US rock band Linkin Park performing at Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta. Wednesday night’s concert was the second time the band performed here. The Grammy Award-winning band previously played a show in Jakarta in 2004. (Agency Photo)
Nu metal rockers Linkin Park performed to an eager crowd on Wednesday night at Bung Karno Stadium in South Jakarta.
The show was one of the final stops on the band’s A Thousand Suns world tour, which kicked off last October. After two more stops in Bangkok and Singapore, the members of Linkin Park will return home to the United States.
Wednesday night’s show was Linkin Park’s second appearance in Indonesia. It first performed here in 2004.
Fans Donie Ajo, 21, and Galang Ajieprayoga, 20, remembered being too young to attend the 2004 show in Ancol, North Jakarta. They said they lived outside the capital and they had not been allowed to skip school to go to the concert.
Galang, now a university student, said there was no way he was going to miss Wednesday’s show and the chance finally to see his favorite band play live.
“I’m even a member of LPU,” he said, referring to Linkin Park Underground, the band’s official fan club.
To pay for the concert ticket, which cost between Rp 550,000 and Rp 2.5 million ($60 and $280), Galang said he was prepared to sell his mobile phone, though it didn’t actually come to that. He said he managed to get together enough money to secure himself a good seat.
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