REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SAMOSIR - About two thousand amateur swimmers and singers will enliven Lake Toba Festival 2013 on September 8-14 in North Sumatra. They will perform in main traditional ceremony, Mangebang Solu Bolon. 

Solu Bolon is a large rowboat which accommodate many people of Batak wading through water of Lake Toba in trade or even war. 

"Mangebang Solu Bolon is conducted by 17 rowboats," Head of Social Affairs, Employment, Youth and Sports in Samosir Regency, Waston Simbolon said in a written statement on Friday.

Ceremony of the first rowboat launching into water known as Habatahon, a Batak ritual that has been almost forgotten. Simbolon said Mangebang Solu Bolon tradition should be preserved and well maintained.

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