Larut sits within the expansive global classification of pop music, a category that unites sounds crafted for broad, accessible audience engagement, while anchoring itself firmly to the creative context of Indonesia, the Southeast Asian nation whose musical output draws from the cultural breadth of its thousands of inhabited islands, each with distinct artistic traditions that feed into the country’s contemporary popular music landscape. Classifications of popular music from Indonesia exist as a bridge between the long, layered history of community-focused, ritual, and folk music practices that have shaped creative expression across the archipelago for centuries, and the global forces that have shaped pop music across every region of the world, as creators working within Indonesian pop draw on both local cultural touchstones and international pop frameworks to create work that resonates both within Indonesia’s borders and beyond.