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Young R&B singer Rihanna cancelled a concert she was
scheduled to perform in Jakarta
on Friday and which had sold out due to fears over her own safety, organizers
of the event said.
Rihanna is currently on her Good Girl Gone Bad Tour and the
gig scheduled for Jakarta, Indonesia was already promising, as
all 6,000 tickets had been sold. The last-minute cancellation was due to fears
that she could endanger herself.
Dive Poernomo, a spokeswoman for Showmaster Live, the event
organizer, said Rihanna changed her mind while still in neighboring Australia, when the country reissued a travel
warning which urged its citizens to reconsider plans to visit Indonesia after the weekend executions of three
Islamic militants convicted in the 2002 Bali
bombings.
The three had been involved in nightclub bombings which
killed some 200 persons in 2002. There was a threat of attacks after their
executions. There have been no major bomb attacks in Indonesia since 2005 but the
country is still considered at risk.
Poernomo said the event organizer hoped to hold another
concert in January.
Rihanna, whose “Umbrella” single has probably been seared
into the circumvolutions of most of the planet’s population since its release
last year, is currently in the midst of a world tour in support of her “Good
Girl Gone Bad” album.
The tour kicked off in September in Vancouver,
Canada and either has taken
or will take Rihanna across North America, Europe, Australia
and Asia.
“Umbrella” won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung
Collaboration at the 50th annual Grammy Awards and was also nominated in the Record
of the Year and Song of the Year categories. It features rap mogul Jay-Z.
Rihanna’s album has sold more than 6 million copies
worldwide. Her supporting acts so far on the tour have been Akon, Ciara, David
Jordan and Chris Brown.
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