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	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends a jury and a public vote where each votes 1,3,5,7 and 10 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. Another difference of JrARFOS and ARFOS is that instead of two songs, each region only sends one song to the competition.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below. Regions with (N/A) conductors either only used their instruments or used playback.

Region	Conductor
Zafizamarrah	Muhammad Yusril Affan
Basna	(N/A)
Tel Hadiv	Haresh Mayelin
Pyalivostok	Misha Robenovich
Bristol	Carlson James
Aramna	(N/A)
Pantabang Islands	Lilla Merie
Mosin-Nagan	(N/A)
Daya Island	Eli Markonin