Riots At The Bring Me The Horizon Concert Create Hard And Expensive Licensing?

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Kadri Mohamad, a musician known as The Singing Lawyer, expressed his opinion about the riots that occurred at the Bring Me The Horizon concert in Jakarta.

Through his Instagram account, Kadri Mohamad uploaded a video of the crowd chaos that went up on stage after learning that the Bring Me The Horizon concert on Friday, November 10 night was stopped.

"This happened again. I don't know the details of what happened. Artists stop playing for what? Stop playing on stage is the same as being termination of the contract," wrote Kadri Mohamad in the description of the upload, seen Monday, November 13.

Who violated the contract? Is the promoter because it doesn't provide Top Quality technical facilities? Security? DLL audience density? Or the artist is arbitrary," he continued.

Kadri highlighted how the contents of the contract between Ravel Entertainment and Bring Me The Horizon caused chaos because of the dissatisfied audience.

"I don't know the details of the contract, whether the contract allows if there is technical damage to the artist, it can be attracted directly to the contract on stage," said Kadri.

Termine contact unilaterally, there is a penalty or damage impact... The promoter, if you have a reason, can even claim to the artist. Especially if there is a riot effect, fortunately there are no casualties. Therefore, the promoter needs to be careful reviewing articles like this. Even though I know the promoter doesn't have a bargaining for article negotiations," he continued.

Furthermore, Kadri highlighted the need for music promoter certification, especially for those who present world famous musicians.

Kadri also saw the chaos that occurred making licensing for concerts not easy, and the quality of concerts in Indonesia was lower than neighboring countries.

"But if the promoter is wrong, it is indeed necessary for audience class promoters to be above 1000 people, for example, especially those who bring in outside artists, to be certified for both capacity, quality and reputation. So that there are no cases like this," wrote Kadri Mohamad.

"This is what makes concert permits difficult and expensive because they have the potential for chaos. And... This is what can't raise the level of organizing our concert to compete with Singapore," he said.