Seeing The Similarity Of Songs From Sabang To Merauke With The French National Anthem

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JAKARTA - Social media was enlivened with a video showing several Indonesian people singing songs From Sabang to Merauke during the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, an instrumental version was sung.

Meanwhile, the incident occurred at the 2023 Aquabike Jetski World Championship in Balige, Toba Regency, North Sumatra, on Sunday 26 November 2023.

La Marseillaise was created by Claude Joseph Allahant de Lisle in 1792 under the title Chant de ekurre pour l'Armmen du Rhin. This song was made after the declaration of war between France and Austria.

Then, La Marseillaise was used as the national anthem for Premiere R\"ublice in 1795.

Meanwhile, the song From Sabang to Merauke is a national song composed by R. Suharjo in 1961. This song illustrates how Indonesia is an archipelagic country with tens of thousands of islands spread from Sabang, Aceh on the west and Merauke sides, Papua on the east side.

At first glance, the two songs do have something in common with the initial verse of the song, at least in the first two.

However, the deletion of the words in the lyrics of the two songs is different. The two early birations of La Marseillaise consist of 17 terms, while from Sabang to Merauke consists of 16 terms.

Allons fant de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arriv\'e, the initial two rows of La Marseillaise.

From Sabang to Merauke, the islands lined up, the initial two lines of the song From Sabang to Merauke sound.

The resemblance of the two songs cannot be called plagiarism. In detail, the two are different. Moreover, the similarities are only in two biramas.

Apart from Sabang to Merauke, the initial two birations of La Marseillaise are also included in the intro of The Beatles' song All You Need Is Love.

Before entering the song's first verse, the song, which was released in 1967, granted the La Marseillaise melody.