ATS1346 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Rhoma Irama, Abdurrahman Wahid, Dangdut
25 May 2018
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• Dance style: goyang negebor – drilling dance
o Gyration of hips at break neck speed
• Indonesion Council declared dancing and costume against pornography
o Wanted to block performance
• Artistic pratice was used as forum to express opinions about wide range of
social and cultural issues
o Islamic leader Emha Ainun Nadjiib “Inul’s rear end is our collective
face”
• Dance – “fernom-Inul”
• Dangdut – Indonesian pop music
• More fruitful
• Inul’s singing was punctuated by sexualised screams, grimaces, gasps and
yelps
o Light pop
• Fast tempos
• Sundanese elements – bamboo flute
• Moderate and Islamic groups supported Inul
o As well as democratic and pluralistic civil Islam
o Former president of Indonesia (Gus Dur)
• Hard line groups take stance against her
o Muslim organisations against Inul
o MUI – most vocal Muslim organisation
▪ Formed in 1975 by eer government
▪ Purpose: To mobalise support among Muslims for governments
development policies
▪ Founders: university educated
▪ Operatures through authoritative opinions
▪ Invoked Fatwa U-287 (2001): condem Inul – pornography
• Forbidding sexual acts outside marriage
• Forbids women to publicly show parts of the body other
than the face, palms of hand, and bottom of foot
• Forbids tight clothes that reveal curves of female’s
body, use of cosmetics and vocal sounds or words that
increase men’s sexual desires
• Dangdust superstar Rhoma Irama
o Banned by government
o Against regime of Suharto
o Dangdut courted by government officials as music of New Order
o Spoke out against Inul
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