The creative community of Indonesian creators working within the global world music space has spent decades shaping and expanding the genre, bringing place-based sonic traditions to audiences around the world, and contributing to a far more diverse, representative global sonic landscape than existed before the category of world music emerged to center work outside of dominant commercial mainstream spheres. Selamat Berpisah emerges from this rich lineage of Indonesian creative output, a sound rooted in the cultural context of the archipelago that has long been one of the most vibrant and prolific sources of work within the world music genre.