Fadli Zon Wants To Present More Stages For Senior Indonesian Musicians

Fadli Zon and musicians from the 60s era (Ivan Two Men/VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Culture, Fadli Zon wants to encourage appreciation for senior Indonesian musicians by presenting more bigger music events and stages.

It is known that Fadli and his staff had just held a tribute performance featuring musicians and singers from the 1960s era at Building A of the Ministry of Culture, Central Jakarta on Tuesday, December 24.

"I think this is just the beginning. Later we will make more events and collaborate with singer and musician artists who can still work today," said Fadli, after the event.

"We will set up a bigger stage with this tribute, with more involved being able to take part," he continued.

By presenting senior musicians, said Fadli, not only to reminisce, but also to see the values and struggles that have been carried out by Indonesian artists and cultural observers.

"Now, they are still present in our midst, of course we must respect and appreciate. And I think it is also necessary for them to be able to provide the values of struggle and experience from the past to future generations," he said.

Furthermore, Fadli also wants better archives of Indonesian musical works. He believes that Indonesia and its music industry have many works that can be shown to the world community.

"We are working on (the filing). Later there will also be a kind of encyclopedi for Indonesian disks and Indonesian music cassettes, so that everything has a database, therefore the number is thousands, even up to tens of thousands," concluded Fadli.