clipped from www.thejakartapost.com

“Halloween is the day you knock on people’s doors and shout ‘Trick or treat’ and they give you candy,” said six-year-old Shaska at a Halloween party on Friday afternoon in Kemang, South Jakarta.

Although Halloween is usually only celebrated in the West, it has grown in popularity in Indonesia, thanks in part to the prevalence of international television channels.

Faza, dressed up as a bumblebee, nagged his mother to take him to a Halloween party and asked Shaska to come along.

His bumblebee costume, however, won him second prize in the Best Costume contest. A Dracula impersonator won first prize while a girl dressed as Snow White, and who wouldn’t let go of her father, won third prize. A red devil, a green witch, Spiderman and Superman could not have cared less about the contest, caught up as they were in a game of hide-and-seek.