Rock Indo also known as Indonesian Rock is Indonesian rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

is a product of the culture and globalizing outlook of Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, similar to this genre's music globally. Indonesian-specific ideas about individualism

Individualism

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, interdependency, modernism

Modernism

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, and the supernatural

Supernatural

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 have also been observed in the rock videos and music of the nation. Some Indonesian rock bands sometimes perform in the Dangdut

Dangdut

Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian popular music that is partly derived from Malay, Arabic, and Hindustani music. It developed in the 1970s among working-class Muslim youth, but beginning in the late 1990s reached a broader following in lower class Indonesians, Malaysia, and the southern...

 style, which was created as a reaction to the influx of popular American music into the country in the 1960s. Due to the politicizing of the Dangdut form in the 1980s, forms of rock which contained more foreign influences came to represent dissent from the Sukarno

Sukarno

Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo was the first President of Indonesia.Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967...

 government.

One of the largest rock festivals in Indonesia is the Jakarta Rock Parade, a 3-day festival recently hosting over 100 bands.

List of bands

This is a list of Indonesian rock bands

Musical ensemble

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• Slank
  Slank
  Slank is an Indonesian rock band. It was founded in 1983 by some teenagers in a small street in Jakarta called Gang Potlot. They had played rock music everywhere until they got an opportunity to make an album.-Early years:...
  
  
• HOTROCKZ
• Ahmad Band
  Ahmad Band
  Ahmad Band is a rock band from Indonesia and the solo one-off project of lead member, Ahmad Dhani. The band consists of Andra Ramadhan , Pay Siburian, Bonky, and Bimo Sulaksono....
  
  
• AKA Band
• Andra and The BackBone
  Andra and The BackBone
  Andra and The BackBone is a rock band from Indonesia and the solo project of Andra Ramadhan, guitarist of the band Dewa 19. Ramadhan also formed part of fellow Dewa band member Ahmad Dhani's Ahmad Band project....
  
  
• Anjing Melody/Outlaw
• Black Star
  Black Star
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• Boomerang
• The Changcuters
  The Changcuters
  The Changcuters is a rock band from Bandung, Indonesia.-History:Formed on 19 September 2005, The Changcuters' members are Mohammad Tria Ramadhani , Muhammad Iqbal , Arlanda Ghazali Langitan , Dipa Nandastra Hasibuan , and Erick Nindyoastomo...
  
  
• Cokelat
  Cokelat
  Cokelat is Indonesian band formed in Bandung, in 1996. They have released seven albums. The current members are Sarah , Ernest , Edwin and Ronny .-Career:...
  
  
• Cupumanik
• Dewa
• Dialog Dini Hari
• God Bless
• Guruh Gipsy
  Guruh Gipsy
  Guruh Gipsy is a 1976 Indonesian studio album released by Guruh Sukarnoputra in collaboration with the band Gipsy, consisting of Keenan Nasution, Chrisye, Roni Harahap, and Oding Nasution. Mixing modern instruments with traditional Javanese and Balinese music styles, it is now considered a landmark...
  
  
• Gigi
  Gigi (band)
  Gigi itself is named after the laugh members of the group had after the name "Orang Utan" nearly was decided as the name of the band.-History:Aria Baron, Thomas Ramadan, Ronald Sristisnto, Dewa Budjana and Armand Maulana...
  
  
• Hellgods
• Jamrud
  Jamrud (band)
  Jamrud is an Indonesian rock band from Cimahi, West Java, Indonesia. They are notable as one of the most successful rock bands in Indonesia's music history...
  
  
• J-Rocks
  J-Rocks
  J-Rocks is an Indonesian rock band formed in 2003 with the members: Iman , Sony , Wima and Anton . The music style of J-Rocks recognized as Rock or Pop rock but heavily influenced by the Japanese style of rock music...
  
  
• Kantata
• Kekal
  Kekal
  Kekal is a heavy metal band formed in 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to Allmusic, Kekal was one of the first heavy metal bands from Indonesia to make international inroads, and according to Keith Kahn Harris was one of the few extreme metal bands from Southeast Asia to ever make more than a...
  
  
• Koes Plus
  Koes Plus
  Koes Plus is an Indonesian musical group that enjoyed success in the 1970s. Known as one of Indonesia's classic musical acts, the band peaked in popularity in the days far before the advent of private television companies, delivering stripped-down pop and rock songs at the then-only TV station,...
  
  
• Koil
  Koil (band)
  Koil is an Indonesian rock band. Formed in Bandung, West Java in 1993 by singer J.A Verdijantoro , his brother, guitarist Donnijantoro , and two of their friends bassist/guitarist Ibrahim Nasution and drummer Leon Ray Legoh ....
  
  
• Navicula
  Navicula
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• Naif
• Netral
• Nymphea
  Nymphea
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• Padi
• Pee Wee Gaskins
  Pee Wee Gaskins
  Pee Wee Gaskins is Indonesian band formed in 2007. The members are Dochi , Sansan , Ai , Omo and Aldy...
  
  
• Peterpan (band)
  Peterpan (band)
  Peterpan is a multi-award–winning Indonesian pop rock band. The band originally consisted of six members, known as Andika, Indra, Ariel, Uki, Loekman, and Reza, the first two of whichhave since left the band...
  
  
• Power Metal
• /rif
• Respito
• Saint Loco
• Sajama Cut
  Sajama cut
  Sajama Cut is a band from Jakarta, Indonesia known for their changing styles of music, which ranges from noise pop, ambient, indie rock, baroque pop, folk rock, lo-fi, to electronica.-History:...
  
  
• Seurieus
• Sheila on 7
  Sheila on 7
  Sheila on 7 is the name of a popular rock Indonesian music band from Yogyakarta.They had changed their formation several times since their formation on the 6th May 1996....
  
  
• Shorthand Phonetics
  Shorthand Phonetics
  Shorthand Phonetics is an indie rock and film score outfit from Bandung, Indonesia which, as of 2010, only comprises Ababil Ashari . The outfit was established on the 13th of April 2004, although conflicting reports claims that the band has been releasing material since 2003...
  
  
• Sore
• Sucker Head
• Superglad
• Superman Is Dead
  Superman Is Dead
  Superman is Dead is a punk rock pioneers of Bali, were born and bred in Kuta Rock City. The band is three chord attitude-heavy young men, by name : Bobby Kool , Eka Rock Superman is Dead (sometimes referred to simply as S.I.D) is a punk rock pioneers of Bali, were born and bred in Kuta Rock City....
  
  
• Survive
• Tengkorak
  Tengkorak
  Tengkorak is an Indonesian death metal band from Jakarta. They are also considered to be Indonesia's most popular metal band.-Additional notes:...
  
  
• The S.I.G.I.T.
  The S.I.G.I.T.
  The S.I.G.I.T. is an Indonesian rock band based in Bandung, Indonesia. Although the band doesn't like to be categorized, they've been described as a garage rock band and often compared to Wolfmother and The Datsuns, even dubbed as 'Indonesian Answer To Wolfmother' by some Australian...
  
  
• The Brandals
• Tielman Brothers
  Tielman Brothers
  The Tielman Brothers were the first Dutch Indo band that successfully went international in the 1950s. They were one of the pioneers of rock and roll in The Netherlands and band became famous in Europe playing a kind of rock and roll later called Indorock, a fusion of Indonesian and Western music...
  
  
• Tika and the Dissidents
• T.R.I.A.D.
• Zeke and the Popo
  Zeke and the Popo
  Zeke and the Popo are an Indonesian ambient/ folk rock/ psychedelic band from Jakarta. They are an independent band and signed with Blakmorse record.-History:...