Indonesia's first daughter in a lavish Javanese wedding
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Kahiyang Ayu is the only daughter of Indonesia's President Joko Widodo. Her lavish wedding is being held according to Javanese traditions and has the entire country glued to TV screens.
About 8,000 official guests have been invited, including many politicians, though no big international names are scheduled to attend.
The evening before the wedding, the president's family took their daughter through a string of several Javanese traditions.
The ceremony and parade took place on Wednesday in the president's home town of Surakarta -also known as Solo - in central Java.
The groom, property businessman Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution, is a member of the Batak ethnic group.
Kahiyang Ayu, 26, is one of three of Mr Widodo's children. She has one older and one younger brother.
The parade featured people wearing ethnic costumes from all parts of the diverse country.
President Widodo also hired 50 cycle rickshaws to carry some of his guests so that all levels of society could take part and also earn some money from it, correspondents say.
Joko Widodo was first mayor of Solo and then governor of Jakarta, before he became president in 2014. Often only referred to as Jokowi, he is immensely popular with Indonesians.
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