Anugerah Musik Indonesia (in English

English language

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: Indonesian Music Awards), also known as AMI or colloquially AMI Awards is an annual Indonesia

Indonesia

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n major music

Music

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 awards. They have been compared to the American Grammy Awards.

History

The awards were formalized as the Indonesian Music Awards in 1997 as a joint project between ASIRI (Recording Industry Association of Indonesia), PAPPRI (Singers, Songwriters, and Music Record Producers Association of Indonesia), and KCI (Copyright Office of Indonesia).

Organization

Each of the the three founding organizations originally contributed one board member, under the direction of Indonesian country singer

Country music

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 Tantowi Yahya

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. Under this board was another, less powerful board. There are afterwards further divisions based on specialty, including Marketing, Communication, and Membership.

The 14th Anugerah Musik Indonesia took place on July 6th, 2011 in Jakarta

Jakarta

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List of awards

Year	Date	Venue	City	Ref.
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006	20 December 2006		Jakarta
2007	Not held
2008
2009	24 April	Balai Sarbini	Jakarta
2010	9 June	Mangga Dua	Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
2011

Award Categories

The AMI are awarded in a series of categories, each of which isolate a specific contribution to music. AMI categories have been added and removed over time. The 2010 awards had 35 categories, while the 2011 awards had 46.

Reception

The Beat magazine describes the AMI's as "the Grammy's a la Indonesia".

See also

• Music of Indonesia
  Music of Indonesia
  The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character. This...
  
  
• AMI Awards 2006
• AMI Awards 2008
• AMI Awards 2009
• AMI Awards 2010
• AMI Awards 2011
  AMI Awards 2011
  AMI Awards 2011 is a part of Indonesia Music Awarding, Anugerah Musik Indonesia, held on 6 July 2011 in Jakarta for fourteen times. This year, AMI presented 46 categories for Indonesian music people from all part....
  
  

External Links

• AMI Awards 2008 Siap Digelar, Antara News, 11/04/08