Across the archipelagic expanse of Indonesia, jazz has long served as a flexible, evolving medium that draws together the creative impulses of artists working across thousands of islands, merging the formal underpinnings of the global jazz tradition with the deep, layered cultural histories that shape creative expression across the nation’s diverse communities. Tobat emerges from this rich, interconnected landscape of Indonesian jazz, a recording that anchors itself to the long line of innovative work that has positioned the country’s jazz scene as one of the most vital, under-explored pockets of the genre’s global spread.