pembukaan sea games

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[edit] Countdown

The official countdown to the games' opening ceremony has started since November 11, 2010, marking a year before the games. The countdown clock is located nearby the Ampera Bridge, the landmark of Palembang.^[38]
Three hundred days before the opening ceremony, a special event showing Indonesian art performances and featuring a number of Indonesian famous celebrity was held at Teater Tanah Airku, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta. During the event, the official logo of the games was launched publicly.^[39]

[edit] Opening Ceremony

The athletes from host country Indonesia marching during 26th SEA Games opening ceremony, Friday, 11-11-2011. Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium, Palembang, Indonesia.

In 10 November 2010 in Palembang, Indonesian Minister of Sport and Youth begin a year countdown to SEA Games opening.^[40] In 10 November 2011 (a day before opening ceremony) the Sea Games torch flame ceremony was held along Musi River in front of Kuto Besak fort. The opening ceremony officially began at 7:00 pm on 11 November 2011 in Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium. The date was chosen because its unique numbers 11-11-2011. The main event of opening ceremony with musical and dance performances, also athlete march from participating nations, will be held in Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium. The mass dance performance featured "The Glory of Srivijaya" as the theme.^[41][42]
Indra Yudhistira, the director and conceptor of the opening ceremony worked together with music director, Erwin Gutawa and choreographers such as Ari Tulang, Deddy Pudja, Hartati, and Alex Hassim, as well as percussionist Ade Rudiana. The Games' theme song, Together We'll Shine was sung by three Southeast Asian female singers, dubbed as Southeast Asian divas, Agnes Monica of Indonesia, Jaclyn Victor of Malaysia and KC Concepcion of the Philippines.^[43]. Numerous other Indonesian singers was also given the spotlight during the ceremony.
Unlike other opening ceremonies of previous games, Palembang presented an artistic vehicle parade and breathtaking theatrics in the lighting of the flame ^[44]. The eternal flame from Mrapen entered the stadium as a continuation of the Palembang relay leg from the outside. The Southeast Asian Games torch was relayed around the stadium by 4 athletes, and was finally passed on to Susi Susanti, 1992 Summer Olympics gold medalist in Badminton.
Susi Susanti, who was suspended by wires, then appeared to run horizontally along the walls of the stadium through to the Olympic cauldron, which at this moment was still not shown. As he ran along the upper wall of the stadium, the projection displayed a scroll opening ahead of him, on which was beamed footages of previous torch relays around the world. At the final moment, a spotlight revealed the final resting place of the Southeast Asian Games flame, which had appeared during the torch run. A colossal torch situated at the top of the stadium was lit by a proportionately large Constructor.
A flurry of spectacular fireworks of various colours and shapes, some projecting Olympic rings, others forming hoops, flower outwards, fountain or float down, accompanied the ending of the ceremony. The opening ceremony started broadcasting at at 9:52 pm local time, which was later than the time originally planned: 9:30 pm local time.
The Southeast Asian Games's official theme which start song "Kita Bisa" was composed by Addie MS with words by Jozef Cleber was performed in the opening ceremony by Dudi Oris, Pradikta Wicaksono, Ello, Judika Nalon Abadi Sihotang, Terryana Fatiah, Astrid Sartiasari and Lala Karmela was accompanied by Victorian Phillaharmonic Orchestra was official theme song of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games. At the opening of the ceremony Lala Karmela performed the Southeast Asian Games song "Kita Bisa" just before the torch was extinguished.