Jakarta City Philharmonic -JCP, a city orchestra concert initiated by the Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) along with the Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) holds an orchestra concert in 2018. This year, the JCP concert is held eight times at Taman Ismail Marzuki Jakarta Theater and starting on April 18th. The Music Committee of the Jakarta Arts Council, Aksan Sjuman in a press conference held in Jakarta on Wednesday, April 18th said that the public interest to attend this concert is very high. There are a number of online reservations reaching 1,700 reservations. Meanwhile, the capacity of seats is available as many as 1,200 seats. Due to this limited seating, the DKJ has to cancel 700 reservations.
“Because of the very high people’s interest, this month we must cancel 700 reservations. This building is only able to accommodate 1,200 people. So, 700 people from total 1,700 persons have to be cancelled,” Aksan said.
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He also added that during the two years of this concert in the title, there was a significant increase in visitors. In 2016, this concert is only visited by 200 people, while in 2017, it was visited by about 1,400 people. (Egi/Trans by Rezha)