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 ...
‘Does it need to be so loud?’: Indonesia’s earsplitting sound horeg trucks leave communities divided
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 ...
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The Secretary General of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Amirsyah Sanusi Tambunan, stated that the use of "sound horeg," an excessively loud music system, could be considered haram, or forbidden, ...
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