Last updated on January 1, 2019
Penari Betawi or Betawi Dancer dance along the Tanjidor Band, the traditional Jakarta music style that has its origin from the dutch.
Tanjidor Band consists here of trumpet, saxophone, trombone, clarinet, horn, bass, cymbal and kettle drum. Tanjidor takes its name from the Portuguese word tangedor (player), a derivative of tanger meaning ‘to make a twang’ (as on the guitar). The Portuguese, from the sixteenth century, were a prevailing colonial influence in Indonesia until the Dutch took over a century later. In the Dutch colonial period, like in post-Independence times, tanjidor was usually associated with outdoor music appropriate to a procession and or military display, the kind of music played by brass bands.
Photography by Iwan Ariawan