Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of more than seventeen thousand islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world’s largest island country and the 14th-largest country by land area, with more than 270 million people. Indonesia is the world’s fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world’s most populous island, is home to more than half of the country’s population.

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Each of the many Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character. The most popular and famous form of Indonesian music is gamelan, an ensemble of tuned percussion instruments that include metallophones, drums, gongs and spike fiddles along with bamboo flutes. Similar ensembles are prevalent throughout Indonesia and Malaysia; however, gamelan is originated from Java, Bali, and Lombok.

Resource: Music of Indonesia – Wikipedia