Slank Personnel Express Hope For The Indonesian Music Industry

Slank (Ivan Two Men/VOI)

JAKARTA - Slank as the band best known in Indonesia has been running for more than four decades. The band based in Gang Potlot has gone through various kinds of things.

Currently, Slank personnel can be said to have achieved everything, but they still have high hopes for the music industry as a whole.

Kaka (vocals) see that the current color of Indonesian music is very diverse. Various music genres have sprung up and have their own listeners.

He sees that Indonesia's music climate is getting better and hopes that what is there can continue.

"Indonesian music is already diverse, there are various kinds of taste, want to look for Indonesian music with any genre, not only pop and rock, there is a new genre," said Kaka in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Tuesday, October 29.

"It proves that Indonesian music has a good climate," he continued.

Responding to what the vocalist said, Bimbim (drums) felt that Indonesia should have more performance venues to accommodate musicians in displaying their work.

"Hopefully there will be many (big) concert venues in Indonesia. Because the concerts there (outside Jakarta) are busy coming," said Bimbim.

Ridho (guitar) agrees with what Bimbim said. According to him, the show industry in the country is progressing.

With the existing developments, he said Slank even had to continue to develop himself to balance many young musicians today.

"Our show industry is really cool. Make me a benchmark too. We can't judge that our band is the one above, no, we also have to be up to date," said Ridho.

Summarizing what three colleagues said, Ivanka (bass) expressed his hopes and belief that the Indonesian music industry should be getting better

"I'm sure that in the future, with the current governance of our music industry, we will be even better," concluded Ivanka.