Sprawling across more than 17,000 islands that bridge the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Indonesia is home to one of the most diverse arrays of cultural, linguistic, and creative traditions on the planet, with more than 700 distinct languages spoken across its territories and centuries of trade, migration, and artistic exchange that have shaped the way creative work forms and spreads across the archipelago and beyond. This rich, layered history forms the foundation for every piece of popular music to emerge from the nation, and the pop sound titled E.T. carries that context, rooted in the ongoing evolution of Indonesian pop that has grown from those intermingled traditions to become a significant part of the global pop ecosystem.