New York Punk Band Includes Photos Of Affan Kurniawan And Munir On Cover Album

Cover the Haram album (Instagram @dsstruccs)

Haram, a punk hardcore band based in Brooklyn, New York, USA, features the faces of the late Affan Kurniawan and Munir Said Talib on the cover of his latest album, Why Doesn't Paradise Begin in Hell?.

This was revealed through photos uploaded by Disaster Records, a record label based in Bandung, on their official Instagram account.

In the album cover in cassette format, you can see an image of an Indonesian map, where on the right side there are photos of Affan and Munir.

The album cover, which was created following the color of the Indonesian flag, also contains a slogan: 'Free from suffering. Freedom from corruption.'

In the caption of the upload, Disaster Records referred to Haram as: Band hardcore punk from Brooklyn which is known for blending 80s of hardcore music that booms with Arabic lyrics and refugee theme, resistance, and identity.

Their collaborative energy and political urgency have made them vital voices in the DIY (Do It Yourself) music scene in New York, "wrote Disaster Records, citing an upload caption, Wednesday, September 17.

Meanwhile, the album 'Why Doesn' Paradise Begin in Hell?' presents 12 tracks with no compromise intensity available in cassette form.

Affan Kurniawan himself is known as an online motorcycle taxi driver (ojol) who died during a demonstration in Jakarta on August 28. He died after being hit and run over by a police car.

Meanwhile, Munir Said Talib is known as a human rights activist (HAM) after Indonesia's reform, who died after being poisoned on his way to a study in the Netherlands.

However, photos of Affan and Munir appear to be only available on the cover of the album being circulated in Indonesia.

The cover shown by Disaster Records is very different from what was shown in the upload on the official Instagram account of Haram.

In the US, Haram released Why Doesn' Paradise Begin in Hell? on September 11, coinciding with the 9/11 Serangan commemoration, where there was a suicide attack that had been set against several targets in New York City and Washington, DC in 2001.