France Bastille Day: Indonesia opens military parade as the guest of honour • FRANCE 24 English

description. We’re going to cross live to our reporter Cla Pak who’s standing by at the parade there. Uh Claire, uh you’re going to talk to us a little bit about those 450 uh Indonesian military personnel who are going to be opening uh the ground troops parade. Indonesian troops are opening the parade and here they are behind me. That is the military drum band, the Indonesian military drum band. You see the impressive percussion skills of their headear as well. Take a listen. [Music] Coming up behind the drum band, we have soldiers from the Indonesian Army, Navy, and Air Force. I was speaking a little earlier on to a battalion commander from the Indonesian Army. He said he was extremely proud to be here today marching with his troops, Sound Shiz. They’ve been practicing hard. They’ve been working hard and as you can see they are locked step perfectly in time marching down the Shanza as the crowds

Swooping warplanes, axe-carrying warriors, a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower and fireworks in nearly every French town… France is celebrating its national holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysees, the most iconic avenue in Paris. Details by FRANCE 24 reporter, Claire Paccalin.
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  6. Bastille Day is hands down one of the best times to be in Paris! Free concerts, fireworks, museums — and I did it all without spending a single euro 😍🇫🇷

  10. The song they play are called "Maju Tak Gentar" which means "Move Forward Fearlessly"

    This is a song used by indonesian military and paramilitary to boost morale since this song talking about the calls to protect your own homeland that invaded or about to be invaded by other country. It is also belong to national song cathegory and taught in school to teaching the children about nationalism"

  23. Viva Bastille Day 2025

    It's a parade of Indonesian 3 branches of arm forces and police cadets, and the band is playing "March on Fearlessly."

    Let us defend our rights while under attack. Let us show perseverance and bravado courage to prevail.

    Thank you and warm regards to the kind-hearted French people.

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