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Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:29
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VP MARKS 67TH BIRTHDAY WITH ORPHANS, SMALL TRADERS
Jakarta, May 15 (ANTARA) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla observed his 67th birthday here on Friday at a get-together with orphans and merchants at the Tanah Abang traditional market.
Held on the eighth floor of the Tanah Abang Market building in Central Jakarta, Kalla's birthday commemoration was preceded by the offering of prayers with traders and orphans attending the ceremony, followed by candle blowing and birthday cake cutting.
On the occasion, the vice president was accompanied by Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and PT Priamanaya president director Djan Farid.
After the ceremony, hundreds of traders and visitors to the Tanah Abang market jostled with each other in a queue to shake hands with Kalla who later toured the market and had dialogs with other traders.
Kalla, the second child out of 17, was born on May 15,1942 in Watampone, South Sulawesi. His parents were Hadji Kalla, a local businessman and Athirah, a woman who sold Bugisnese silk for a living.
After completing school, Kalla attended the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar where he became active in h the Indonesian Student Action Front (KAMI), a student organization which supported General Suharto in his bid to gain power from President Sukarno and was elected as chairman of its South Sulawesi branch.
He also had the beginnings of a political career, becoming a member of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) and chairman of the youth division of Golkar when the party was still a joint secretariat (Sekber) of a number of socio-political mass organizations.***
Held on the eighth floor of the Tanah Abang Market building in Central Jakarta, Kalla's birthday commemoration was preceded by the offering of prayers with traders and orphans attending the ceremony, followed by candle blowing and birthday cake cutting.
On the occasion, the vice president was accompanied by Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and PT Priamanaya president director Djan Farid.
After the ceremony, hundreds of traders and visitors to the Tanah Abang market jostled with each other in a queue to shake hands with Kalla who later toured the market and had dialogs with other traders.
Kalla, the second child out of 17, was born on May 15,1942 in Watampone, South Sulawesi. His parents were Hadji Kalla, a local businessman and Athirah, a woman who sold Bugisnese silk for a living.
After completing school, Kalla attended the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar where he became active in h the Indonesian Student Action Front (KAMI), a student organization which supported General Suharto in his bid to gain power from President Sukarno and was elected as chairman of its South Sulawesi branch.
He also had the beginnings of a political career, becoming a member of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) and chairman of the youth division of Golkar when the party was still a joint secretariat (Sekber) of a number of socio-political mass organizations.***
