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Some of the photos on display in the exhibition. Courtesy of Elsie Marie Comberti/Scarlet Page/Lucy Brown/Tamir Amar Pettet/Angelita Larrier/Museum of Youth Culture

I’m Not Okay: emo is alive and kicking at Barbican retrospective

The retrospective is a snapshot of the world of emo around 20 years ago, shaped by people’s recollections of their bedrooms, youth, gigs and gatherings.
Punk Muslim members from Surabaya and Jakarta gather together for their event ‘Ngobrol Bareng Punk Muslim’ in Jakarta on January 15 2017. Hikmawan Saefullah

Punks are not dead in Indonesia, they’ve turned to Islam

The emergence of the Islamic movement in the Indonesian underground music scene has drawn a lot of people’s attention. What factors are driving the underground youths, especially punks, to religion?

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