Rooted in the Indonesian creative continuum that feeds global explorations of cultural sonic expression, Retak occupies a distinct space within the global field of world music, a category that centers works emerging from specific, location-specific cultural traditions that carry the weight, nuance, and specificity of their origin points while resonating with audiences far beyond the geographic borders that gave them shape. World music as a categorical framework exists to elevate works that grow out of Indigenous, regional, and community-rooted creative practices that might otherwise be sidelined by mainstream global music industries, centering the cultural specificity that infuses every choice that goes into shaping a sound, rather than forcing those works to fit into narrow, Western-centric genre boxes that erase their core identity.