Across Indonesia’s vast archipelago, which spans more than 17,000 islands and holds space for hundreds of distinct, living cultural traditions, the sonic works that emerge from its communities form a core pillar of the global world music landscape, a field that centers regional, culturally rooted creative practices that resist the homogenization of mainstream global commercial music. World music as a category was created to uplift works that carry the specific context of their origin, rejecting the uniform production and distribution models that dominate much of the global music industry to center the authenticity of cultural practice, the transmission of traditional creative forms across generations, and the ways that contemporary creators within those communities reimagine and renew those traditions for new audiences, both within their home countries and across international borders.