MALANG, East Java: As a convoy of about 30 trucks rolled into the tiny farming village of Jeru in East Java’s Malang regency last month, residents began streaming out of their homes with a mix of ...

As with most things in life today, it began around two years ago with a string of viral videos on social media. The videos, which first introduced people to the trend, showed a stack of loudspeakers ...

A towering wall of speakers on wheels, shaking everything in sight: In many Javanese villages, there’s no big celebration without one. Trucks known as sound horegs — from a Javanese word that means ...

Sound horeg, a term for very loud music systems often used in public performances. Doc. Shutterstock Cholil explained that the East Java branch of the MUI has already issued a fatwa, or religious ...

The Law Ministry’s East Java regional office has raised a plan to grant intellectual property rights for the horeg sound system for its creative content and industrial design. The plan was first ...

The practice of blasting towering speakers stacked on trucks and boats in Indonesia to celebrate events ranging from weddings to national holidays is increasingly drawing a chorus of public ...

Minister of Creative Economy Teuku Riefky Harsya has delegated the regulations on 'sound horeg' activity to regional governments. According to him, this activity is a form of local wisdom. "It's a ...