by the PB Djarum badminton club.
'There are 21 of us here today. Since we are all badminton enthusiasts, we want to take part in the cheering competition as well as to make the atmosphere merrier,' Mega Silvia, 20, coordinator of the group told The Jakarta Post.
She said they did not make any special preparation for the event as they already had their club items, such as the T-shirts and angklung.
They only added some red and white stickers on their cheeks and made a paper banner to tie to their bodies.
The banner, which read 'Merah Putih Pasti Bisa' (the Red and White can do it) could only be seen in full when they stood up along four rows of seats.
A team of supporters from UIN Jakarta had a Betawi theme, with its 20 members wearing baju koko (high-collared, long-sleeved shirts) and checkered sarong, and the girls wearing kebaya encim outfits. Their cheers, however, did not really stand out from those of other teams
Arif Penyu, coordinator for the supporters' competition, said this was only the second time the contest had been held, to make the event livelier.
'There are three things that we are looking for: creativity, costume and cohesion,' he said.
This year, 20 teams participated in the contest, 10 teams fewer than last year.
'But this year, we have participants from Bandung,' he said.
Participants of the competition were given free passes to the tournament.
The teams compete for a total Rp 30 million (US$3,032) in prize money and trophies.
