Indonesia’s vast archipelagic landscape, home to hundreds of distinct cultural communities, has fostered a sprawling, diverse lineage of creative sonic expression that forms a foundational pillar of the global world music canon, a category that centers creative works tied to their specific geographic and cultural origins, prioritizing the preservation and celebration of regional traditions that carry unique layers of shared history, identity, and communal meaning. World music as a framework exists to push back against the homogenization of mainstream global music, amplifying works that carry the specific imprint of their home contexts, allowing audiences across the world to engage with sonic traditions that emerge from places and communities outside of the dominant Western music industry that has long shaped global cultural consumption and the types of creative work that receive widespread international attention.