Jokowi Invites British Royal to Come to World Royal Heritage Festival

BERITAJAKARTA.COM — 19/09/2013 18:56:01 The coming of Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, to Jakarta, is used by Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to invite British royal to attend the World Royal Heritage Festival which will be held by Jakarta Provincial Government on 5-8 December, 2013, in Monas, Central Jakarta. Jokowi admitted that through Prince Andrew, he verbally asked the British royal to come to the World Royal Heritage Festival. Not only that, he also planned to invite all monarchies around the world. As an honor, the invitation will be in the form of classic paper-roll letter. “I was telling him (Prince Andrew) about the upcoming festival. We want to invite royal families to come to the World Royal Heritage Festival on December 5-8. Later, the invitation will be like old days letter, the one that is rolled,” stated Jokowi, Thursday (9/19). Jokowi really hopes the British royal family would participate in the festival. He even asked special request for them to bring along British royal guards. “They (British royal) will send representatives. I don’t know yet who the representatives would be, but they will send representatives. We also requested for Buckingham Palace’s guards (to participate in the festival),” he uttered. According to Jokowi, the World Royal Heritage Festival is held to show the world about Indonesia’s royal and cultural richness, as well as to promote the city of Jakarta to the world. As many as 130 palaces (Keraton) in Indonesia will take part in this festival. “The more the better. We want to show the world that Indonesia has big potentials, which are 130 indigenous stakeholder palaces that could build brands,” he explained. Besides British royal, Jakarta Provincial Government will also invite other monarchies all around the world. Unfortunately, Jokowi did not specifically mention which monarchies to be invited.