Lady Gaga vs Heavy Metal: The Confusing World of Pop in Indonesia
FOR THE BBC – CLICK HERE FOR FULL BBC DOCUMENTARY VIA THE BBC HOMEPAGE – SYNOPSIS – Lady Gaga was banned but Death Metal is cool –…
Iwan Fals: The Voice of Social Justice in Indonesia
Words by Maria Bakkalapulo (Twitter @mbakkalapulo) *Original story broadcast on The World (PRI/BBC). The late 1990s was a time of upheaval in Indonesia. The government of President…
NAT GEO MUSIC – RWMF 2012
This July Nat Geo Music correspondent Maria Bakkalapulo joined 20,000 festival-goers in the Borneo jungle for for the 15th anniversary of Malaysia’s long-running Rainforest World Music…
TIME Magazine – Punk’s Last Refuge
Words by Maria Bakkalapulo – For the story published in TIME MAGAZINE, go to –CLICK HERE It’s after midnight in Jakarta and, below a highway overpass,…
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