To celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Seoul and Jakarta, the KCC and the embassy held the Korea-Indonesia Students' Traditional Music Performance on July 26 in the city of Surakarta, on the central island of Java, and will hold a second one in Jakarta on July 28.
As part of "2023 Korean Cultural Festival," these events are being performed by students from the College of Music at Korea's Seoul National University and those of the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta.
Seoul National University students will play the daegeum (bamboo flute), gayageum (12-string zither), give a solo performance on the ajaeng (a bowed zither with 7 strings), and also present a modern gugak (Korean traditional music) performance. Indonesian students will perform traditional Indonesian music from Java and Sulawesi as well as modern music.
Using musical features of both countries, the students will perform a modern gugak song "Flowing," composed and interpreted by them, and "Indo Logo," traditional music from Indonesia's Makassar region.
Staff at the KCC in Indonesia said, "We hope this concert will contribute to boosting cultural exchanges and friendship among students from both nations."
