Stretching across more than seventeen thousand islands, home to hundreds of distinct ethnic groups and a thousand years of layered creative lineage, Indonesia has cultivated one of the most diverse bodies of sonic expression in the world, a body of work that has long found a receptive home and critical framing within the global umbrella of world music, a category that exists to center creative works rooted in specific geographic, cultural, and communal traditions that fall outside the homogenized mainstream of global commercial music.