The success of Konferensi Musik Indonesia 2025 as a pivotal milestone or its status as another missed opportunity is contingent upon the government's readiness to execute these recommendations with the same rigor, collaborative spirit, and stakeholder involvement that facilitated their development.
Alih-alih menjadi instrumen pemberontakan dan perlawanan, hip-hop justru digunakan JHF sebagai instrumen yang melanggengkan kekuasaan.
In Indonesia, books discussing music as a science can be counted on the fingers of one hand. More specifically, it is a book that discusses music journalism.
What if it turns out that the decline in local cultural values and our society’s greater recognition of foreign culture is triggered by ourselves? Our cultural thinkers are too busy boasting about the goodness of their culture and accusing globalization of being the culprit, reluctant to give birth to new and fresh memes/ideas that could benefit society.
Solving the problems plaguing the music industry should be the priority of the musicians who win the legislative elections next February. If we cannot hope that they will bring changes to the industry, why should people vote for them in the first place?
I interpret the Berkarat (Rusty) album by Burgerkill as a manifesto from the figure of Ivan Scumbag. The real form of frustration and incomparable fatigue that he felt.
For Ethnomusicology, this shift means that fundamental changes in power structures, worldviews, academia, and university systems must be analyzed as a confrontation with colonialism. The proposed decolonizing approach to Ethnomusicology involves reflection on the philosophy and methodology that make up the discipline.
Let's criticize music and appreciate it better, learn to reason and cultivate feelings from music so that we can live as critical citizens who are keen to keep Indonesia moving in the right direction.
Kita tidak boleh membiarkan band perempuan di kancah musik Indonesia berkarya di jalan yang sunyi. Kita harus memberi apresiasi lebih pada mereka, memberikan ruang yang sama dan setara untuk mereka, dan membicarakan mereka sebagai bagian dari diskursus dan diskusi musik Indonesia. Kita harus berani membongkar hyper-masculinity dan budaya patriarki yang telanjur bercokol kokoh di semua lini kehidupan, termasuk di kancah musik.
Despite the regime change, Dialita's music may not be able to eradicate the stigma and eliminate the culture impunity. However, was not Dialita's original goal to target the younger generation? So, by listening to Dialita songs, we should be more historically literate and become more aware of our history. As founding president Soekarno once stated: “Never forget history”. We should never forget the 1965 humanitarian tragedy.
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