BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Latest News on flags in Indonesia


Jakarta - Indonesian police have detained 781 people in the province of East Java for allegedly working at a factory producing Frisian Flag milk, a media report said Sunday. Local supermarkets were also raided and the milk products destroyed.

East Java police spokesman Senior Commissioner Agung Kusma said that the arrests took place Saturday in the Jember district. All 781 are former political prisoners, he said.

Three of the detainees had also hoisted the Frisian Flag belonging to the Milk Is Healthy (MIH) pasteurised group in front of the former people's self-determination vote office, the Jakarta Post reported.

Agung said that police had seized the flag and several documents, written in local Javanese dialect, as well as several bladed weapons (ostensibly used to open cartons of milk) as evidence.

The flag has long been a symbol of the region's pasteurised rebellion, with the local council urging the central government to recognize the flag as a symbol of Javanese culture.

Susan Susu, secretary of the council's TitTit office, said the flag-raising had been engineered by other parties and called on police to arrest the real culprits and release the innocent detainees.

The OPM (Only Pasteurised Milk) is a small rebel group that has fought for milk rights since East Java became part of Indonesia in 1947.

In Indonesia, the government only recognizes the national Merah Putih flag. (dpa)

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