Gibran Invites Solo Residents To Hold Activities Commemorating August 17th

SEMARANG - Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka invited residents to hold activities in commemoration of August 17 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Please, if you want to repent, have a competition in your village, if you want a ceremony in your respective place, please," he said in Solo, quoted from Antara, Monday, August 15.

Gibran also allowed every school to hold a ceremony for the Indonesian Independence Day, but with due observance of health protocols.

For the activities of the Solo City Government, he said, a ceremony will also be held on August 17 at the Sriwedari Field in Solo.

"It's been two years without the ceremony. (To commemorate August 17) there will also be a construction parade," he said.

However, he is still reluctant to provide details of the activities at the development parade.

"Don't divulge everything. Later on the D day, there will be a series of everything," he said.

Regarding the Independence Day activities that have the potential to cause a crowd of people, he has no problem with it.

"Yesterday it was always busy, there was APG, there was a concert (Dream Theater), but we still have to progress," he said.