Journal Article

Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta

Wallach, Jeremy

2008

Overview

Wallach looks at the development of a dedicated nationwide punk movement in the Republic of Indonesia during the 1990s. Indonesia is seldom a topic of conversation in Western punk circles. Yet it is home to what is almost certainly the largest punk movement in Southeast Asia, and one of the largest in the world. Following their exposure in the mid 1990s to commercially hyped groups such as Green Day, Rancid, and the Offspring, Indonesian youth in cities such as Jakarta, Denpasar and Bandung began to build informal grassroots networks of bands, local fanzines, small independent record labels, and merchandisers dedicated to the production and distribution of punk music and ideology. These networks overlapped with those associated with other so-called \"underground\" rock genres, including metal, gothic, and industrial, which had surfaced at roughly the same time.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: Anthropology / Asia / Authoritarianism / Bands / Class / Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore / Conversation / Developing countries / Ethnic Studies / Ethnology / Ethnomusicology / Gamelan music / Grass roots movement / Ideology / Indonesia / Indonesians / Jakarta / Java / Lifestyle / Metals / Music / Music semiology / Musical performance / Musicology / Popular music / Punk culture / Punk rock music / Semiotic signs / Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity / Social structure and social relations / South Asian studies / Southeast Asian culture / Subculture / Subcultures / Swastikas / Youth culture