Temple Groups Bring a Taste of Taiwan to Indonesia

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Two Tainan temples have sent delegations to Indonesia to introduce local people to traditional temple culture in Taiwan and the ways Taiwan celebrates the Lantern Festival.

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00:00In the Indonesian city of Bogor, not far from Jakarta, people are celebrating in the streets

00:07as the Lantern Festival arrives.

00:09It's a day also celebrated in Taiwan.

00:11And to mark this year's event, two temples from Taiwan's south have sent contingents

00:15here to give the party a Taiwanese flair.

00:20They've brought their temple deities with them, and they're excited to introduce their

00:24beliefs to local Indonesians.

00:35And there are other aspects of Taiwanese temple culture on display, including face-painted

00:40dancers performing in formation, a style of religious performance called jia jiang.

00:57Local reception has been warm, both among Chinese Indonesians, who already share many

01:02of these beliefs, and local Muslims, who may be experiencing this culture for the first

01:06time.

01:15And this is not the terminal stop on the temple's visit to Indonesia.

01:18They're also traveling to the city of Bandung, about a hundred kilometers to the east, until

01:23February 15th, further spreading the spirit of cultural exchange between these two Asian

01:28countries.

01:29Hank Hsu and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.

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