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EVEN before they enter the Asmoro bar, a nightclub in central Jakarta, patrons can hear the music. A regular beat—dang, dut, dang, dut—spills out, only slightly muffled, onto the street. Inside the ...

Singapore is a good place to explore cultures from all over South East Asia. The blogger at licencetospill took some of her friends to a Dangdut club. Dangdut is a form of music from Indonesia. The ...

Dangdut is a very popular music stream in Indonesia that is a mixture of traditional, Arabian, Indian and proto malay. The attractive part is at the entertaining rhytm, beauty of the singers and body ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Although seldom known outside South East Asia, dangdut is inescapable in Indonesia ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The comedy-drama film Mendadak Dangdut is making a comeback with a fresh version starring Anya Geraldine in the lead role. The original film, which was released in 2006, became ...

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol. 176, No. 1, Special Section: Pop Culture as Argument and Aspiration (2020), pp. 37-69 (33 pages) Dangdut, Indonesia’s most popular music genre, is a ...

At a packed festival in central Jakarta, hijab-clad sexagenarian singer Rien Djamain bursts into an upbeat track about nuclear destruction to a crowd of thousands, mostly young Indonesians. Behind the ...

Malaysian singer Zaleha Hamid, who rose to fame in the 1980s, died due to a lung infection at Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Bahru at about 8.30pm on June 19. She was 70. Her husband, Ungku ...

MELAKA: Blasting “dangdut” music on flashy trishaws will not help boost tourism, says a state exco member. Tourism, heritage, art and culture committee chairman Datuk Abdul Razak Abdul Rahman said ...