World Music as a classification has long served to center culturally specific sonic practices that carry the weight of regional heritage, community storytelling, and the lived experiences of creators whose work is rooted in places that shape every layer of their craft. This classification does not flatten the wide range of practices it encompasses, but rather creates a framework through which audiences can engage with work that draws from the specific histories and identities of the regions that spawn it. Across the breadth of global World Music, few national contexts are as rich and multifaceted as Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of distinct islands that each hold their own cultural practices, linguistic traditions, and sonic legacies that feed into the body of work that circulates under the World Music umbrella.