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Indonesia celebrated the arrival of the torch of the 18th Asian Games on its territory on Tuesday, especially to the city of Yogyakarta on a military aircraft.
About 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries will participate in the Asian Games, the second largest multi-sport event in the world after the summer Olympics
Indonesia will host the 18th edition of the Games in the cities of Jakarta and Palembang in South Sumatra from August 18th to September 2nd. The first torch was lit in 1962.
The torch was lit Sunday in New Delhi, the venue of the first edition of the Asian Games in 1951. Today, [1965652] The torch begins its journey to Indonesia Thursday, and will travel 18,000 km through 54 cities in the city of Indonesia. But to reach the capital Jakarta where the opening ceremony of the Games.
Yogyakarta was chosen to host the first stage of the "Torch Relay" because it has a great history, one of the kingdoms in Indonesia, and at the same time because it is famous as a tourist city , Indonesian Organizing Committee for the Asian Games
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