Pongki Barata Raises Copyright Problems Through Single Titled Derita Creator

Pongki Barata (Instagram @pongki_barata)

JAKARTA - Pongki Barata introduced his new single entitled 'Derita Creator'. This song is inspired by the Indonesian music ecosystem which is felt to require many improvements related to copyright.

"The song 'Derita Creator' was created to pay attention to the phenomenon of copyright cases in Indonesia, especially songwriters," Pongki said, citing an Instagram upload, Thursday, November 14.

"To remind again that you still have a lot of homework, both musicians, and also all music industry players, so that the music ecosystem we have can be the best benefit for each party."

Not only as a songwriter, the former Jikustik vocalist is also a producer for his new song. He was also assisted by Iwan Tanda, guitarist and songwriter from The Rain.

Pongki also gave a further explanation of the meaning of his new song. He didn't want any listeners to be wrong in understanding the "Derita Creator".

The 46-year-old musician shared an explanation through a video uploaded to his Instagram account.

"Regarding my latest release, 'Derita Creator', which turned out to get a lot of positive responses and wrong responses by some friends, hopefully this doesn't get prolonged and doesn't get in the wrong direction," Pongki said.

The song 'Derita Creator' which I just released, is intended as a mirror for me personally at least, that there are still many problems in the world of the music industry," he continued.

Pongki did not direct the lyrics of the song for musicians who still often performed song covers, attacked certain songwriters, especially attacking the music industry as a whole.

He wanted to illustrate that the music industry still needs to improve itself.

"Actually, I really don't like using the phrase 'let's come', but let's work together to fix all of this, in the best way we can afford it."