Festival Indonesia 2013 Day 2 – Japarta Report!

Hello once again, everyone! Today, I went to Festival Indonesia 2013, day-2. (September 22nd) .

After yesterday’s event (on 21st), a fan’s voice came up on 2ch, the biggest internet forum in Japan,

“Don’t make 3 members humiliated. Let’s go to support JKT48 tomorrow!”

Thanks for that, today many fans had gathered in front of the stage before JKT48’s performance. And it is Sunday today, the total audience were more than yesterday’s in the event area.

* Yesterday I was involved in fans in front of the stage and I estimated we were about 200 people. But today, an objective viewpoint from the side of the stage, fans in front area was about 200 people. So, fans in front area yesterday should be a little less than today’s.

Fans’ Mix for Overture was clearly powerful today, I believe 3 members were encouraged.

Guys, Have you got the atmosphere of the second day event from Youtube and Wotaliano’s article? Yes, as one of the bridge between Indonesia and Japan, JKT48 played a big part in Festival Indonesia 2013.

Appearance of JKT48 this time was just one of the programs in Festival Indonesia 2013. Although we, fans, already known their performance would be in a short time, we got excited. Because we could see JKT48 closely, and it was the first time that JKT48 perform for an open area event in Japan.

On the other hand, 3 members who came to Japan without Japanese members looked nervous behind the stage. However, once they were on the stage, they performed proudly.

Ve
She has modesty and smile of Japanese like style. But once she danced, she changed herself totally, even showed sexy atmosphere and fascinated fans.

Sendy
As her reputation we knew, oh no! More than her reputation we knew, her singing skill was awesome. Also, we saw her excellent skill to control the talk session.

Nabilah
Her errant brightness and her power to involve surrounds are amazing. It is unbelievable she is the youngest member in JKT48.

Oh yeah, when Sendy answered “Shabu-Shabu” in their Q&A session, Nabila tapped Sendy’s shoulder and laughed. I took its meaning like “it was last night’s dinner, right?. You love it so much, sister Sen!” It is fun to look they act as if their private life. Hahaha.

At the end, they performed Fortune Cookie yang Mencinta, danced together with the embassy staffs and fans, they got applause. Families, couples, elderly audience in the event area also smiled.

Then, after their performance they moved to the booth of Western Union to handshake with fans and to serve WU’s brochure by hands.

It was not crowded yesterday, but today it was full of fans about their bodies and shoulders hit each other.

Nabilah was in charge of Handshake, Sendy and Ve were serving brochures. Fans moved to deep emotion because in front of them there were real members whom fans had been watching just in YouTube until now. I know some of the Japanese fans happened to change “Oshi-men” immediately because they saw real members for the first time.

This event was wonderful enough present for Japanese fans.

But a few unfortunate things too.

Information was not clear until just before the 3 members came. So, it seemed there were many fans who could not arrange their time for coming to Roppongi, Tokyo. Such as fans not living in Tokyo area, fans working on the weekend and fans who need enough time to consider a strategy to escape from his family activity. Hahaha.

Actually it was a big chance for Japanese fans to meet JKT48 members (They are “Idol you can meet”, right?) in Japan, we wish if the final information would come a little faster. Of course we understand JKT48’s performance is just one program in Festival Indonesia 2013. The cause of late information may come from such as the coordination with the organizers, maybe from something unknown to us this time.

Further, one thing for us. Well, do you guys remember a video which shows many fans left from TV event area after JKT48’s performance? These 2 days, it was a little similar to that case, including me… Appearance of JKT48 was highlight of the event, but there were also many other performers, and there were many audience looking forward to watch them. I think we should stay there and have time to know more Indonesian cultures.

Sendy, Ve, and Nabilah, thanks for your great job. Otsukare sama deshita!

Remembering again, we could say this is nothing but the first step of JKT48’s “Go International”, right? As the first step for “Go international”, it is no doubt this event was successful.

Thanks organizers, sponsors and related people, for giving us to meet and see JKT48 closely. We hope JKT48 appears in Festival Indonesia 2014 again.

Oh yeah, Sendy sings “Kawa no Nagare no Yoni”, it was Japanese Sendy fans’ dream. It has already come true. It seems JOT pays attention to Japanese JKT48 fans opinion via “various way”. Hahaha.

Now, JKT48 fans in Japan, let’s wait and looking forward to the next chance. Nay, like Sendy’s case, our voice itself can bring the chance.

I myself hope to watch a special performance of JKT48 using AKB theater. Hahaha.