APPLAUSE echoed out as two hundred dancers of katreji (quadrille), a dance unique to Maluku, finished their performance. The dance was the opening performance in an event celebrating National Family Day, which was held at Merdeka Square, Ambon, Friday morning two weeks ago. On the east side of the Square, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and scores of cabinet ministers had just arrived and taken their seats in the honorary grandstand.

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