Junior AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1998

Junior AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1998
Dates
Final	19th of November 1998
Host
Venue	Independence Hall, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, ZF
Presenter(s)	Hasnurrani Imrazan
Musical director	'Amran Isbanna
Directed by	'Ishana Ma'ruf
Executive supervisor	Nissa Marhanaruddin
Executive producer	Usmaruddin Mada
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah
Participants
Number of entries	9
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends a jury and a public vote where each votes 1-5 for the best 5 songs

Junior AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1998 is the first edition of the annual Junior AleziRadio Festival of Songs, which was held in Independence Hall of Metropolitan Zafizamarrah of the region of Zafizamarrah. The competition was born from a petition from schools throughout North Alezia asking for a "child" version of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs, in order to "raise competitive friendship inbetween regions, and to promote each other's regional culture in the midst of the economic boom".

It was then decided that children from age 8-16 can compete in the Junior AleziRadio Festival of Songs with it being held in 19th of November of every year. The decision to hold the contest on that date was due to the fact that it happened on the start of Astalji (Winter Festival), which is a national holiday in North Alezia (and eventually the Alezian Union) that happened from November to January the next year.

For the first edition, AleziRadio opened bidding for regions and territories who wanted to host the competition. This time, Zafizamarrah (City of Hashama, City of Oldport-Newport, and Metropolitan City of Zafizamarrah) and Daya Island (Aaren) submitted their bids to the ARFOS committee. Eventually, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah was selected to host the competition.

This competition is also the first time that Internet Voting was introduced, earlier than it's sister show, AleziRadio Festival of Songs which only introduced internet voting in 1999. This competition is also different from ARFOS where it's now optional to use the orchestra. JrARFOS rules only allows children from ages 13-16 conducting the song. Also, in JrARFOS, each region only sends one song compared to the adult version's two song per region.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Zafizamarrah	Muhammad Yusril Affan
Basna	Yanda Ahmad*
Tel Hadiv	Haresh Mayelin
Pyalivostok	Misha Robenovich
Bristol	Carlson James
Aramna	Isabella Louvigners*
Pantabang Islands	Lilla Merie
Mosin-Nagan	Mina Gargana
Daya Island	Eli Markonin*

"*" = only one of the songs sent used the orchestra, the other used playback or its own instrument.

Commentators

The list of commentators can be seen below.

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	AleziRadio	English: Mukhlis Fattah (AR-P1), Izzat Nawanda (AR-TV1, aba.co.az Live Streaming) Arabic : Nurhani Mariana (AR-P2), Ishaq Bari (AR-TV1, broadcasted a day after the live competition)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Nazlan Imran (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Haziri Farid (RZ-PB)
Pantabang Islands	Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi	Alezian : Eli'i Ma'una'i Salem (RZ/P A) Dutch : Berrie Malvejke (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Eshmana Meshdeza (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Johnny Berry (RRB) French : Eleanora Roufelles (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Belya Navokovich (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Putra Jauhari (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Olga Drenishvili (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Alla Marin (RP / DS) Swedish : Dennis Smanvensk (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Eidellais Malvalais (ARR)

Participating Entries and Results

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	Hani Yusamuraddin	أعمل لي معروفا	Do Me A Favour	Arabic
02	Basna	Nissa	Aku dan Kau	Me and You	Indonesian
03	Tel Hadiv	Shezan Na'eshma	האם אתה יכול?	Can You?	Hebrew
04	Pyalivostok	Eli Charleta	Ничего больше	Nothing Else	Russian
05	Bristol	Benjamin Carl	Singing Songs	-none-	English
06	Aramna	Eleadora, Nels, Berenoia	Internet	-none-	Aramnan
07	Pantabang Islands	Ma'ura Na'usani Salem	'Aoha'e po'uno 'ae pono'opo'o	No Need To Worry	Alezian
08	Mosin-Nagan	Milan Beria	ძლიერი	The Strong	Georgian
09	Daya Island	Eri Maakara	Minä, sinä, he, me	I, You, They, We	Finnish