An impassioned plea for dangdut music on TPI and an ode to its earthy soulful charms.

Whither dangdut mania? Financial woes of TV station TPI puts dangdut music under threat.

Madrotter on Bandung rockers "Homicide", their music and battles with the FPI.

A top ten of classic soppy Indonesian love songs by female pop singers.

What lonely women want, what adults get up to, Sasak singers get in trouble for suggesting answers.

Aura Kasih, singer and very talented young lady, prefers to wear sexy clothes.

Agnes Monica annoys Malaysians for unusual reasons, with her new hit song Allah Peduli.

Signs of the end of the world are read at a dangdut concert in Blora, while spectators are barely moved.

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later "mediation" in West Java, as Ross finds out.

Achmad and his ukulele, its strings, what it is made of, various other interesting facts.

Ahmad Dhani's theories on how rock music can prevent your son becoming gay.

How the Sharia authorities of Aceh persuade citizens to get on with their religious obligations.

The MUI attempts to chase the regent of Purwakarta out of town, for a musical analogy.

Ross worries that TVRI is cheating the nation out of seeing Dewi Persik and Wong Telu.

Julia Perez distributes free condoms with her latest musical masterpiece, "Kamasutra".

The lyrics and music of Slank's song "Gosip Jalanan" (Word on the Street).

Patronising neo-colonialist attitudes by westerners in Bali.

Indonesian music talent, traditional and modern.

Malaysian theft of the "Rasa Sayange" song.

Ross on Metro TV's Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

Singer Rebecca Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh.

Dangdut dancing and singing in Cianjur for independence day.

Over and out at IM for a while, and Eka Deli.

Sundanese cultural groups are vanishing.

Rock group Dewa's lead guitarist Ahmad Dhani is featured in the Washington Post.

The music and instruments of Indonesian Gamelan.

All girl pop group, "Moluccas", had intended to title their second album "Naked" but re-thought the matter, not because they realised that it was in bad taste, but for fear of police action amid the new climate of moral strictness in Jakarta.