To engage with a work like Menyesal is to step into the vast, interconnected web of global sonic practice that world music curates, a framework that lifts up creative expression rooted in specific cultural geographies while inviting audiences to sit with the nuance of work that emerges from contexts far removed from the mainstream pop and experimental circuits that dominate most Western music discourse. This sound, rooted in the Indonesian archipelago, carries within it all the weight and specificity of the creative lineage that shapes Indonesian sonic life, a lineage that stretches across thousands of islands and hundreds of distinct cultural communities, each weaving their own relationship to sound, storytelling, and collective expression into every work they bring forward.