The Beijing Olympics torch was paraded behind closed doors Tuesday at an invitation-only event in Jakarta held under blanket security, where it spluttered out before having to be re-lit.


Even before the relay began police broke up a rally by pro-Tibet activists outside the sprawling national stadium complex where the event was held, closed to the public and protected by hundreds of security personnel.
About 100 protesters wearing "Free Tibet" T-shirts were carrying banners reading "No human rights no Olympics" when police moved in, dragging nine away for questioning.
All were quickly released, except for a Dutch man who was taken to Jakarta police headquarters.
"Police have not said anything until now, I don't know what is happening," he told AFP by telephone from the police station.
The protest came three hours ahead of the start of the heavil restricted relay event, which was kept away from open roads at China's request, officials said.
Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo launched the Jakarta leg of the torch's world relay before a carefully selected crowd of a few thousand cheering onlookers, who reportedly included 1,000 Chinese students.
The flame, meant to symbolise the spirit of the Games, went out and had to be re-lit seconds after the start of the relay in the cavernous stadium itself.
The event ended about 90 minutes later when Indonesia's sports committee chief handed the flame, contained in a lantern, to Chinese athletes who will take it to Australia for the next relay on Thursday.
Officials had wanted to parade the flame, making its first ever visit to Indonesia, through the capital's traffic-clogged streets and Chinatown but the plans were changed radically after "coordination" with Beijing.
China has been keen to prevent further embarrassing human rights protests like those that marred previous relay legs in Europe and the United States.
"The area has been sterilized and now only those with an invitation or the proper ID cards can enter," Asep Dayat, a policeman at the scene, told AFP earlier.
Some 100 uninvited students walked about two kilometres (1.2 miles) from their high school in south Jakarta to the sports complex grounds in the hope of getting in but were rejected at the gate by security guards, ElShinta radio reported.
"We are all disappointed," one of the students, Zaini, told the radio.
Eighty people from all walks of life were scheduled to take turns carrying the torch along a seven-kilometre route around the complex.
Torch bearers included Tourism Minister Jero Wacik, Chinese Ambassador Lan Linjun, Sports and Youth Minister Adhyaksa Dault and badminton world champion Taufik Hidayat.
Rights activists said Indonesia had buckled under Chinese pressure to quash protesters angry at Beijing's rule over Tibet, which it "liberated" in 1951 a year after sending in troops.
"We are very saddened by the way the Olympics are being handled at this time," said Gatot, of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation.
"The move to restrict the torch relay is against the Olympic spirit of openness, togetherness and respect for others."
Protests against Chinese rule rocked Tibet last month in one of the worst outbreaks of violence there since China seized control of the Himalayan region.
In China, thousands of people have targeted outlets of a French retailer after pro-Tibet demonstrators interrupted the French leg of the torch relay.
Chinese officials have meanwhile reportedly urged pro-Beijing supporters to turn out in force in Canberra to counter-balance pro-Tibet demonstrators.
Angry protests have met the relay in London, Paris and San Francisco, while other host countries have had to beef up security or scale back the planned route